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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.
Nikolai Kavkazsky, a key defendant in the series of trials against Russians who participated in a May 2012 demonstration at Moscow's Bolotnaya Square, has been attacked and beaten by two unknown assailants.
A Moscow court on September 10 acquitted four people and found one guilty of hooliganism and vandalism for taking part in a pro-Ukraine stunt.
Russian journalist Oleg Kashin has released the names of three men who have been charged with severely beating him in a 2010 attack in which he nearly died, and he expressed fears for his safety in connection with the influential figures he believes ordered the attack.
A Russian activist in the southern region of Krasnodar went on trial on September 3 on charges of propagating extremism and separatism via the Internet.
A Russian court has sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov to 20 years in prison for plotting "terrorist acts" in Crimea. His co-defendant, fellow Ukrainian Oleksandr Kolchenko, was sentenced to 10 years.
The chief editor of the opposition website Asia-Russia Today has been severely beaten by unknown attackers.
Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks has criticized Russian moves to ban 12 foreign organizations under a law lawmakers say is needed against "undesirable" groups that threaten Russia's security.
Investigators in Russia have increased the seriousness of charges against captive Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko, accusing her of direct participation in the killing of two Russian reporters.
A correspondent for a Russian newspaper that has challenged the Kremlin's narrative about the conflict in Ukraine says he was detained, struck in the face, and deported by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
At least 500 people have held a rare antiwar protest in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, Ukraine, calling on separatists to remove rocket launchers from residential neighborhoods where they provoke fire from government troops.
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