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Municipal deputies in the Moscow district of Lomonosovsky have appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to resign, saying "everything went wrong" since the start of his second term and they believe a change of power is necessary for the sake of the country.
A journalist in Russia's Kalmykia region, which lies north of the North Caucasus region, says he was attacked for carrying out his journalistic activities.
Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, has expressed condolences over the death of Queen Elizabeth II, saying she was an example of "the highest culture."
Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny says prison authorities have informed him that they have decided to revoke his right to attorney-client privilege because he continues to commit crimes from prison.
An explosion rocked the headquarters of a pro-Russia movement in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol amid reports of attacks against officials appointed by Moscow in the southeast of the country.
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has been placed in punitive solitary confinement for the fourth time since mid-August.
Investigators in Russia have launched a probe against noted independent documentary filmmaker Vitaly Mansky after pro-Kremlin film director Nikita Mikhalkov accused him of libel.
Last year, Russia’s Interior Ministry purchased 15,000 sets of shackles. Now the shackles – “new and shiny,” one lawyer says – are showing up on defendants in courts in Russia’s mid-Volga region.
A court in Moscow has revoked the registration of the Novaya gazeta newspaper's magazine just a day after it annulled the license of one of the last independent media outlets in Russia as part of a media crackdown amid the Kremlin's war against Ukraine.
Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has filed a lawsuit against his prison's warden, accusing him of illegally placing the outspoken Kremlin critic in punitive solitary confinement.
A court in Moscow has sentenced Ivan Safronov, a prominent former journalist, to 22 years in prison in a high-profile treason case highlighting the Kremlin's crackdown on the media.
Federal agents in the United States have searched several properties linked to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, whose superyacht was seized in Spain earlier this year at the request of the United States.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has reportedly recruited almost 1,000 inmates from two penal colonies in the southwestern Rostov region, promising them early release if they fight in Moscow's war against Ukraine.
A court in Moscow has dropped a case against an independent municipal lawmaker over his post on Facebook related to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
LUKoil, Russia's largest private oil company and one of the few to voice opposition to the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, says its chairman has died following a "serious illness," disputing local media reports that he had plunged to his death from a hospital window.
A court in Switzerland has fined three members of Russia's Pussy Riot protest group for attempting to paint anti-war graffiti on the curb of a road in Bern.
The former director-general of the Internews Foundation in Russia, Manana Aslamazian, has died at the age of 70 in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.
Aleksei Navalny, the imprisoned Russian opposition politician, says he has been sent to solitary confinement for the third time this month as a punishment for his political activities.
Russian opposition politician Leonid Gozman has been handed a 15-day jail term on a charge of equating Soviet-era Russia with Nazi Germany.
The prosecution has asked a Moscow court to convict and sentence Ivan Safronov, a prominent former journalist, to 24 years in prison in a high-profile treason case that is widely considered to be politically motivated.
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