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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.
Ali Feruz, a journalist who fled Uzbekistan 10 years ago after being tortured in detention, arrived in Germany in mid-February after six months in a Russian immigration detention center. A court had charged Feruz with working illegally in Russia and ordered his deportation.
A spate of vandalism targeting Vladimir Putin's campaign ads sends local police across Russia scrambling for their car heaters.
A court in Paris has prolonged the pretrial detention of the Russian protest artist Pyotr Pavlensky, who was detained in October after setting fire to an entrance of the Bank of France in the French capital.
The United Nations Security Council has rejected an appeal from UN aid officials for a monthlong humanitarian cease-fire in Syria amid separate calls by the United States for Syria and its ally Russia to end their attacks against rebel-held areas.
Tens of thousands of Muscovites have come out for a government-organized concert and demonstration under the slogan "Russia In My Heart."
Russian opposition activist Konstantin Sinitsyn has been found dead of head injuries in the entranceway to his St. Petersburg apartment building.
The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that an Su-25 close-support military aircraft was shot down over Syria on February 3 and the pilot was killed.
A group of Russian cadets from an aviation institute in the city of Ulyanovsk has been officially reprimanded for participating in a video showing them dancing provocatively and twerking in their underwear.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend ceremonies in the city formerly known as Stalingrad as it marks the 75th anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles in World War II.
A Moscow court has sentenced a prominent associate of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny to eight days in jail on charges of participating in an illegal demonstration.
Police in Moscow have arrested two prominent associates of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny on charges of urging people to participate in an illegal public demonstration.
Rights activists say two Russian men whose marriage in Denmark was indirectly acknowledged by Russian authorities have fled the country, citing a "real threat" to their liberty and security.
Six-time Olympic champion Viktor Ahn has demanded an explanation from the International Olympic Committee as to why he was barred from competing at the Winter Games next month in Pyeongchang.
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