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Russian authorities are investigating a woman in the city of Yekaterinburg on suspicion of inciting extremism online after she joined Ukrainian nationalist groups on the Internet.
Russian authorities say a former Russian air force general committed suicide in Moscow on January 6 by hanging himself.
A nongovernmental organization in the Russian city of Volgograd has been added to the list of "foreign agents' on the Justice Ministry's request.
One of the Russians who was imprisoned after the May 6, 2012, protest on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square against Russian President Vladimir Putin has been released.
Gleb Yakunin, a prominent Russian priest and a veteran member of the Moscow Helsinki rights group has died after a long illness in Moscow.
Police in Moscow detained 19 activists near the International Trade Center building where President Vladimir Putin held his annual news conference on December 18.
Supporters of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, disrupted a human rights group’s press conference in Moscow on December 11 by pelting the group's leader with eggs at close range.
A Russian opposition activist has been convicted in absentia of assaulting police and sentenced to four years and six months in prison.
A Russian civil and gay rights activist, Kirill Kalugin, has applied for political asylum in Germany.
A Crimean Tatar has been detained in connection with clashes between Russian police and Crimean Tatars.
A prominent Russian gay rights activist and journalist has asked for political asylum in Germany.
Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus has received an annual award named after the late Russian reformer Yegor Gaidar.
The editor-in-chief of an independent Russian news website has been prevented from traveling abroad.
Well-known Soviet-era dissident and human rights activist Valery Senderov has died at the age of 69.
The editor in chief of an independent Russian news website says he has been detained at the airport in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk.
An ethnic Buryat woman crowned "Mrs. St. Petersburg" last week says she is surprised by racial taunts she endured after making critical comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The house arrest of an associate of outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has been extended.
Journalists honored the late Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya by bringing paper flowers to the headquarters of her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, on the eighth anniversary of her murder.
Moscow has seen its largest opposition protest since President Vladimir Putin's inauguration to a third presidential term in May 2012.
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