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Nikolai Kavkazsky, a key defendant in the series of trials against Russians who participated in a May 2012 demonstration at Moscow's Bolotnaya Square, has been attacked and beaten by two unknown assailants.
A Moscow court on September 10 acquitted four people and found one guilty of hooliganism and vandalism for taking part in a pro-Ukraine stunt.
Russian journalist Oleg Kashin has released the names of three men who have been charged with severely beating him in a 2010 attack in which he nearly died, and he expressed fears for his safety in connection with the influential figures he believes ordered the attack.
A Russian activist in the southern region of Krasnodar went on trial on September 3 on charges of propagating extremism and separatism via the Internet.
A Russian court has sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov to 20 years in prison for plotting "terrorist acts" in Crimea. His co-defendant, fellow Ukrainian Oleksandr Kolchenko, was sentenced to 10 years.
The chief editor of the opposition website Asia-Russia Today has been severely beaten by unknown attackers.
Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks has criticized Russian moves to ban 12 foreign organizations under a law lawmakers say is needed against "undesirable" groups that threaten Russia's security.
Investigators in Russia have increased the seriousness of charges against captive Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko, accusing her of direct participation in the killing of two Russian reporters.
A correspondent for a Russian newspaper that has challenged the Kremlin's narrative about the conflict in Ukraine says he was detained, struck in the face, and deported by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
At least 500 people have held a rare antiwar protest in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, Ukraine, calling on separatists to remove rocket launchers from residential neighborhoods where they provoke fire from government troops.
A teenager left his Siberian home, student life, and pressure from law-enforcement authorities behind to fight against Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine. He spoke to RFE/RL about the life he chose and the one he left behind.
The long-awaited trial of an alleged Russian ultranationalist leader accused of high-profile, murderous hate crimes has begun.
Lyudmila Alekseyeva, one of Russia's most outspoken and widely respected rights advocates, has returned to President Vladimir Putin's council on human rights and civil society three years after quitting the advisory body.
The Russian daily Novaya Gazeta has denied reports that one of its journalists fled Chechnya after receiving threats to her life related to her investigative reporting in the North Caucasus republic.
Many in the former Soviet Union remember lining up for vodka or struggling to find a stiff drink during Mikhail Gorbachev's antialcohol campaign in the 1980s.
Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky is in an induced coma in a private German clinic after undergoing emergency surgery on his heart.
A court in Moscow has found a former Defense Ministry official guilty of embezzlement in a multimillion-dollar corruption scandal that led to the ouster of her boss in 2012.
Outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny and his brother Oleg have been awarded a top prize awarded to raise awareness about totalitarian regimes.
A historian from Crimea, Oleksiy Chyrniy, has been sentenced to seven years in jail in Russia on terrorism charges.
Twenty workers at a space launch facility Russia is building in its Far East have begun a new hunger strike to demand overdue wages.
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