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Seven members of the Legislative Assembly in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, have urged local law enforcement to investigate an attack on LGBT activists.
A Russian activist in the southern region of Krasnodar jailed for propagating extremism and separatism online has started a hunger strike in custody, her mother says.
Russian activists picketed the presidential office building in Moscow to protest a court decision to deport a Russian-born journalist to Uzbekistan.
A Chechen official has rejected a report by a respected Russian newspaper that 27 Chechens had been executed without trial.
Residents of the Taimyr Peninsula in northern Russia are calling for a referendum that would restore the area's former status as an autonomous region.
One of several activists imprisoned following clashes at a protest on the eve of President Vladimir Vladimir Putin's inauguration to his current term has been released after serving a 38-month sentence.
Dozens of would-be homeowners who made down payments a decade ago on apartments that were never completed have started a hunger strike in the Russian city of Novosibirsk.
Police in the Siberian city of Kemerovo have dispersed a rally being held in support of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, who is bidding to run in next year’s presidential election.
A Russian opposition activist who is in prison after being convicted of assaulting police during a protest has started a hunger strike.
Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow on July 23 to protest Internet censorship and demand the resignation of the head of Russia's state media regulator.
Municipal authorities in the Czech capital, Prague, have decided not to rehang a memorial plaque honoring the Soviet marshal who participated in the city's liberation at the end of World War II following the ongoing restoration of the Old City Hall.
A Moscow court has ordered Russian opposition political activist and anticorruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny and two co-defendants in a high-profile embezzlement case to pay 2.1 million rubles (about $35,500) in damages to a lumber company.
Russian journalist, activist, and Internet pioneer Anton Nosik has been buried in Moscow.
Police in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk have detained a local coordinator of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's presidential election campaign and confiscated campaign materials.
A Russian court has reduced by more than a year a suspended sentence handed down to a blogger convicted of inciting hatred and insulting religious believers' feelings through online videos, including one showing him playing Pokemon Go in a church.
The Bolshoi Theatre has called off the world premiere of Nureyev, a ballet about a famous Russian dancer, just days before it was to take place.
Well-known Russian journalist, blogger, and Internet pioneer Anton Nosik has died in Moscow at the age of 51.
Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, citing two unidentified sources, has reported that security forces in Chechnya summarily executed 27 people on the night of January 26.
Russian police on July 7 briefly detained the coordinator of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's campaign office in the city of Perm, just hours before Navalny was scheduled to be released from jail.
At least 14 people died, two of them children, in a collision between a truck and a bus near the city of Zainsk in Russia's Tatarstan region, authorities say.
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