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Amnesty International has called on the Russian authorities to end their “open and shameless attempt” to intimidate the opposition ahead of September’s parliamentary elections in Moscow.
A Russian court has sentenced Aleksei Navalny to 30 days in jail as part of a larger clampdown on opposition leaders ahead of an unauthorized protest this weekend.
Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny says he was detained by police in Moscow shortly after he left his apartment for a run.
Several dozen demonstrators rallied in St. Petersburg to mourn Yelena Grigoryeva, an LGBT rights campaigner who was slain near her home in Russia's second-largest city.
Human rights activists say that Yelena Grigoryeva, an LGBT rights campaigner in Russia’s second largest city of Saint Petersburg, has been killed.
A leader of mass rallies in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg has been charged with libel and issuing public calls for "mass disturbances."
In Russia's Komi Republic, a major petroleum hub, crude oil leaks from pipelines and seeps into the ground and water. The routine small spills add up to an environmental crisis. Now a group of local activists is fighting to make oil producers clean up their mess.
Russian opposition leaders rallied thousands of people in Moscow to demand free and fair election as a decision by officials to ban some independent candidates in local elections has seemingly sparked new life into the political protest movement.
More than 20,000 people, including Aleksei Navalny and other prominent opposition figures, rallied in Moscow to demand free and fair local elections, according to White Counter, an NGO that tracks participation in protest events.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree expanding the simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for all residents of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin has vowed to appeal the Moscow Election Commission's July 15 decision to disqualify him from running in the elections for the capital's city council, the City Duma.
Russians wanting to impress their followers with vacation shots on social media can spend a fortune getting to a tropical paradise, or just find their way to a toxic waste dump in Siberia.
The Moscow Election Commission chief has agreed to meet with independent candidates for the city council, or City Duma, a day after police violently dispersed demonstrators who demanded such a meeting.
Authorities in Russia have arrested a 77-year-old researcher at a Russian rocket- and spacecraft-design institute on treason charges.
Russian police have detained dozens of demonstrators outside the Moscow Election Commission headquarters after opposition candidates called for a sit-in protest following their exclusion from city council elections.
Police in Moscow have detained dozens of demonstrators who rallied in front of the Supreme Court to show solidarity with four Crimean Tatars sentenced to lengthy prison terms on terrorism charges.
Russian opposition politician and anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny has been released from jail after serving the 10 days he was sentenced to for attending an unsanctioned protest.
A prominent Russian opposition activist says the number of political prisoners in Russia is twice what it was in the Soviet Union in 1976.
A trial of members of a Moscow youth activist group accused of extremism has taken an unexpected turn after a key witness recanted his testimony.
Mansur Sadulayev, a self-exiled Chechen human rights activist and critic of the Russian region's Kremlin-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov, has reportedly been detained in Sweden at the request of Russian authorities.
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