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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.
A Russian opposition activist has been convicted in absentia of assaulting police and sentenced to four years and six months in prison.
A Russian civil and gay rights activist, Kirill Kalugin, has applied for political asylum in Germany.
A Crimean Tatar has been detained in connection with clashes between Russian police and Crimean Tatars.
A prominent Russian gay rights activist and journalist has asked for political asylum in Germany.
Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus has received an annual award named after the late Russian reformer Yegor Gaidar.
The editor-in-chief of an independent Russian news website has been prevented from traveling abroad.
Well-known Soviet-era dissident and human rights activist Valery Senderov has died at the age of 69.
The editor in chief of an independent Russian news website says he has been detained at the airport in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk.
An ethnic Buryat woman crowned "Mrs. St. Petersburg" last week says she is surprised by racial taunts she endured after making critical comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The house arrest of an associate of outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has been extended.
Journalists honored the late Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya by bringing paper flowers to the headquarters of her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, on the eighth anniversary of her murder.
Moscow has seen its largest opposition protest since President Vladimir Putin's inauguration to a third presidential term in May 2012.
Anti-gay activists led by a city lawmaker have disrupted a gay rights festival in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, dousing participants with green liquid and releasing a gas that made many feel sick.
Russian police have detained journalist Dmitry Shipilov hours after the publication of his interview with an advocate of greater autonomy for Siberian provinces.
A Russian student imprisoned over a May 2012 protest against President Vladimir Putin has been released, becoming the first of the so-called Bolotnaya defendants to be freed.
A prominent activist and gay rights advocate from St. Petersburg says she has left Russia after receiving death threats following her participation in a rally in support of Ukraine.
A nongovernmental organization representing the parents of the nearly 200 children killed at a school in the Russian town of Beslan 10 years ago say they are seeking justice abroad as Russian courts have failed them.
A Russian opposition activist has been placed under arrest for 15 days after an incident in which his wife said he did nothing wrong.
A correspondent for Russia's Ekho Moskvy radio has been attacked while covering single-person pickets supporting Ukraine in St. Petersburg.
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