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The Moscow City Court has adjourned the trial of two Russian opposition activists, Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhayev, until February 25.
A Moscow court has opened the trial of two Russian opposition activists, Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhayev.
An opinion poll by Russia's independent Levada polling center shows Russians are unhappy about perceived corruption linked to the Winter Olympics in Sochi but would be disappointed if Russian teams were not among medal winners.
Russian independent television station Dozhd, which faces closure after it conducted a controversial poll, is offering its content free to cable channels.
A well-known civil society activist has been arrested in the Russian city of Tuapse, part of the Sochi area where the Winter Olympics will take place.
A march, sanctioned by the Moscow authorities, in support of people still detained or jailed for a May 2012 protest has started in Moscow.
A number of cable providers in Russia have suspended broadcasts by Dozhd TV for conducting a controversial poll about the Leningrad Blockade during World War II. The station's supporters, however, say the poll is only a pretext for the Kremlin to put pressure on Russia's best-known opposition television outlet.
Prosecutors in St. Petersburg have launched an investigation into a decision by the Dozhd TV station to conduct a poll asking viewers whether surrendering Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, during the Nazi siege in World War II would have been more humane.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has criticized the decision of the Dozhd TV station to conduct a poll asking viewers if surrendering Leningrad during the Nazi siege of World War II would have been more humane.
The Moscow City Court is resuming hearings into the murder of Russian investigative reporter and human rights campaigner Anna Politkovskaya.
The Moscow City Court has postponed hearings into the murder of Russian investigative reporter and human rights campaigner Anna Politkovskaya.
The Moscow City Court has appointed a new jury in the trial of five men suspected of involvement in the murder of Russian investigative reporter and human rights campaigner Anna Politkovskaya.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on January 13 that Sergei Mokhnatkin is now suspected of assaulting a second police officer -- a female -- during a Strategy-31 protest in Moscow last month.
The New York-based watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published a guide to the Sochi Winter Olympics and Paralympics for journalists that outlines coverage risks and widespread human rights abuses that it says "contradict the values in the Olympic charter."
In a statement issued on January 13, the Russian Investigative Committee's press service said police had raided an apartment belonging to Chechen lawyer Murad Musayev in connection with a criminal case launched against him in November.
A Russian art teacher whose imprisonment sparked protests has been freed following the intervention of President Vladimir Putin.
A Russian court in Yekaterinburg has imposed a 24-month work ban on a prominent journalist after finding her guilty of extortion.
Moscow's two main international airports have announced a total ban on liquids in carry-on baggage amid a security crackdown ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
After Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were freed from prison as part of an amnesty, they described Russian President Vladimir Putin's clemency as "laughable" and a "PR stunt."
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