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The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, will meet during the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Japan later this week to discuss arms control and the tense situation in the Middle East, including Iran.
Hundreds of people attended a sanctioned rally in the Russian capital on June 23 to denounce what they called fabricated cases against activists and journalists.
The trial of Yury Dmitriyev, a Russian historian and renowned gulag researcher charged with sexually assaulting his adopted daughter, has been adjourned until July 23.
Russian lawmakers have voted to support a decree by President Vladimir Putin to suspend the country’s participation in the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which eliminated an entire class of missiles.
The head of Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan, Vladimir Vasilyev, has been hospitalized in Moscow with pneumonia.
The Russian Orthodox Church says it has rejected "the right" to build a cathedral at a disputed site in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg.
The offices of Snob, a Moscow-based online news magazine, have been ransacked and its equipment destroyed, employees of the media outlet say.
A senior aide to Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has been taken into custody shortly after serving 20 days in jail on charges related to an unsanctioned rally against the retirement age increase in Moscow last September.
A group of Russian celebrities have joined journalists, activists, and other supporters of Ivan Golunov as they prepare for a march in Moscow on June 12 to call for the investigative reporter’s release from pretrial house arrest on a narcotics charge that he denies.
Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov, who was arrested in Moscow on June 6 on suspicion of selling narcotics, has been ordered confined to house arrest pending his trial.
Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov, of the Latvia-based independent Meduza news site, has been detained in Moscow for allegedly attempting to sell illegal drugs, his lawyer and employer said, adding that he denies the allegations.
Authorities in Russia have arrested the former associate of a researcher at a Russian rocket- and spacecraft-design institute who had been in detention for almost a year on treason charges, his son says.
As many as 120,000 people attended the protest, making it the largest since the fall of communism in 1989.
Some 7,000 demonstrators have rallied in Russia's northwestern Komi Republic against the construction of a new landfill in the neighboring Arkhangelsk region.
Elton John has lashed out at the decision by a Russian distributor to remove intimate same-sex scenes from the domestic release of Rocketman, a new biographical film based on the life of the British rock star.
A dramatically higher approval rate for President Vladimir Putin in the latest poll shortly after his trust rating had sunk to new lows appears to be the result of Russia's leading state-owned pollster's changing how it formulates questions.
It's already pretty hard to travel to Russia without hearing the name of the beloved 19th-century poet Aleksandr Pushkin. Now it may be impossible, if you fly into Moscow.
All intimate same-sex scenes have been removed from the Russian release of Rocketman, a new biographical film based on the life of British rock star Elton John.
Prominent Russian intellectuals and Soviet-era dissidents have attended an event to support gulag researcher and historian Yury Dmitriyev, who is on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting his adopted daughter, a charge he and his supporters vehemently deny as politically motivated.
A former museum director who has conducted research at a mass grave containing the remains of thousands of people shot under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been convicted of having sex with a minor and sentenced to nine years in prison.
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