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Two key figures in the ongoing street protests against Putinism and Russian political stagnation -- Sergei Udaltsov and Aleksei Navalny -- have been released after serving two-week jail terms because of a demonstration.
Russian lawmakers are expected to vote on a bill that would dramatically boost fines on protesters for participating in unsanctioned demonstrations.
Despite increasingly vociferous objections from Russia, this weekend's NATO summit will announce the next steps in European missile defense, including an "interim capability" that is being hailed as the first step toward fully protecting NATO populations from limited missile attacks.
The leader of Russia's opposition Solidarnost movement, Ilya Yashin, has been sentenced to 10 days in jail after being found guilty of failure to obey a law-enforcement officer.
The international human rights group Amnesty International has named Russian opposition leaders Aleksei Navalny and Sergei Udaltsov "prisoners of conscience."
A Moscow court has declared an ongoing street encampment in the Russian capital illegal, setting the grounds for police to move in and demolish it.
A ruling United Russia party official said the office's windows and doors sustained heavy damage, apparently including from paint guns, on May 9.
Russia's lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, has confirmed ex-president Dmitry Medvedev as the country's new prime minister, a day after President Vladimir Putin was sworn-in for a third term.
Moscow police say they have detained at least 400 protesters, including three opposition leaders, at a mass opposition rally in the capital on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration as Russian president for a third term.
An activist opposed to Vladimir Putin's continued rule says authorities have offered no official explanation for why he was detained after he attempted to pray for Russia's liberation from president-elect at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.
A Russian opposition politician who has been on a hunger strike for 40 days to protest alleged vote rigging in a mayoral election ended his protest fast on April 24.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on April 23 pardoned a man convicted of attacking a police officer during an unsanctioned opposition rally in Moscow in December 2009.
Thousands of believers gathered outside Russia's main cathedral on April 22 as part of what religious leaders called a day of prayer "in defense" of the Orthodox Christian faith.
The head of Russia's Central Election Commission says that its officials had noticed no fraudulent activities in video recorded at polling stations in Astrakhan's March 4 mayoral election.
A Moscow court is set to consider whether to extend the detention of three female punk rockers arrested after a protest performance in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral.
A Russian opposition figure and environmental activist is to be awarded the world's largest environmentalist award, the Goldman Environmental Prize, in San Francisco.
Police have scuffled with opposition activists in Russia's southern city of Astrakhan, amid tensions over the disputed results of a local election.
Supporters of a Russian mayoral candidate who has been on a hunger strike for more than three weeks have rallied in the southern city of Astrakhan.
The Moscow-based independent "Novaya Gazeta" daily says it does not rule out the possibility that an attack against one of its journalists this week was connected to her professional activities.
Police in Moscow have detained about 30 antigovernment protesters outside the gates to Red Square.
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