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Crimean Tatars confronted Russian security forces as homes were searched in and around the city of Simferopol. Twenty people were detained in what Russian officials said was a sweep for suspects of a banned Islamic group.
An 18-year-old Russian activist has become the first person punished under a new law that prohibits adults from encouraging minors to take part in unauthorized protests.
Twelve-year-old Tasya wrote to Vladimir Putin in December, asking the president to help her overworked mother. After RFE/RL reported on her story, strangers sent money and gifts to the family. And that is when Tasya's mother says their real problems began.
Police in Moscow are searching for a man who walked around almost completely naked inside the Tretyakov Art Gallery -- the same Moscow museum where a man in January removed a valuable painting from a wall and walked out with it in broad daylight.
The governor of Russia's Chelyabinsk Oblast has resigned and the governor of Murmansk Oblast has reportedly stepped down, amid media speculation that further shake-ups in the country's regional leadership could be in the offing.
A court in Russia's Chechnya region has sentenced human rights activist Oyub Titiyev to four years in a penal colony after finding him guilty of possessing illegal drugs, a charge he and his supporters say was baseless and politically motivated.
Despite being under house arrest in Moscow, famed Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov has staged an opera 2,000 kilometers away in Hamburg, Germany.
A Moscow theater has put a political twist on the story of Alice in Wonderland. The play titled Run, Alice, Run parodies life in today's Russia and was inspired by the arrest of Russian film and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov.
Thousands rallied in downtown Moscow to protest an Internet bill on March 10. Critics of the bill say it will increase state control over the Internet and facilitate censorship. The police detained several people, including RFE/RL's Russian Service correspondent Andrei Kiselyov.
Thousands of activists have held protest actions across Russia against a new bill that its critics say is part of an effort by President Vladimir Putin's government to increase state control over the Internet and facilitate censorship.
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.
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