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Hundreds of protesters have rallied in central Moscow to demand the release of political activists jailed after clashes with the police last year.
Authorities in the Russian city of St. Petersburg have investigated the operations of the international Catholic charity group Caritas.
Russian authorities are continuing their inspections of nongovernmental organizations around the country.
Russia's Investigative Committee has dropped its investigation into the death of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, according to a statement posted to the committee's official website.
A prominent Russian blogger and photographer has been detained at St. Petersburg's airport and held overnight.
The Moscow-based Sova Center says the level of xenophobia and radical nationalism in Russia remained high last year.
Sixteen people were detained at a rally in Moscow where protesters were demanding equal rights for women.
A Moscow court has again postponed the posthumous trial of Sergei Magnitksy, a whistle-blowing Russian lawyer who died in detention in 2009.
Tens of thousands of protesters have held a sanctioned march through the center of Moscow to protest a recently adopted law that bans the adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens.
Moscow police have detained dozens of protesters and several opposition leaders to disperse an unsanctioned rally in a square outside the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB).
Yusup Temirkhanov, an ethnic Chechen, is charged with killing Russian Army Colonel Yury Budanov, who was convicted of murdering a Chechen girl.
A Moscow court has released the defendant in a high-profile case that sparked ethnic tensions.
In Moscow, several thousand people marched peacefully in a sanctioned demonstration through the center of the city -- the first time the authorities have authorized such a march in the city center. But elsewhere, there were detentions and arrests.
The new Georgian prime minister's envoy to Russia says talks with Moscow should be held in a new format.
The Warsaw district prosecutor's office says a key witness in the investigation of 2010's Polish presidential plane crash is dead.
Russia has been marking the 10th anniversary of the end of the Dubrovka theater siege in which nearly 200 people were killed.
Russian media have quoted investigators there saying an aide to a State Duma deputy has signed a statement alleging that a Georgian official financed an opposition demonstration in Moscow in May that ended in scuffles with police.
A suspect in the high-profile murder of Russian Colonel Yury Budanov has reportedly been beaten while in custody.
Russian opposition activists gathered in Moscow on August 19 to mark the anniversary of a failed Soviet coup more than 20 years ago.
Some 20 activists held an action to support the feminist punk performance-art group Pussy Riot in Moscow on August 15.
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