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Russian civil rights activist Pavel Shekhtman plans to request political asylum in Ukraine.
A district court in Moscow is expected to review the case against Sveltana Davydova, a woman from Vyazma who is accused of treason for allegedly telephoning the Ukrainian Embassy and informing it about Russian troop movements.
A coalition of Russian opposition activists has applied to the Moscow authorities for permission to hold a mass demonstration in the capital on March 1.
Investigators in Moscow have searched the apartment belonging to the parents of an associate of outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny.
A Moscow court has extended the pretrial detention period for Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko until May 13.
Russian officials say 34 illegal labor migrants from Central Asia were detained in the city of St. Petersburg.
Svetlana Davydova’s husband said his wife phoned the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow in April and said that a military base near their home had emptied out, suggesting the soldiers may have been deployed to Ukraine.
A concert by a Russian singer has been cancelled after he performed a song he wrote that is critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia's Investigative Committee has launched investigations against civil rights activist Mark Galperin, accusing him of "multiple violation of the law on public gatherings."
Antifascist activists are holding marches in Russian cities to honor human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were gunned down in Moscow six years ago.
Russian authorities say they are investigating claims that opposition leader Aleksei Navalny’s anticorruption foundation misused donations from its supporters.
Two unknown men have severely beaten a local journalist in Russia's southwestern city of Saratov.
A series of single-person protests are being held in western Siberian city of Tomsk, with demonstrators calling for an independent regional television station to be allowed to resume terrestrial broadcasts.
Russian authorities are investigating a woman in the city of Yekaterinburg on suspicion of inciting extremism online after she joined Ukrainian nationalist groups on the Internet.
Russian authorities say a former Russian air force general committed suicide in Moscow on January 6 by hanging himself.
A nongovernmental organization in the Russian city of Volgograd has been added to the list of "foreign agents' on the Justice Ministry's request.
One of the Russians who was imprisoned after the May 6, 2012, protest on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square against Russian President Vladimir Putin has been released.
Gleb Yakunin, a prominent Russian priest and a veteran member of the Moscow Helsinki rights group has died after a long illness in Moscow.
Police in Moscow detained 19 activists near the International Trade Center building where President Vladimir Putin held his annual news conference on December 18.
Supporters of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, disrupted a human rights group’s press conference in Moscow on December 11 by pelting the group's leader with eggs at close range.
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