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A court in Moscow has found Mikhail Kosenko guilty of assaulting a police officer and participating in the mass antigovernment unrest on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square in May 2012.
Rights activists and supporters are commemorating the death of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya on the seventh anniversary of her murder.
A court in Nizhny Novgorod has postponed a hearing into a motion filed by a jailed member of the Russian feminist performance-art group Pussy Riot to mitigate her sentence.
U.S. Senator John McCain has defended an opinion piece he wrote for the Russian website Pravda in which he said Russians deserve better than the policies of President Vladimir Putin’s government.
Russia's State Duma was scheduled to conduct a second reading of a controversial law to reform the country's Academy of Sciences.
The Russian Union of Journalists has awarded its first Anna Politkovskaya prize to an investigative journalist who, like Politkovskaya herself, writes about Russia's restive North Caucasus.
Authorities in the Far Eastern Russian city of Komsomolsk-na-Amure have started evacuating local residents as unprecedented flooding caused by heavy rain continues in the region.
Russian police have detained about 1,800 suspected illegal migrant workers at a market in the city of Odintsovo near Moscow.
A leader of Russia's opposition Left Front movement has asked for political asylum in Sweden.
Russia's Supreme Court has reduced by two months the 11-year sentence imposed on former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner, Platon Lebedev.
The convicted Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny is scheduled to arrive in Moscow later this morning.
Moscow’s election commission has registered opposition figure and anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny as a candidate for September's Moscow mayoral election.
The punk performance-art group Pussy Riot has released a new music video lashing out at the oil industry, Igor Sechin, who is the head of Russia’s largest oil company Rosneft, and others.
Jailed Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina is reportedly being transferred from a labor camp in the Perm region to another prison in central Russia.
Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is meeting with Russian human rights activists and lawyers at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport.
About 600 residents of the town of Pugachyov in Saratov Oblast of Russia's Volga region have taken part in a protest and demanded that people native to the North Caucasus be forced out of the region.
Tarkhan Kartoev, 41, who was sentenced for his involvement in 2009 "Nevsky Express" train bombing in Russia's western Tver Oblast, has died in prison.
A prominent human rights group in Moscow was raided on the night of June 21. Officials had ordered the NGO For Human Rights to vacate the building, saying their lease had expired. In an interview with RFE/RL's Vladimir Kara-Murza, the group's leader, veteran rights activist Lev Ponomaryov, described how he was beaten during the raid.
The leader of a gay rights group in St. Petersburg, Russia has been fined for refusing to register as "a foreign agent.'' The same day, Human Rights Watch warns that Russian authorities are using the legislation to "curtail" NGO activities.
Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who is wanted by Washington on espionage charges, reportedly did not travel, as expected, on a flight from Moscow to Havana.
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