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Russia's Interior Ministry has added Dmitry Kolezev, the chief editor of the online newspaper Republic, to its wanted list, saying he is a suspect in an unspecified case.
Viktor Cherkesov, an old associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the former chief of the Federal Drugs Control Service (FKSN), has died at the age of 72.
German officials have searched branches of the Swiss bank UBS in Frankfurt and Munich as part of an investigation into Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who is suspected of money laundering and other crimes.
Police in Germany have impounded 30 paintings -- include works by French modernist Marc Chagall -- from a yacht belonging to one of Russia's richest people, Alisher Usmanov, who has been slapped with Western sanctions over his close ties to President Vladimir Putin.
A court in Moscow has sent opposition activist Ilya Povyshev to jail for 25 days and ordered him to pay a 50,000-ruble fine for holding a picket on November 7 to protest against Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
A court in Moscow has extended the pretrial detention of opposition politician Ilya Yashin until November 26.
Russian journalist and TV personality Ksenia Sobchak has reportedly returned to Russia, almost two weeks after she left to avoid possible arrest.
Twenty percent of Ukraine’s protected areas and 3 million hectares of forests have been affected by the war in the country
Russian emergency officials said at least 13 people were killed when a fire erupted in a nightclub northeast of Moscow.
A former Russian citizen of Armenian descent, billionaire Ruben Vardanian, has been appointed to the post of prime minister of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
More than 100 men mobilized to the war in Ukraine from Russia's Chuvashia region have rebelled, demanding overdue salaries promised to them.
The British government has imposed economic sanctions on four Russian businessmen, banning them from entering the U.K. and freezing any assets they hold in Britain.
RFE/RL asked people in Moscow how they thought the war in Ukraine -- which Russian President Vladimir Putin maintains is a "special military operation" -- is going.
Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has been placed in punitive solitary confinement for the seventh time since August for what he says are politically motivated reasons.
Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster Anatoly Karpov has been hospitalized in Moscow with a traumatic brain injury and a fractured leg after falling under mysterious circumstances.
Moscow and Chisinau exchanged diplomatic expulsions after a Russian missile that was shot down by Ukraine fell in a Moldovan village
Activists have broken into the five-story Amsterdam home of sanctioned Russian technology tycoon Arkady Volozh and say they plan to use it as a temporary shelter for students and other young individuals.
Small gatherings have been held in several Russian cities to mark the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, even as the Russian government continues carrying out the harshest crackdown on dissent in the post-Soviet period.
Ukraine and Russia have carried out another prisoner exchange, the Ukrainian president's chief of staff announced on October 29, saying the action resulted in the release of 52 Ukrainian citizens.
Russia's lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, has approved the first reading of a series of amendments to the country's controversial "gay propaganda" law, an expansion of the legislation that rights activists say has put LGBT people at risk and led to increased discrimination and violence.
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