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The Russian authorities are preventing performances by popular artists who channel the political and economic frustrations of young Russians.
An activist with Russian human rights group Vesna (Spring), Valentin Khoroshenin, has been detained over a demonstration of support for Ingushetia residents in their tug-of-war with Chechnya regarding the delimitation of the border between the two Russian republics in the North Caucasus.
Twenty years after democratic reformer Galina Starovoitova was assassinated, her sister says she does not believe that an infamous alleged crime kingpin who was implicated in the slaying was in fact behind it.
An umbrella organization of groups representing Russian military veterans has appealed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the alleged mercenary activities of Russian private security firms.
A renowned biochemist, Medvedev was the most prominent critic of biologist Trofim Lysenko, a favorite of dictator Josef Stalin who rejected genetics and created a pseudoscientific concept dubbed Lysenkoism.
Media reports in Russia says more than 30 houses belonging to Jehovah's Witnesses were searched by Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in the Moscow-annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea.
A video shows a Russian oligarch with close personal ties to President Vladimir Putin and who owns Russia's best-known private security firm attending a November 7 meeting in Moscow between high-level Russian defense officials and a Libyan military delegation.
Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov is on trial in Moscow, facing up to 10 years in prison if convicted on an embezzlement charge he has called unfounded and absurd.
The children of a district outside Moscow are represented by U.S.-born mixed-martial-arts fighter Jeff Monson, who is widely known for his risible Russian. So they sent their request to him by video in English.
Russia's independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper has received nine live sheep dressed in press jackets from an unknown source just days after publishing an investigative report about businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin.
An annual ceremony honoring the memory of thousands of men and women executed by the Soviet authorities during Josef Stalin's Great Terror is under way in Moscow.
Eighteen people were detained during an unauthorized protest in Moscow on October 28. The protest was in support of 10 Russians facing extremism charges in a case over a group known as the New Greatness.
Police in Moscow and St. Petersburg have detained at least 68 people taking part in unauthorized protests against a criminal case filed against 10 Russians accused of extremism.
The media-freedom representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has condemned an "exceptionally high" fine imposed on October 26 by a Moscow court against the independent The New Times online news outlet.
A court in Moscow has postponed the trial in a high-profile case against Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov and his associates.
A new statue of the late Uzbek president, Islam Karimov, was unveiled in Moscow on October 18 -- amid a petition drive to have it immediately pulled down.
Activists ran along a street in St. Petersburg with a banner wishing Russian President Vladimir Putin "many years in jail" on his birthday on October 7.
The director of a museum in Russia's Karelia region has been arrested on suspicion of corrupting a minor in a case that observers say might be connected to the prosecution of Stalin-era historian Yury Dmitriyev, who heads the Karelia branch of the human rights group Memorial, on similar charges.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law an unpopular bill raising the retirement age by five years, the Kremlin said.
The print run of a Crimean newspaper that ran an article about a villa allegedly belonging to Russian state media boss Dmitry Kiselyov has been withdrawn, the article's author says.
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