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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.
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.
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