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A Russian Health Ministry official says the HIV infection rate in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg has reached epidemic levels.
Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor has asked a court to authorize the blocking of the U.S. professional-networking website LinkedIn.
Some 80 international human-rights nongovernmental organizations have issued a statement urging United Nations countries to consider whether Russia's role in Syria "renders it unfit to serve" on the UN Human Rights Council.
Russia's first-ever publicly displayed statue of the controversial 16th-century tsar, Ivan the Terrible, has been unveiled by authorities in the city of Oryol amid protests by city residents.
The lawyer for a Ukrainian journalist held in Moscow on charges of espionage says he was briefly prevented from leaving Russia.
Several dozen people in Moscow have attended a somber memorial service to mark the 10th anniversary of the murder of prominent investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Officials in Russia's second largest city, St. Petersburg, are now required to report about their contacts with foreign entities every three months.
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has said Russia must treat former Soviet republics as full-fledged members of the international community.
Dozens of people, some of them in military and traditional Cossack uniforms, have destroyed photos taken from a conflict zone in eastern Ukraine at an exhibition in Moscow.
Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has protested a ruling by Russia's Supreme Court that upheld a ban on the Mejlis, the self-governing body of Crimean Tatars in Ukraine's occupied territory of Crimea.
The well-known anti-Putin protester Roman Roslovtsev has been detained in Moscow again while carrying out a one-person demonstration.
A controversial Moscow photography exhibition that critics say amounts to "child pornography" has been closed down following a protest by conservative activists.
A founding member of the group Voina (War), Oleg Vorotnikov, his wife and fellow activist, Natalya Sokol, and their daughter were detained on September 18.
Russian tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky has launched a project to identify replacements for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the 2018 presidential election.
Municipal authorities in Moscow have denied permission for a commemoration march to mark the 25th anniversary of the failed hard-line coup attempt against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
A court in Russia has refused to grant early release on parole to a Russian activist in the southern region of Krasnodar who was jailed on charges of propagating extremism and separatism via the Internet.
The leader of the Russian opposition PARNAS party, Mikhail Kasyanov, has been reportedly attacked by unknown individuals in the southern city of Stavropol.
The prominent Russian-American sculptor Ernst Neizvestny has died in New York City at the age of 91.
Russian opposition politician and activist Maksim Reznik has been denied registration to run for reelection to St. Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly.
A court in Moscow has refused to change the suspended sentence of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny to an actual prison term.
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