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Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded the rank of military major general to the head of the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.
Prosecutors in the northern Russian city of Petrozavodsk have said they will appeal the 3 1/2-year prison term given to historian Yury Dmitriyev.
Police in Moscow have detained several demonstrators who were demanding the release of activists serving prison terms from the high-profile "Rostov case."
The lower chamber of Russia's parliament has approved the final reading of a bill that would allow voting over as many as three days during elections.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired the governor of the Khabarovsk region, who was arrested on murder charges, sparking massive rallies in his support.
Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny is closing his Anti-Corruption Foundation after using it for almost a decade to reveal official wrongdoing.
Russia's Health Ministry has denied a report that political and business elites have been given early access to an experimental vaccine against COVID-19.
Tens of thousands of people in the Far Eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk marched in an unsanctioned rally on July 18 to protest the arrest of a local governor.
Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny says he has been ordered not to leave Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a snap "combat readiness check" involving 150,000 personnel and hundreds of aircraft and naval vessels.
Lawyers for Russian journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva have filed an appeal against her conviction.
The Moscow City Court has upheld the pretrial arrest of the governor of the Far Eastern Khabarovsk Krai region.
The Moscow City Court has upheld the two-month pretrial detention of former journalist Ivan Safronov.
A Russian couple on trial for high treason are facing a new charge: passing secret information to Latvian intelligence.
A Russian prosecutor has demanded that three members of the New Greatness youth activist group facing extremism charges receive between four and 7.5 years in pr
Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has been summoned for questioning in a criminal case launched over comments he made on social media.
Investigators of the Federal Security Service have formally charged an aide to the chief of Russia's Roskosmos space agency, journalist Ivan Safronov, with high treason.
A deputy in a local Moscow council said a city contract to replace an elevator in an apartment building was written with disappearing ink, potentially allowing the company to inflate the price.
Sergei Furgal, the detained governor of Russia's Far Eastern Khabarovsk region, has been sent to pretrial detention on charges of attempted murder and ordering the killing of two local businessmen.
group of Russian lawmakers has proposed an expanded extremism bill aimed at further quelling opposition activists and politicians as well as anyone questioning Moscow’s forcible seizure of the Crimean Peninsula.
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