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A Russian court has ordered house arrest for four Muscovites accused of hanging a Ukrainian flag from a Soviet-era star atop a building near the Kremlin.
The editor-in-chief of the independent Russian news website Amurburg.ru says he has been detained by security officers following a trip to Georgia.
A well-known Russian opposition activist has been stabbed and hospitalized in the country’s second largest city, St. Petersburg.
Thousands of Muscovites bid farewell on July 16 to prominent political opposition figure and Soviet-era dissident Valeriya Novodvorskaya.
Remembering slain Chechen rights activist and journalist Natalya Estemirova in pictures.
A new law in Russia that bans the use of "foul words" in the arts came into force on July 1.
A well-known activist for press freedom in Russia is being held at a St. Petersburg airport after being stopped on her way to the United States.
One more Russian activist has been arrested in connection with the mass protest action on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square two years ago.
Former Polish President Lech Walesa has criticized leaders of Ukraine's pro-European Maidan protest movement for failing to negotiate with the former government, thus giving Russia a pretext for intervention.
A civic activist and blogger in Russia's Mari El Republic has been stabbed after staging a pro-Ukraine rally.
Police have detained several activists who were trying to hold a rally on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on the second anniversary of unrest that broke out there
Two of Russia's leading opposition figures, Boris Nemtsov and Aleksei Navalny, have been sent to jail on charges of disobeying police during an unsanctioned public gathering.
A Moscow court has sentenced seven of the eight defendants in the Bolotnaya Square case to jail terms of between 2 1/2 to four years.
The Moscow City Court has adjourned the trial of two Russian opposition activists, Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhayev, until February 25.
A Moscow court has opened the trial of two Russian opposition activists, Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhayev.
An opinion poll by Russia's independent Levada polling center shows Russians are unhappy about perceived corruption linked to the Winter Olympics in Sochi but would be disappointed if Russian teams were not among medal winners.
Russian independent television station Dozhd, which faces closure after it conducted a controversial poll, is offering its content free to cable channels.
A well-known civil society activist has been arrested in the Russian city of Tuapse, part of the Sochi area where the Winter Olympics will take place.
A march, sanctioned by the Moscow authorities, in support of people still detained or jailed for a May 2012 protest has started in Moscow.
A number of cable providers in Russia have suspended broadcasts by Dozhd TV for conducting a controversial poll about the Leningrad Blockade during World War II. The station's supporters, however, say the poll is only a pretext for the Kremlin to put pressure on Russia's best-known opposition television outlet.
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