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A man on a march across Russia who says he wants "to topple Putin" has reportedly been seized by masked, armed men. Aleksandr Gabyshev left Yakutsk in Russia's Far East earlier this year to walk 8,000 km to Moscow.
Russian film and theater actors gathered in Moscow to take turns holding a one-person picket in front of presidential offices. It was all in support of a budding actor who has been jailed for allegedly harming a police officer at a recent protest, despite video evidence showing otherwise.
Russian actors have held individual protests in front of the presidential administration in Moscow against the imprisonment of Pavel Ustinov, who was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for resisting police during a protest rally last month he insists he did not participate in.
A court in the town of Chernyakhovsk has ruled that the coat of arms of the old town in Russia's far western exclave of Kaliningrad is illegal because it carries "elements of foreign culture."
A court in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, has fined an American teenager for possessing 19 grams of marijuana, which the 19-year-old U.S. citizen said she used for medical purposes.
A 28-year-old man who fought alongside Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine was on September 16 found dead with seven gunshot wounds on a stairwell inside a residential building in the Donetsk region city of Mariupol.
A gas-cylinder explosion has sparked a fire at a Russian laboratory housing one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of dangerous viruses.
Russia's Supreme Court has upheld the 14-year prison term of a Polish citizen found guilty of espionage.
Russian actor Pavel Ustinov has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for violence against police during a protest rally last month he insists he did not participate in.
Turkey has announced that it has accepted delivery of all the components of the second battery of the advanced S-400 air-defense system that Ankara has purchased from Moscow.
A court in Russia's northwestern Leningrad region has sentenced a former officer of the Federal Security Service (FSB) to four years in prison on torture charges.
Massive wildfires are burning across Siberia. In the Irkutsk region, a lack of equipment and manpower to fight the blazes has left locals feeling abandoned by Moscow. They blame authorities for negligence and corruption.
Russian law enforcement officers have raided the offices of Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation in dozens of cities across Russia, according to his associates and human rights activists.
A judge in the trial of Russian theater director Kirill Serebrennikov and his co-defendants wants to send the controversial embezzlement case back to prosecutors.
Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov whose arrest on fabricated illegal drug charges caused a mass outcry and rallies in Moscow in June, has received the Anna Politkovskaya award for professional courage.
Russia's ruling party appears headed toward holding fewer seats on Moscow’s city council election as voters shunned President Vladimir Putin's party at the polls following weeks of anti-government protests.
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron about the armed conflict in eastern Ukrainian and Iranian nuclear deal on September 8, according to the Kremlin's website.
Two Russian soccer players have been granted early release after serving less than half of their prison sentences for hooliganism over beatings they inflicted in Moscow last year.
Kremlin critic and former lawmaker Sergei Petrov has been put on an international most wanted list for allegedly siphoning off 4 billion rubles ($63.5 million) out of Russia in 2014.
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