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Law enforcement authorities detained three opposition activists in Moscow on September 2 for their participation in an unauthorized rally three days earlier, according to their social media posts, colleagues, and local media reports.
A court in Moscow has refused a prosecutor's request to deprive a couple of their parental rights and take their three children from them for bringing them to a protest rally.
Thousands of Russians marched in central Moscow as opposition activists defied authorities' warnings and pushed ahead with a protest focused on upcoming city council elections. The August 31 action was the latest in a series of confrontations between liberal activists and Moscow city authorities -- and the Kremlin. A leading opposition figure, Lyubov Sobol, speaking to journalists during the protest, said that repression will not work and also called on Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to resign.
Thousands of people have joined a march in Moscow, defying warnings by the authorities against taking part in an unauthorized demonstration. The crowds are demanding opposition candidates be allowed to run in forthcoming local elections.
A Russian court has extended the detention of Paul Whalen, a U.S. citizen and former U.S. Marine, until October 29 as he awaits trial on espionage charges that he denies.
The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's military to prepare "comprehensive measures" in response to a U.S. missile test that has raised fears of a new arms race after the collapse of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
Kyiv and Moscow are reportedly preparing a prisoner exchange that would see each side swapping 33 detainees, possibly including Ukrainian sailors captured by Russian forces late last year.
An opposition candidate in Moscow’s upcoming municipal elections says local authorities have refused to issue a permit to hold a protest in the Russian capital on August 31.
The Kremlin's website has corrected translations of some statements by French President Emmanuel Macron after the meanings of statements he made on elections while at a joint news conference with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin were reversed.
A potential candidate for the Moscow city council who has been struggling to get registered for the September 8 poll has been jailed for a third time in a row, a day after completing a 15-day term.
Three Russian citizens held in Ukraine are getting ready for a prisoner swap, their lawyer said amid reports that Russia plans to hand over to Kyiv dozens of jailed Ukrainians.
The Moscow City Court has rejected an appeal by opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov to overturn the refusals by two election commissions to register him as a candidate in September 8 municipal elections in the Russian capital.
A 23-year-old man from the Siberian city of Tomsk has been sentenced to five years in prison for "justifying terrorism" on the Internet.
Damir Yusupov, the pilot who landed a Ural Airlines passenger plane in a Russian cornfield, says he wasn't afraid after both of the jetliner's engines were knocked out by birds. He didn't have time to be.
The Moscow City Court has rejected an appeal by opposition politician Ilya Yashin against multiple election commissions' refusal to register him as a candidate in the September 8 municipal elections in the Russian capital.
One of four activists who had their two-month pretrial detention terms upheld on August 15 has thanked a Moscow court for proving the point of thousands of Russians who have taken to the streets in pro-democracy rallies.
A Moscow court has ruled that French banker Philippe Delpal can be transferred from pretrial detention to house arrest pending trial on fraud charges, while the head of his company, U.S. investor Michael Calvey, was denied a request to be released from house arrest.
The head of the local chapter of Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation says he has been removed from the list of registered candidates for the upcoming municipal elections.
The crew of a Ural Airlines aircraft is being hailed as heroes after making an emergency landing in a farmer's field near Moscow with no fatalities among the 233 people on board.
A museum dedicated to garbage has opened on Bering Island off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula aimed at drawing attention to growing pollution in the world's oceans.
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