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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.
Doctors have warned Ukrainian director Oleh Sentsov, who is on hunger strike in a Russian prison colony, that he will be force-fed if his vital organs start to fail. Sentsov is serving a 20-year sentence on terror charges criticized in the West as politically motivated.
Kyiv and journalism watchdogs have strongly condemned the sentence given to Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko by a Russian court after it convicted him of spying.
A Russian court has sentenced Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko to 12 years in prison after convicting him of spying in a case that Kyiv and rights activists say is politically motivated.
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who opposed Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea and is now on hunger strike in a Russian prison, has agreed to receive medical treatment, Russia's prison authorities say.
A Russian court has ordered the head of the Emergency Situations Ministry's branch in the Kemerovo region be kept in pretrial detention for two months in connection with a shopping-mall fire that killed dozens of people in March.
The head of Russia's Far Eastern Sakha Republic has announced his resignation.
Russian prosecutors are seeking a 14-year prison term for Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko, who is on trial in Moscow on espionage charges in a case viewed by Kyiv and rights activists as politically motivated.
Another aide of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has been jailed over nationwide protests against President Vladimir Putin.
Russian investigators have opened a criminal case against top officials at the Ministry of Emergency Situations branch in the Kemerovo region in connection with a shopping-mall fire that killed dozens of people in March.
Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska has resigned from his position as director of his aluminum firm Rusal, in the latest move that he hopes will persuade the U.S. administration to ease sanctions targeting him and his companies.
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