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Russian journalist, activist, and Internet pioneer Anton Nosik has been buried in Moscow.
Police in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk have detained a local coordinator of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's presidential election campaign and confiscated campaign materials.
A Russian court has reduced by more than a year a suspended sentence handed down to a blogger convicted of inciting hatred and insulting religious believers' feelings through online videos, including one showing him playing Pokemon Go in a church.
The Bolshoi Theatre has called off the world premiere of Nureyev, a ballet about a famous Russian dancer, just days before it was to take place.
Well-known Russian journalist, blogger, and Internet pioneer Anton Nosik has died in Moscow at the age of 51.
Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, citing two unidentified sources, has reported that security forces in Chechnya summarily executed 27 people on the night of January 26.
Russian police on July 7 briefly detained the coordinator of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's campaign office in the city of Perm, just hours before Navalny was scheduled to be released from jail.
At least 14 people died, two of them children, in a collision between a truck and a bus near the city of Zainsk in Russia's Tatarstan region, authorities say.
Five men accused of carrying out the 2015 killing of former Russian First Deputy Prime Minister and opposition politician Boris Nemtsov have been found guilty.
Russia's Federation Council has approved controversial legislation to demolish thousands of Soviet-era apartment buildings in Moscow.
The second day of jury deliberations in the trial of five men charged in connection with the 2015 killing of Russian opposition politician and former First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov has been completed and the court has adjourned until June 29.
Jury deliberations in the trial of five men who are charged in connection with the 2015 killing of opposition politician and former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov have resumed after two jurors were dismissed for procedural violations.
Russia's lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, has approved a bill that would allow classifying personal data of top officials and other individuals who are under the protection of the Federal Guard Service (FSO).
Jury deliberations in the Moscow trial of five men from the Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya who are charged in connection with the 2015 killing of opposition politician and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov have been suspended until next week.
A German family whose abortive move to Siberia to escape "sexual permissiveness" in the West mulls another try at Russian life.
A request by Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's jailed brother to have his sentence mitigated has been rejected by a court.
A Russian court has sentenced opposition leader Aleksei Navalny to 30 days in jail for staging unsanctioned rallies at which an estimated 1,150 anticorruption protesters were detained.
A Chechen man who was returned to Russia by Belarusian authorities, despite warnings that he could be tortured or killed by Chechen authorities, was released from custody in Grozny late on June 9 on his own recognizance.
Belarusian authorities have sent a man who is wanted in Chechnya back to Russia despite pleas from relatives and warnings from human rights activists that he could be tortured or killed by Chechen law-enforcement authorities.
Police have detained at least three people as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Russian parliament during a vote on a controversial plan to raze thousands of Soviet-era apartment blocs in Moscow.
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