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Tens of thousands of people gathered on September 2 in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to mourn a top rebel leader who was recently killed in a bomb attack.
Russian opposition activist Sergei Udaltsov has been hospitalized again as he continued a nearly two-week hunger strike in prison.
Police in Moscow on August 25 detained three people on Red Square commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1968 protest there against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions on several Russian nationals and companies as Washington warned it was ready to tighten the economic screws further on Moscow if it did not change its ways.
Two teenage girls charged with plotting to overthrow the Russian government were transfered from detention to house arrest. An agent for the FSB security service was a key organizer in their group.
Russian authorities have moved from jail to house arrest one of two teenagers detained on charges of "involvement in a terrorist community” in a case set up by an undercover law enforcement officer, Russian news agencies report.
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, imprisoned by Russia, has gained global attention. But another Ukrainian was in the dock with him: Oleksandr Kolchenko is serving a 10-year sentence in Siberia.
Russian investigators have asked a Moscow court to transfer to house arrest a pair of Russian teenagers detained on charges of "involvement in a terrorist community” that had been set up by an undercover Federal Security Service (FSB) agent.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has allowed a member of Russia's Presidential Advisory Council On Human Rights to visit Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who has been on hunger strike in a Russian prison for the past three months.
The condition of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who has been on a hunger strike in a Russian prison for nearly three months, has worsened considerably, his lawyer and his cousin say.
Russian police detained have detained around 30 LGBT rights activists who took part in an unsanctioned rally in St. Petersburg.
Three people, including a top aide to Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, were released from custody after being arrested as thousands of people protested in central Moscow for a second day against a controversial plan to raise the retirement age.
Three people, including a top aide to Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, were arrested as thousands protested in central Moscow for a second consecutive day against a highly controversial plan to raise the retirement age.
Tens of thousands of Russians have rallied across the country to protest against a controversial plan to raise the retirement age.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an order creating two state awards targeted at journalists.
RFE/RL presents the results of its open-source investigation of the 12 Russian military-intelligence officers and the military units named in a U.S. indictment issued in connection with the hacking of Democratic Party computers during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Some 200 protesters gathered outside the Russian State Duma on July 19 to challenge proposed legislation to increase the country's retirement age, as lawmakers prepared to vote for the bill in its first reading.
A garden dedicated to the memory of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was assassinated in 2006, was opened in Moscow on July 13.
A garden created in honor of slain Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya has opened near the offices of the newspaper she worked for in Moscow, while the United States honored two other journalists killed in Russia.
A leading member of the Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot has been fined for evading community service.
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