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A Moscow court on December 17 released a Russian man who was jailed after taking part in a stunt in the Russian capital as part of a pro-Ukraine demonstration.
At least 33 people, including the leader of Russia's opposition Yabloko party, have been detained by police at an unsanctioned rally in the center of Moscow to mark the Constitution Day holiday.
Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov will lead Russia's democratic opposition in the country's 2016 parliamentary elections.
Russia's Justice Ministry has placed the Mashr (Peace) human rights organization in the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia on its official register of organizations "operating as foreign agents."
A group of ethnic Poles from Ukraine's conflict-torn eastern region of Donetsk has arrived in Poland.
Special security forces have been deployed to a town in Russia's Siberian region of Irkutsk following clashes between local residents and soldiers.
Russia's Justice Ministry has accused the prominent nongovernmental organization Memorial of "undermining the foundations of the constitutional order of the Russian Federation."
A court in Moscow has sentenced four employees of Moscow's subway system after finding them guilty of violating safety regulations in connection with a 2014 accident that killed two dozen people.
A lawyer for the family of Boris Nemtsov says investigators have charged a member of Chechnya’s security forces in connection with the murder of the slain Russian opposition leader.
Since 1991, October 30 has been an official state day of remembrance for victims of political repression in Russia. However, in recent years the event has gotten very little official attention as efforts to rehabilitate the reputation of Soviet leader Josef Stalin have gained momentum.
Activists gathered near the former KGB headquarters in Moscow to honor the memory of thousands of men and women executed by Soviet authorities during Josef Stalin's "Great Terror."
Opposition activists in Moscow have unveiled a monument to slain opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.
A lawmaker in Russia's northwestern Pskov region known for his relentless criticism of the Kremlin has been expelled from the local legislature, a move denounced by the opposition as politically motivated.
A lawyer representing a group of Russian soldiers who were said to have refused to be deployed secretly to Syria says authorities have warned his clients that they could face treason charges.
The governor of Russia's northwestern Komi region has been arrested on charges of fraud and heading a criminal gang.
Prominent Soviet and Russian pro-democracy politician and historian Yury Afanasyev has died in Moscow at the age of 81.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree approving a citizenship application from famed U.S. boxer Roy Jones.
Police in the central Russian region of Kostroma say they have confiscated 2 million rubles ($30,000) from an activist of the Open Russia nongovernmental organization.
Police in Moscow have detained nationalist activist Dmitry Demushkin on charges of posting to social media a video containing a symbol of the banned Slavyansky Soyuz (Slavic Union) organization.
The widow and sons of Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn have published an open letter to a self-proclaimed Stalinist who desecrated a monument to the writer in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok.
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