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A teenager left his Siberian home, student life, and pressure from law-enforcement authorities behind to fight against Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine. He spoke to RFE/RL about the life he chose and the one he left behind.
The long-awaited trial of an alleged Russian ultranationalist leader accused of high-profile, murderous hate crimes has begun.
Lyudmila Alekseyeva, one of Russia's most outspoken and widely respected rights advocates, has returned to President Vladimir Putin's council on human rights and civil society three years after quitting the advisory body.
The Russian daily Novaya Gazeta has denied reports that one of its journalists fled Chechnya after receiving threats to her life related to her investigative reporting in the North Caucasus republic.
Many in the former Soviet Union remember lining up for vodka or struggling to find a stiff drink during Mikhail Gorbachev's antialcohol campaign in the 1980s.
Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky is in an induced coma in a private German clinic after undergoing emergency surgery on his heart.
A court in Moscow has found a former Defense Ministry official guilty of embezzlement in a multimillion-dollar corruption scandal that led to the ouster of her boss in 2012.
Outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny and his brother Oleg have been awarded a top prize awarded to raise awareness about totalitarian regimes.
A historian from Crimea, Oleksiy Chyrniy, has been sentenced to seven years in jail in Russia on terrorism charges.
Twenty workers at a space launch facility Russia is building in its Far East have begun a new hunger strike to demand overdue wages.
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.
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