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Aleksei Navalny was detained by police at a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin on May 5 in Moscow, part of a nationwide protest action organized by the Russian opposition leader.
The Supreme Court in Russia's Chechnya region has rejected an appeal by the chief of the human rights group Memorial's office in Grozny, Oyub Titiyev, against the extension of his pretrial detention until June 9.
Supporters of Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny in several cities have been detained a day before planned protests against President Vladimir Putin, who starts a new term on May 7.
Thousands of people threw paper airplanes in central Moscow to protest against efforts by the Russian government to block the Telegram messaging app.
Thousands of demonstrators are protesting in downtown Moscow against the Russian government's efforts to block the popular messaging app Telegram.
Local lawmakers in the town of Volokolamsk in the Moscow region have set a date for a referendum on the closure of a garbage dump that has been emitting toxic fumes and prompting protests by residents for months.
A bust of the Russian Federation's first president, Boris Yeltsin, has been unveiled in downtown Moscow, the 11th anniversary of his death.
Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina has been sentenced to 100 hours of community service for throwing paper airplanes in support of the Telegram messaging app -- which Russia is trying to block.
Russian investigative journalist Maksim Borodin of Yekaterinburg has died of injuries sustained on April 12 when he fell from the window of his fifth-floor apartment.
Police have searched the house of the mayor of a town near Moscow where a garbage dump has sparked protests by residents angered by the toxic fumes emitted from the site.
A Russian court has ordered that access to the Telegram messaging app should be blocked in Russia, state-run media reported.
A court in Moscow has upheld an eight-year prison term for former Russian Economy Minister Aleksei Ulyukayev.
A week after he resigned as Kemerovo governor, citing an unbearable "moral" burden following a shopping-mall fire that killed 64 people, veteran Russian politician Aman Tuleyev is expected to be elected as speaker of the regional legislature.
Russian opposition blogger Mikhail Svetov says he was beaten and sent back to Moscow upon his arrival at the airport in Kemerovo, a Siberian city where at least 64 people were killed in a shopping-mall fire last month.
A Moscow court has placed billionaire businessman Ziyavudin Magomedov, his brother, and an associate under arrest for two months on charge of embezzling billions of rubles in state funds.
Blocked fire exits, a shut-down alarm system, and "glaring violations" of safety rules exacerbated the human toll of a fire that swept though a busy Siberian shopping mall, killing 64 people as panicked visitors jumped from windows and banged on doors in an attempt to escape, Russian investigators say.
At least 64 people have been killed and many others injured in a massive fire at a shopping center in Siberia.
About 1,000 people have protested again in Volokolamsk, some 100 kilometers west of Moscow, demanding the closure of a landfill that has been leaking toxic gas that harmed dozens of children this week.
Angry residents scuffled with government officials in a town near Moscow where dozens of children were brought to hospital after apparently breathing toxic gas leaked from a landfill.
An influential Russian lawmaker who is accused of sexually harassing several journalists has asked for forgiveness amid growing calls for his resignation.
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