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A Russian opposition activist sentenced to four and a half years in prison for assaulting police has cut his wrists to protest his incarceration.
A court in Moscow has convicted an opposition journalist on charges of terrorism and extremism, sentencing him to seven years in prison.
A senior Russian lawmaker says up to 400,000 people will be released, have suspended sentences voided, or have charges dropped under an amnesty timed to coincide with Victory Day celebrations next month marking the 70th anniversary of Nazi Germany's World War II defeat.
Exiled Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has condemned a police search of his Moscow-based organization and said he believes it was linked to a planned documentary about the Kremlin-backed leader of Russia's Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov.
Russian authorities have accused the Kremlin's opponents of plenty of misdeeds, but arson has not noticeably been among them -- until now.
The house arrest of an associate of outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has been extended.
A Russian court is expected to start hearings on April 15 on imprisoned environmental activist Yevgeny Vitishko's request for early release.
A court in the Russian city of Krasnodar has started hearings into the case against a son of veteran Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev.
Investigators in the southern Russian city of Orenburg are analyzing online footage apparently showing a group of teenage girls performing an erotic dance.
A court in the city of Vladimir found Georgy Alburov guilty of "premeditated theft" on April 14 and sentenced him the same day.
A retired Russian naval officer in St. Petersburg is on trial on charges of spying for Ukraine.
A Russian activist who was jailed after raising concern about the environmental impact of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi has gone on a hunger strike.
The Russian Justice Ministry has added Transparency International Russia to its list of organizations designated as "foreign agents."
Journalists at a Siberian newspaper say they spent three days using scissors to cut an article about a Russian soldier who was wounded fighting alongside pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine out of 50,000 copies of the publication.
A court in St. Petersburg has authorized the government to block the social-network page of an online support group for LGBT teenagers in Russia.
Russian media reported that a journalist who wrote about corruption in Russia’s troubled southern region of Dagestan was briefly kidnapped and badly beaten on April 5 in an attack that he has called retribution for his work.
Twenty-six workers at Russia's newest spaceport in the Far East have begun a hunger strike to demand overdue salaries.
Russian police have searched the apartment of the bookkeeper for the independent electoral-rights group Golos (Voice) branch in the Volga River city of Samara.
A close associate of top Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny says he has been granted political asylum in Britain.
Russian police have evicted a regional leader of the independent electoral-rights group Golos (Voice) from her apartment and impounded other property in a tax-evasion case she says is politically motivated.
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