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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.
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.
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