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A court in Moscow has extended the pretrial detention of an activist charged with assaulting a police officer during an unsanctioned rally.
A Russian court has detained a prominent historian for killing his lover and then taking parts of her body in a backpack to a river to dispose of them.
Charges have been dropped against a Russian physician accused of defrauding the state by misusing funds she received from the federal government under the Rural Doctor program.
One of Russia's most prominent human rights defenders, Sergei Sharov-Delone, has died at the age of 63.
A Russian man charged with assaulting a police officer during an unsanctioned rally has been remanded in pretrial custody after failing to win an appeal of his arrest.
A Russian activist who has criticized the government for the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region in 2014 has fled the country after he was attacked and threatened.
A dissident Russian journalist who once promised facetiously to return to his homeland in a U.S.-made Abrams tank, says he "temporarily" left Ukraine, where he has lived in self-imposed exile since fall 2017.
Dozens of women have held a series of one-person pickets in central Moscow to call for the release of their children, who they said had been arrested on politically motivated charges.
The head of the Russian Interior Ministry's Anti-Extremism Center in the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia was shot dead in Moscow on November 2.
Prosecutors in Moscow have opened a criminal investigation into a YouTube channel called Real Talk over two videos in which a group of children ask questions of representatives of Russia's gay community.
Russia's Supreme Court has ordered the closure of a prominent human rights group for "breaking regulations" on multiple occasions, sparking outraged reactions from human rights activists and opponents of the Kremlin.
A Moscow court has relaunched an embezzlement case against Russian film and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov and his co-defendants.
A court in Moscow has approved the Justice Ministry’s decision to brand opposition politician and blogger Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) as "a foreign agent."
A controversial Russian law on the Internet came into force on November 1 amid warnings from critics that the legislation is an attempt to increase censorship.
Prominent Soviet-era dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who helped expose the Soviet Union's abuse of psychiatry to silence critics, has died in Britain aged 76.
Individual pickets were held on October 26 in Moscow in support of two activists who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms earlier this month for organizing anti-government protests in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don in 2017.
The Russian office of environmental activist group Greenpeace on October 23 voiced concern that Russia has again begun accepting uranium tails, a by-product of enriching uranium, from abroad.
A Russian parliamentary committee has accused six foreign-registered and funded media outlets of violating the country's election law before and during last month's elections to regional and local councils.
The Moscow City Court has upheld a lower court decision to keep activist Yegor Zhukov under house arrest after he was charged with calls for extremism.
A charge against Moscow protester Aidar Gubaidullin has been changed for the third time since a criminal case was launched against him for taking part in an unsanctioned rally in July.
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