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Eight Russians have announced a hunger strike at a Moscow branch of Austria's Raiffeisenbank.
Several hundred people rallied outside the Russian parliament on June 6 to protest a plan to demolish Soviet-era low-rise apartment blocks.
A native of Chechnya who claimed in 2013 that he was tortured by police has managed to narrowly escape transfer to Grozny, the Chechen capital, following his release from custody in Russia's Bryansk region, a rights group says.
The deputy governor of Russia's Kursk Oblast has been arrested on suspicion of corruption.
A man in the Russian region of Tatarstan has been awarded compensation after a court found that he had been tortured by police.
A Chechen man who claimed in 2013 that he was tortured by police has been detained in Russia's Bryansk region.
A Chechen man whom Russian authorities accuse of plotting to kill President Vladimir Putin was shot and wounded in Kyiv in what Ukrainian police say was an assassination attempt.
A Russian court has ordered the release of an activist who was forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital in 2015 after making online calls for the establishment of a "Urals people's republic."
A Moscow court has ruled in favor of Kremlin-connected oligarch Alisher Usmanov in his defamation lawsuit against opposition politician and anticorruption activist Aleksei Navalny.
A Russian judge has rejected a series of legal motions filed by anticorruption activist Aleksei Navalny, as a defamation lawsuit filed by Kremlin-connected oligarch Alisher Usmanov got under way.
A Moscow court has begun hearings in the case of a defamation lawsuit filed by Kremlin-connected oligarch Alisher Usmanov against opposition politician and anticorruption activist Aleksei Navalny.
The head of Russia's renowned Bolshoi Theater has sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin criticizing the treatment of a prominent director who was subjected to searches and questioning in an embezzlement investigation.
Investigators searched a Moscow theater and the home of a prominent director who has attended antigovernment protests and voiced concern about the increasing influence of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Two people from the Russian region of Tatarstan have been detained on Moscow's Red Square while attempting to present President Vladimir Putin with an icon.
A Russian court has declined to imprison a blogger after convicting him of inciting hatred and insulting the feelings of religious believers with YouTube videos, including one showing him playing Pokemon Go in a church.
Thousands of Russian opposition activists held a rally in Moscow on May 6 to mark five years since the 2012 Bolotnaya Square antigovernment protest in Moscow.
Dozens of people have been detained while taking part in a protest campaign in many Russian cities urging President Vladimir Putin not to run in the country's presidential election next year.
Activists in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk have mounted a petition campaign against plans to build a Russian Orthodox church in the city center on the bank of the Yenisei River.
A gay rights group in Russia has filed a defamation suit against the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta over its reports on the persecution of homosexuals in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya.
A bill that would bar children under 14 from social networks and place other restrictions on Internet use has been submitted to Russia's parliament, but a lukewarm reception from the Kremlin appeared to cloud its prospects for passage.
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