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Jury deliberations in the Moscow trial of five men from the Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya who are charged in connection with the 2015 killing of opposition politician and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov have been suspended until next week.
A German family whose abortive move to Siberia to escape "sexual permissiveness" in the West mulls another try at Russian life.
A request by Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's jailed brother to have his sentence mitigated has been rejected by a court.
A Russian court has sentenced opposition leader Aleksei Navalny to 30 days in jail for staging unsanctioned rallies at which an estimated 1,150 anticorruption protesters were detained.
A Chechen man who was returned to Russia by Belarusian authorities, despite warnings that he could be tortured or killed by Chechen authorities, was released from custody in Grozny late on June 9 on his own recognizance.
Belarusian authorities have sent a man who is wanted in Chechnya back to Russia despite pleas from relatives and warnings from human rights activists that he could be tortured or killed by Chechen law-enforcement authorities.
Police have detained at least three people as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Russian parliament during a vote on a controversial plan to raze thousands of Soviet-era apartment blocs in Moscow.
Eight Russians have announced a hunger strike at a Moscow branch of Austria's Raiffeisenbank.
Several hundred people rallied outside the Russian parliament on June 6 to protest a plan to demolish Soviet-era low-rise apartment blocks.
A native of Chechnya who claimed in 2013 that he was tortured by police has managed to narrowly escape transfer to Grozny, the Chechen capital, following his release from custody in Russia's Bryansk region, a rights group says.
The deputy governor of Russia's Kursk Oblast has been arrested on suspicion of corruption.
A man in the Russian region of Tatarstan has been awarded compensation after a court found that he had been tortured by police.
A Chechen man who claimed in 2013 that he was tortured by police has been detained in Russia's Bryansk region.
A Chechen man whom Russian authorities accuse of plotting to kill President Vladimir Putin was shot and wounded in Kyiv in what Ukrainian police say was an assassination attempt.
A Russian court has ordered the release of an activist who was forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital in 2015 after making online calls for the establishment of a "Urals people's republic."
A Moscow court has ruled in favor of Kremlin-connected oligarch Alisher Usmanov in his defamation lawsuit against opposition politician and anticorruption activist Aleksei Navalny.
A Russian judge has rejected a series of legal motions filed by anticorruption activist Aleksei Navalny, as a defamation lawsuit filed by Kremlin-connected oligarch Alisher Usmanov got under way.
A Moscow court has begun hearings in the case of a defamation lawsuit filed by Kremlin-connected oligarch Alisher Usmanov against opposition politician and anticorruption activist Aleksei Navalny.
The head of Russia's renowned Bolshoi Theater has sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin criticizing the treatment of a prominent director who was subjected to searches and questioning in an embezzlement investigation.
Investigators searched a Moscow theater and the home of a prominent director who has attended antigovernment protests and voiced concern about the increasing influence of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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