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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.
The woman at the center of Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's recent report about an alleged meeting between billionaire Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko has asked for political asylum from the U.S. Embassy in Thailand, where she and an associate were detained after a police raid on a "sex training" seminar.
There has been no contact with six men from one Russian village since an incident in Syria on February 7, when a large number of Russian mercenaries were reportedly killed by U.S. air strikes.
One day after a blogger in Komi posted a video that she said showed police spray-painting pro-Putin graffiti on a fence, the fence itself vanished.
Russian experts have found Yury Dmitriyev, a historian and activist who is being tried on child pornography charges his supporters say are politically motivated, psychologically healthy.
A leading member of the Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, has been detained in Russian-occupied Crimea for the second time in two days.
Cast your ballot or find a gay man in your bed -- that's the message of a viral video urging people to vote in Russia's presidential election. Various forms of pressure are being applied amid opposition calls to stay home on polling day.
From the safety of Germany, an Uzbek journalist speaks openly about the end of his decade-long effort to escape torture in Uzbekistan.
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