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Thousands of Russian nationalists have marched in Moscow -- with several detained by police after refusing to remove black balaclavas or waving nationalist flags of black, yellow, and white.
Russia's Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence of Aleksei Pichugin, the imprisoned former head of security for the now-defunct Yukos oil company, defying a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Extra police have been deployed to a district in Moscow after some of the worst anti-migrant unrest in the Russian capital in three years.
A group of young men have stormed a shopping center in southwest Moscow, smashing windows, throwing flares, and chanting nationalist slogans following the murder of a local young man that was blamed on migrant workers.
The Executive Director of Greenpeace International says he is ready to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to secure the release of his people from Russian custody.
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.
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