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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.
Two leading Russian activists were detained in central Moscow while demonstrating to demand the release of the head of the human rights group Memorial's office in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Oyub Titiyev.
A court in Russia has fined Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for allegedly failing to comply with a Russian law regulating media outlets branded by the government as "foreign agents."
Players from Syria, Afghanistan, and Zimbabwe battled it out at an event on Moscow's Red Square aimed at raising awareness about the plight of refugees. The UNHCR says there were 126,000 refugees in Russia in 2017, with the overwhelming majority from Ukraine.
The brother of prominent Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny was released from prison in western Russia after serving a 3-1/2 year sentence.
Russian investigators have blamed human error for a plane crash outside Moscow earlier this year that killed all 71 people on board.
The World Cup has transformed Russia's streets into a global carnival of songs, dancing, and weird costumes.
The Russian government has submitted proposed pension-reform legislation that would raise the retirement age -- long a sensitive issue in Russia.
Argentinian soccer legend Diego Maradona was prevented from entering a VIP parking lot at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium on the opening day of the World Cup in Russia despite pleas from his entourage.
Ukrainian ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova says she was prevented from meeting with jailed filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who is on hunger strike in prison in far northern Russia following a terrorism conviction he says was fabricated.
Demonstrators have taken to the center of Moscow to protest against mass violations of human rights in Russia and to call for the release of political prisoners.
The editor in chief of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, Nikolai Uskov, has been fired.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has asked a Moscow court to extend by one year the five-year suspended prison sentence that opposition leader Aleksei Navalny is currently serving on an embezzlement conviction in the so-called Kirovles case.
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who opposed Moscow's 2014 seizure of Crimea and is now on a hunger strike in a Russian prison colony, could be force-fed if his vital organs begin to fail, according to his lawyer.
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