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A Russian opposition activist has been forcibly admitted to a psychiatric clinic in the southwestern city of Voronezh.
Russian rights defender Nadezhda Kutepova has received political asylum in France.
A well-known independent Russian journalist has been found dead in his apartment in St. Petersburg.
Jailed Russian activist Ildar Dadin has had his three-year prison sentence reduced by six months, Dadin's wife said on March 31.
The Russian Foreign Ministry's chief spokeswoman said that as a result of Russia's military action in Syria "the negotiating process has begun and a cease-fire on Syrian territory has begun."
A passenger airliner from Dubai has crashed and burned while trying to land at the airport in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, killing more than 60 people.
Russian police have detained an activist at an improvised memorial near the Kremlin where Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was gunned down last year.
Russia has sent hundreds of security forces to a town south of Moscow to disperse a rally by local Roma residents angry over a gas supply cutoff.
A leading Russian rights activist has been attacked by masked men in Grozny, pelted with eggs, paint, and a cake after he was evicted from the hotel he was staying in.
A spokesman for Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, says he has officially asked Russian prosecutors to open a criminal case against an opposition leader for "inciting ethnic and religious discord."
Russian activists in the city of St. Petersburg have staged an protest calling for the release of jailed Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko.
An organizer of an upcoming march to commemorate slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov has been severely beaten in Russia's Urals city of Chelyabinsk.
An improvised memorial near the Kremlin where Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was gunned down nearly a year ago has been vandalized for a fourth time since the beginning of the year.
At least seven people, including two children, have been killed by a gas explosion that ripped through a residential building in the central Russian city of Yaroslavl early on February 16.
A former Russian Interior Ministry officer who was sent to prison after claiming that soldiers were fed dog food has been released. He had served more than four years.
Russians with mortgages denominated in a foreign currency are continuing to protest at their banks to demand the loans be restructured following the collapse of Russia's ruble currency.
A court in Russia's northwestern city of Murmansk has fined a local activist for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights on charges of propagating "nontraditional sexual relations among minors."
The speaker of the rubber-stamp legislature of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya has issued a harsh statement accusing opposition figures and media of being "traitors" under the control of Western security agencies.
A noted Russian political analyst and journalist, Vladimir Pribylovsky, has reportedly been found dead at the age of 59.
Russia has expelled a Polish journalist days after Warsaw forced a Russian reporter out of the country.
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