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Russian authorities have not acknowledged that two purported IS captives are Russians, but a family member says one of them was fighting for a private military-contracting agency.
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year prison term in Russia, has said he believes he will be transferred to Russia's northernmost prison camp near the village of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenetsk Autonomous Region.
Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny met with residents in Orenburg in the Urals on September 30 as part of his campaign for the March 2018 presidential election.
Busts of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and the founder of the Soviet Union Vladimir Lenin have been unveiled in downtown Moscow.
Russian authorities say they have apprehended three men suspected of involvement in an arson attack on cars outside the Moscow office of lawyers for the director of Matilda, a film that has drawn sharp criticism from radical Russian Orthodox and monarchist fringe groups.
With a sprinkle of holy water and a protester condemning the late Mikhail Kalashnikov as a "manufacturer of death," Russian authorities unveiled a monument to the designer of the widely used AK-47 assault rifle.
Russian opposition activist Sergei Udaltsov has been detained by Moscow police while protesting in front of the State Duma, Russia's lower chamber of parliament.
Ukrainian writer and filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who is jailed in Russia over his opposition to Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, has been transferred from a penal colony in Yakutsk to a notorious detention center in the city of Irkutsk, some 1,900 kilometers away.
Dozens of French cultural figures have gathered in Paris to call for the release of acclaimed film director Kirill Serebrennikov, who is under house arrest in Russia and faces embezzlement charges.
An activist who is serving time over Internet posts criticizing Russia's actions in Ukraine is being mistreated in prison, her mother says.
The southern Russian town of Beslan has begun three days of mourning to mark the 13th anniversary of a school hostage-taking attack that ended with 334 people dead after a botched rescue, including 186 children.
More than 30 cultural figures from different countries have signed a petition calling on Russian authorities to drop the criminal investigation into prominent theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov.
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is also a former governor of Ukraine's Odesa region, has accused the authorities of Georgia and Ukraine of planning to accuse him of planning a coup in Georgia.
The last Russian activist imprisoned following clashes at a protest on the eve of President Vladimir Putin's inauguration to his current term has been released after serving his 30-month sentence.
Kirill Serebrennikov, a prominent Moscow theater figure who has protested against the government, has been indicted on embezzlement charges.
A small group of opposition activists in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don have held a protest calling for the regular turnover of political power.
The Arbitration Court of Moscow has declined to place a freeze on gas turbines manufactured by the German firm Siemens that were transferred to the illegally annexed region of Crimea earlier this year.
A knife-wielding man went on a stabbing rampage in the Russian city of Surgut on August 19, wounding seven people before he was shot dead by police, investigators say.
A senor official in Russia's Chechnya region has issued an assurance that a prominent singer whom relatives have not seen in 10 days is safe and will "appear soon."
A Russian nationalist activist has been charged in absentia with making public calls for extremist activities.
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