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Anti-gay activists led by a city lawmaker have disrupted a gay rights festival in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, dousing participants with green liquid and releasing a gas that made many feel sick.
Russian police have detained journalist Dmitry Shipilov hours after the publication of his interview with an advocate of greater autonomy for Siberian provinces.
A Russian student imprisoned over a May 2012 protest against President Vladimir Putin has been released, becoming the first of the so-called Bolotnaya defendants to be freed.
A prominent activist and gay rights advocate from St. Petersburg says she has left Russia after receiving death threats following her participation in a rally in support of Ukraine.
A nongovernmental organization representing the parents of the nearly 200 children killed at a school in the Russian town of Beslan 10 years ago say they are seeking justice abroad as Russian courts have failed them.
A Russian opposition activist has been placed under arrest for 15 days after an incident in which his wife said he did nothing wrong.
A correspondent for Russia's Ekho Moskvy radio has been attacked while covering single-person pickets supporting Ukraine in St. Petersburg.
A Russian court has ordered house arrest for four Muscovites accused of hanging a Ukrainian flag from a Soviet-era star atop a building near the Kremlin.
The editor-in-chief of the independent Russian news website Amurburg.ru says he has been detained by security officers following a trip to Georgia.
A well-known Russian opposition activist has been stabbed and hospitalized in the country’s second largest city, St. Petersburg.
Thousands of Muscovites bid farewell on July 16 to prominent political opposition figure and Soviet-era dissident Valeriya Novodvorskaya.
Remembering slain Chechen rights activist and journalist Natalya Estemirova in pictures.
A new law in Russia that bans the use of "foul words" in the arts came into force on July 1.
A well-known activist for press freedom in Russia is being held at a St. Petersburg airport after being stopped on her way to the United States.
One more Russian activist has been arrested in connection with the mass protest action on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square two years ago.
Former Polish President Lech Walesa has criticized leaders of Ukraine's pro-European Maidan protest movement for failing to negotiate with the former government, thus giving Russia a pretext for intervention.
A civic activist and blogger in Russia's Mari El Republic has been stabbed after staging a pro-Ukraine rally.
Police have detained several activists who were trying to hold a rally on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on the second anniversary of unrest that broke out there
Two of Russia's leading opposition figures, Boris Nemtsov and Aleksei Navalny, have been sent to jail on charges of disobeying police during an unsanctioned public gathering.
A Moscow court has sentenced seven of the eight defendants in the Bolotnaya Square case to jail terms of between 2 1/2 to four years.
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