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The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Russia has surpassed 2 million as the number of daily deaths and infections hit new highs, prompting the country’s health minister to urge regional leaders to take further steps to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Russian historian Yury Dmitriyev, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison on a controversial child sexual-abuse charge that he and his supporters reject as politically motivated, may face additional prison time on new charges.
Eleven former prison guards in the Russian city of Yaroslavl have been convicted and handed prison terms in a high-profile case on inmate torture.
An icy road in Russia's Siberian region of Irkutsk has been covered with sand mixed with human bones, Interfax reported.
Russia's Supreme Court has eased the detention terms for U.S. investor Michael Calvey and six others from house arrest to a restriction on "certain activities."
An investigation has been launched into the death of an inmate that reportedly caused a prison riot in Siberia.
Russian authorities have decided to prohibit restaurants, bars, and nightclubs in the capital from serving customers between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. for two months in a bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
Azerbaijan has apologized for the "accidental" downing of a Russian military helicopter over Armenia that left two crew members dead and one injured on November 9.
A court of appeals in Moscow has intervened to ease the terms of the three-year prison term activist Yegor Lesnykh received during a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Moscow last year.
The Russian military says one of its servicemen has killed three people at a military air base in the country’s west.
Prominent Russian satirist, author, and stand-up performer Mikhail Zhvanetsky has died at the age of 86.
Contradicting statements by Russian officials have suggested either that Western nations could be behind the poisoning in August of opposition politician and outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny, or that he was not poisoned at all, and just suffered from "acute pancreatitis."
A former Russian deputy transport minister has acquired a controlling stake in weapons maker Kalashnikov.
Officers of Russia's Federal Bailiffs Service (FSSP) have searched the premises of outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in Moscow.
A Russian activist who was imprisoned over a satirical video featuring a mannequin of President Vladimir Putin has been released after a court suspended his sentence.
A Russian citizen charged in Sweden with the attempted murder of a blogger and outspoken critic of the authoritarian leader of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya says he acted on orders he received from Chechen officials.
The Moscow-based Memorial Human Rights Center issued an updated list of political prisoners in Russia on October 30, the Day of Commemoration of the Victims of Political Repressions.
An annual ceremony to commemorate thousands of people executed during communist dictator Josef Stalin's Great Terror has been held in Moscow and some other Russian cities online due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A court in Moscow has sentenced a member of the so-called New Greatness movement to six years in prison on extremism charges.
The last Tu-154 passenger jet still in service in Russia has completed its final scheduled commercial flight.
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