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Russia has sent hundreds of security forces to a town south of Moscow to disperse a rally by local Roma residents angry over a gas supply cutoff.
A leading Russian rights activist has been attacked by masked men in Grozny, pelted with eggs, paint, and a cake after he was evicted from the hotel he was staying in.
A spokesman for Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, says he has officially asked Russian prosecutors to open a criminal case against an opposition leader for "inciting ethnic and religious discord."
Russian activists in the city of St. Petersburg have staged an protest calling for the release of jailed Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko.
An organizer of an upcoming march to commemorate slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov has been severely beaten in Russia's Urals city of Chelyabinsk.
An improvised memorial near the Kremlin where Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was gunned down nearly a year ago has been vandalized for a fourth time since the beginning of the year.
At least seven people, including two children, have been killed by a gas explosion that ripped through a residential building in the central Russian city of Yaroslavl early on February 16.
A former Russian Interior Ministry officer who was sent to prison after claiming that soldiers were fed dog food has been released. He had served more than four years.
Russians with mortgages denominated in a foreign currency are continuing to protest at their banks to demand the loans be restructured following the collapse of Russia's ruble currency.
A court in Russia's northwestern city of Murmansk has fined a local activist for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights on charges of propagating "nontraditional sexual relations among minors."
The speaker of the rubber-stamp legislature of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya has issued a harsh statement accusing opposition figures and media of being "traitors" under the control of Western security agencies.
A noted Russian political analyst and journalist, Vladimir Pribylovsky, has reportedly been found dead at the age of 59.
Russia has expelled a Polish journalist days after Warsaw forced a Russian reporter out of the country.
A Moscow court on December 17 released a Russian man who was jailed after taking part in a stunt in the Russian capital as part of a pro-Ukraine demonstration.
At least 33 people, including the leader of Russia's opposition Yabloko party, have been detained by police at an unsanctioned rally in the center of Moscow to mark the Constitution Day holiday.
Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov will lead Russia's democratic opposition in the country's 2016 parliamentary elections.
Russia's Justice Ministry has placed the Mashr (Peace) human rights organization in the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia on its official register of organizations "operating as foreign agents."
A group of ethnic Poles from Ukraine's conflict-torn eastern region of Donetsk has arrived in Poland.
Special security forces have been deployed to a town in Russia's Siberian region of Irkutsk following clashes between local residents and soldiers.
Russia's Justice Ministry has accused the prominent nongovernmental organization Memorial of "undermining the foundations of the constitutional order of the Russian Federation."
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