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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."
A prominent Russian environmental activist has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he plans to pardon jailed former oligarch and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
The office of Moldovan President Nicolae Timofti says he will not attend the opening ceremonies of the Sochi Winter Olympics in February next year.
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul says the United States will send a presidential delegation to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, but it has not been decided yet who will lead that delegation.
According to the latest report by the Sova Center for Information and Analysis, 19 people have been killed and 168 have been injured in ethnically motivated attacks in Russia so far this year.
The Russian Investigative Committee is asking the U.S. attorney general to verify reports of alleged violations of the rights of 26 Russian orphans adopted by American families.
Lawyer Semyon Ariya, who defended dissidents in the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 90.
Seven men suspected of illegal banking activities with possible links to a banned Islamic group have been arrested in Moscow and Russia's Perm Oblast.
A court in St. Petersburg has granted bail to five more Greenpeace activists.
A court in St. Petersburg has granted bail to six more Greenpeace activists, including the ship's American captain, Peter Willcox.
Russia's sports minister has said that passing the so-called gay-propaganda law before the Winter Olympics in Sochi was a mistake.
Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny has been chosen as chairman of the new Popular Alliance party.
The husband of jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova says he hopes to visit his wife in her Siberian prison next week.
Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has asked Russia's Supreme Court to throw out her conviction and prison sentence.
Moscow police have detained at least 14 people for conducting an unsanctioned demonstration in support of people held in custody over the so-called Bolotnaya case.
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