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The Moscow city prosecutor's office wants to revoke the parental rights of a couple that brought their 1-year-old son to an unsanctioned rally in front of the Moscow mayor's office on July 27.
As Moscow police respond to peaceful protests with increasing brutality, we filmed all sorts of people caught up in the violence -- protesters, passersby, and even a member of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party. (Note: Some people may find the violence in this video disturbing.)
A memorial to the victims of the Soviet secret police in Yekaterinburg, Russia, would be a place of quiet reflection if it weren't for the sound of gunshots from a nearby shooting range. Activists say the planned expansion of the sporting facility will encroach on an unknown number of mass graves.
Hundreds of people were detained by riot police in Moscow on August 3, a week after a similar demonstration in the Russian capital ended in a police crackdown with more than 1,300 detained.
A court in Moscow has sent four activists to pretrial detention for taking part in an unsanctioned rally.
Jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has filed an official complaint with Russia's main investigative authority in connection with an unexplained physical reaction that required his hospitalization, alleging that he was poisoned after being taken into custody following a recent Moscow protest.
Russia's media regulator says it will amend existing legislation in order to impose fines on British and other foreign media organizations working in Russia for breaking impartiality standards in retaliation for London fining Russia's RT TV channel.
A coordinator for Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team was immediately detained by police as he left a Moscow jail after servicing an eight-day jail term.
Police in Moscow have searched the home of Aleksei Minyailo, who trains signature collectors for the headquarters of opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, reports independent watchdog OVD-Info.
A court in Moscow has sentenced Mikhail Svetov, the leader of the Libertarian Party of Russia, to 30 days in jail after finding him guilty of violating laws on holding public events.
Russia has opened a criminal investigation into the July 27 protest in Moscow where police detained almost 1,400 people, the Investigative Committee said on July 30.
Russian courts have begun sentencing politicians and demonstrators who were detained during a mass rally against the exclusion of opposition candidates from the ballot for Moscow city council that was violently dispersed by police on July 27.
North Korea has released a Russian fishing boat with a crew of 15 Russians and two South Koreans after it was detained for allegedly violating entry regulations, officials say.
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.
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