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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.
An improvised memorial near the Kremlin where Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was gunned down last month has been vandalized.
A civil rights activist in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan has been sentenced to three years in prison for the "public justification of terrorism."
A Russian human rights activist has been questioned by investigators after he said there were signs a suspect in opposition politician Boris Nemtsov's killing was tortured.
Tens of thousands of Russians have marched through central Moscow to mourn slain opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and express outrage at the Kremlin over his killing.
Andrei Balin, the co-chairman of the local branch of the Republican Party of Russia – People's Freedom Party in the central Russian city of Talyatti, was beaten and robbed shortly before the party's leader, Boris Nemtsov, was gunned down in Moscow.
Dozens of young activist belonging to an anti-Maidan movement in Russia have protested in front of RFE/RL's offices in Moscow.
Noted Russian journalist Dmitry Shipilov from Kemerovo region in Siberia has received asylum in Ukraine.
Russian civil rights activist Pavel Shekhtman plans to request political asylum in Ukraine.
A district court in Moscow is expected to review the case against Sveltana Davydova, a woman from Vyazma who is accused of treason for allegedly telephoning the Ukrainian Embassy and informing it about Russian troop movements.
A coalition of Russian opposition activists has applied to the Moscow authorities for permission to hold a mass demonstration in the capital on March 1.
Investigators in Moscow have searched the apartment belonging to the parents of an associate of outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny.
A Moscow court has extended the pretrial detention period for Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko until May 13.
Russian officials say 34 illegal labor migrants from Central Asia were detained in the city of St. Petersburg.
Svetlana Davydova’s husband said his wife phoned the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow in April and said that a military base near their home had emptied out, suggesting the soldiers may have been deployed to Ukraine.
A concert by a Russian singer has been cancelled after he performed a song he wrote that is critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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