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A court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya has sentenced two Ukrainian citizens to lengthy prison terms after they were found guilty of fighting alongside Chechen separatists in the 1990s.
Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky says he plans to give his Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent to a group of men jailed for a series of attacks against police.
A prosecutor in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya has called for two Ukrainian citizens convicted of fighting alongside Chechen separatists in the 1990s to be sentenced to at least 22 years in prison.
A court in Moscow has convicted performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky on charges of vandalism for a pro-Ukraine protest and has sentenced him to 16 months of "freedom limitation," which is similar to a suspended sentence with parole limitations.
Ukraine is commemorating on May 18 the victims of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's mass deportation of Tatars from Crimea in 1944.
Soviet-era dissident Vladimir Bukovsky has halted his hunger strike in Britain after a court in Cambridge on May 16 postponed hearings in the child pornography case against him.
Police in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya have reportedly surrounded a village as part of a search for a resident who posted a video on the Internet calling for help from Russian President Vladimir Putin against corrupt local officials.
A Georgian court has sentenced five former Defense Ministry officials to seven years each on charges of financial mismanagement.
A Russian opposition activist, who was forcibly admitted to a psychiatric clinic in the southwestern city of Voronezh, has been freed.
Moscow authorities have removed an improvised memorial near the Kremlin where Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was gunned down last year.
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."
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