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Russia is holding a massive military exercise in the eastern part of the country. Moscow claims as many as 300,000 troops are taking part in military maneuvers known as Vostok-2018.
Russian police used force to break up peaceful protests across the country on September 9. Thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against planned pension reforms that would raise the retirement age. Some protesters were beaten and more than 1,000 people were detained, including children.
More than 1,000 people were reportedly detained as thousands of anti-Kremlin demonstrators took to the streets in Russia to protest the government's plan to raise the retirement age in rallies coinciding with regional and local elections nationwide.
Voters in regions across Russia head to the polls on September 9 for regional and local elections being held in an atmosphere of unusual public discontent sparked by a controversial government plan to raise retirement ages.
A group of pro-Kremlin nationalist activists attacked two volunteers who were guarding a makeshift memorial on the Moscow bridge where former First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov was shot dead.
Moscow resident Grigory Gasparyan received a chilling phone call: Accept $100,000 to stop a campaign against construction of luxury apartments, or we'll kill you.
Thousands of people across Russia have protested against a deeply unpopular pension reform, despite concessions offered recently by President Vladimir Putin.
Tens of thousands of people gathered on September 2 in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to mourn a top rebel leader who was recently killed in a bomb attack.
Russian opposition activist Sergei Udaltsov has been hospitalized again as he continued a nearly two-week hunger strike in prison.
Police in Moscow on August 25 detained three people on Red Square commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1968 protest there against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions on several Russian nationals and companies as Washington warned it was ready to tighten the economic screws further on Moscow if it did not change its ways.
Two teenage girls charged with plotting to overthrow the Russian government were transfered from detention to house arrest. An agent for the FSB security service was a key organizer in their group.
Russian authorities have moved from jail to house arrest one of two teenagers detained on charges of "involvement in a terrorist community” in a case set up by an undercover law enforcement officer, Russian news agencies report.
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, imprisoned by Russia, has gained global attention. But another Ukrainian was in the dock with him: Oleksandr Kolchenko is serving a 10-year sentence in Siberia.
Russian investigators have asked a Moscow court to transfer to house arrest a pair of Russian teenagers detained on charges of "involvement in a terrorist community” that had been set up by an undercover Federal Security Service (FSB) agent.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has allowed a member of Russia's Presidential Advisory Council On Human Rights to visit Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who has been on hunger strike in a Russian prison for the past three months.
The condition of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who has been on a hunger strike in a Russian prison for nearly three months, has worsened considerably, his lawyer and his cousin say.
Russian police detained have detained around 30 LGBT rights activists who took part in an unsanctioned rally in St. Petersburg.
Three people, including a top aide to Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, were released from custody after being arrested as thousands of people protested in central Moscow for a second day against a controversial plan to raise the retirement age.
Three people, including a top aide to Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, were arrested as thousands protested in central Moscow for a second consecutive day against a highly controversial plan to raise the retirement age.
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