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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newspaper that ran an article about a villa allegedly belonging to Russian state media boss Dmitry Kiselyov has been withdrawn, the article's author says.
A Russian man whose videotaped abuse by prison guards caused a public outcry has been released from prison after serving his nearly seven-year prison term.
Russians have staged small rallies in several cities to protest against an unpopular plan to raise the eligibility age for retirement pensions by five years.
The Communist Party rallied supporters outside the State Duma building in Moscow, as the lower house of the Russian parliament voted on a controversial plan to raise the retirement age.
An unpopular plan to raise the retirement age has advanced in the Russian legislature after lawmakers overwhelmingly approved President Vladimir Putin's proposal to limit the increase for women to five years -- to age 60 -- instead of eight.
Russia's Defense Ministry has doubled down on its allegation that Israel is to blame for the downing of a Russian military plane over the eastern Mediterranean Sea nearly a week ago, saying it was caused by "misleading information" provided by the Israeli military.
Russians have staged demonstrations across the country to protest government plans to raise the eligibility age for retirement pensions by five years.
Russia’s Supreme Court has sharply narrowed when people can be charged under the country’s extremism laws, saying that simply “liking” or reposting material on social media does not alone constitute a crime.
The Russian military has made a new claim about the downing of a passenger jet over the war zone in eastern Ukraine in 2014, asserting that the missile that brought Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 down was sent to Soviet Ukraine after it was made in 1986 and never returned to Russia.
Supporters of Russia's Communist Party are protesting after the ruling United Russia party's candidate suddenly surged ahead in the final stages of the vote count in a runoff election for governor of the Primorye region.
Russian activist Pyotr Verzilov, a member of the anti-Kremlin rock band Pussy Riot and the dissident art troupe Voina, has reportedly arrived in Berlin on a medical flight from Moscow to continue treatment following a suspected poisoning.
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