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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.
Police and local government officials have raided the Moscow offices of one of Russia's best-known human rights groups.
Russian anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny has been cross-examined for the first time at his embezzlement trial in the city of Kirov.
Thousands of Russian opposition activists have marched through Moscow denouncing President Vladimir Putin's rule and calling for the release of those they consider political prisoners.
The legislation, adopted on June 11, has been criticized by rights defenders as a way to oppress homosexuals amid rising homophobia in Russia. It bans the distribution to minors by Russians, foreign citizens, and media organizations of "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations."
The jailed husband of prominent Russian pro-reform activist Olga Romanova has been released.
Russian police have detained about two dozen opponents of President Vladimir Putin who tried to protest in Moscow and St. Petersburg against restrictions on freedom of assembly.
Armed and masked police have searched the offices of a company involved in developing sports facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi.
A parole hearing in the Russian town of Berezniki has been adjourned until May 23 after a jailed member of the all-female opposition group Pussy Riot refused to continue taking part via video-link.
Jailed Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina has had one of two prison reprimands dismissed.
Russian film director Aleksei Balabanov, whose films include the 1997 crime film "Brother" (Brat) and its sequel, "Brother-2," died after collapsing from an apparent heart attack in the village of Solnechnoye outside St. Petersburg.
The trial of opposition figure and anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny has resumed in the central Russian city of Kirov.
Russia’s only independent polling agency has reportedly been asked to register as a "foreign agent" after authorities claimed it had received funding from abroad.
Moscow's prosecutor-general has urged the Memorial human rights center to comply with a new law on nongovernmental organizations requiring some NGOs to register as "foreign agents."
Anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny and his defense lawyers have been questioning a key government witness in the embezzlement case against him.
Russian civil rights activist Konstantin Lebedev has been convicted of organizing mass disorders in Moscow last year.
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