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Prosecutors in St. Petersburg have launched an investigation into a decision by the Dozhd TV station to conduct a poll asking viewers whether surrendering Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, during the Nazi siege in World War II would have been more humane.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has criticized the decision of the Dozhd TV station to conduct a poll asking viewers if surrendering Leningrad during the Nazi siege of World War II would have been more humane.
The Moscow City Court is resuming hearings into the murder of Russian investigative reporter and human rights campaigner Anna Politkovskaya.
The Moscow City Court has postponed hearings into the murder of Russian investigative reporter and human rights campaigner Anna Politkovskaya.
The Moscow City Court has appointed a new jury in the trial of five men suspected of involvement in the murder of Russian investigative reporter and human rights campaigner Anna Politkovskaya.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on January 13 that Sergei Mokhnatkin is now suspected of assaulting a second police officer -- a female -- during a Strategy-31 protest in Moscow last month.
The New York-based watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published a guide to the Sochi Winter Olympics and Paralympics for journalists that outlines coverage risks and widespread human rights abuses that it says "contradict the values in the Olympic charter."
In a statement issued on January 13, the Russian Investigative Committee's press service said police had raided an apartment belonging to Chechen lawyer Murad Musayev in connection with a criminal case launched against him in November.
A Russian art teacher whose imprisonment sparked protests has been freed following the intervention of President Vladimir Putin.
A Russian court in Yekaterinburg has imposed a 24-month work ban on a prominent journalist after finding her guilty of extortion.
Moscow's two main international airports have announced a total ban on liquids in carry-on baggage amid a security crackdown ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
After Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were freed from prison as part of an amnesty, they described Russian President Vladimir Putin's clemency as "laughable" and a "PR stunt."
A prominent Russian environmental activist has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he plans to pardon jailed former oligarch and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
The office of Moldovan President Nicolae Timofti says he will not attend the opening ceremonies of the Sochi Winter Olympics in February next year.
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul says the United States will send a presidential delegation to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, but it has not been decided yet who will lead that delegation.
According to the latest report by the Sova Center for Information and Analysis, 19 people have been killed and 168 have been injured in ethnically motivated attacks in Russia so far this year.
The Russian Investigative Committee is asking the U.S. attorney general to verify reports of alleged violations of the rights of 26 Russian orphans adopted by American families.
Lawyer Semyon Ariya, who defended dissidents in the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 90.
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