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Russian activists were arrested and fined for throwing flowers at a monument to Josef Stalin on Moscow's Red Square on March 5, the 66th anniversary of the Soviet dictator's death.
Some 500 people gathered on Moscow's Red Square to mark the 66th anniversary of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's death.
A Russian court has ruled that American investment-fund manager Michael Calvey should remain in pretrial custody, rejecting his appeal to be moved to house arrest.
Thousands of Muscovites joined a February 24 march commemorating Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and opposition leader who was gunned down just meters from the Kremlin on February 27, 2015. Rallies marking the anniversary of his killing were held across Russia.
Thousands of people were marching in Russian cities on February 24 to commemorate slain Kremlin critic and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov.
The Russian prosecutor’s office has begun an investigation into accusations of illegal whaling. Activists claim 87 belugas and 11 killer whales, which are being held near Nakhodka in Russia’s Far East, have been captured for sale to aquariums in China rather than for legal scientific purposes.
Authorities in St. Petersburg have denied permission to hold a march in the city center on February 24 to mark the fourth anniversary of the killing of opposition political leader Boris Nemtsov.
A court in Moscow has extended the detention of the American founder of investment company Baring Vostok, Michael Calvey, who is accused of large-scale fraud, a charge which he rejects.
Russian-imposed authorities in Ukraine's occupied Crimea region have detained three Crimean Tatar activists, according to a Ukrainian human rights group.
Participants in an unsanctioned march in St. Petersburg demonstrated solidarity with an activist who faced numerous obstacles when trying to see her dying daughter in a hospital. Police called on the protesters to disperse and reportedly detained seven of them.
An unsanctioned march was organized in Moscow on February 10 in solidarity with an activist who faced numerous obstacles when trying to see her dying daughter in a hospital.
Protesters have taken to the streets of several Russian cities in solidarity with an activist who had been refused permission to visit her sick daughter in the hospital until the girl was in a critical state.
Russian and international rights activists have expressed concern that a criminal investigation against prominent local journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva amounts to an infringement of freedom of the press.
Representatives of Taliban militants have met for a second day in Moscow with an Afghan delegation led by former President Hamid Karzai.
The embezzlement trial of Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov has been suspended after the judge ordered new research of the groups' activities.
Members of a Russia-based nongovernmental organization called the Public Monitoring Commission say they have seen evidence of torture on the body of a detained postgraduate mathematics student who attends Moscow State University.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets across Russia to voice anger over the environmental consequences of poorly managed landfills and household waste disposal.
Muscovites are getting angry about their new sidewalks. Many of the city center's walkways are being redone, but the stone tiling has already become badly uneven in many areas. Residents and officials disagree on whether it's poor construction, the tiles used, the weather, or corruption.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine’s government of “blatant interference” in the Orthodox Church in Ukraine after a new national institution split from Moscow’s patronage.
Russian investigators say they are examining allegations that law enforcement officers tortured a Kyrgyz citizen who was detained in the wake of an explosion that brought down part of an apartment building in the city of Magnitogorsk, killing at least 39 people.
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