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Seven men suspected of illegal banking activities with possible links to a banned Islamic group have been arrested in Moscow and Russia's Perm Oblast.
A court in St. Petersburg has granted bail to five more Greenpeace activists.
A court in St. Petersburg has granted bail to six more Greenpeace activists, including the ship's American captain, Peter Willcox.
Russia's sports minister has said that passing the so-called gay-propaganda law before the Winter Olympics in Sochi was a mistake.
Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny has been chosen as chairman of the new Popular Alliance party.
The husband of jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova says he hopes to visit his wife in her Siberian prison next week.
Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has asked Russia's Supreme Court to throw out her conviction and prison sentence.
Moscow police have detained at least 14 people for conducting an unsanctioned demonstration in support of people held in custody over the so-called Bolotnaya case.
Thousands of Russian nationalists have marched in Moscow -- with several detained by police after refusing to remove black balaclavas or waving nationalist flags of black, yellow, and white.
Russia's Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence of Aleksei Pichugin, the imprisoned former head of security for the now-defunct Yukos oil company, defying a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Extra police have been deployed to a district in Moscow after some of the worst anti-migrant unrest in the Russian capital in three years.
A group of young men have stormed a shopping center in southwest Moscow, smashing windows, throwing flares, and chanting nationalist slogans following the murder of a local young man that was blamed on migrant workers.
The Executive Director of Greenpeace International says he is ready to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to secure the release of his people from Russian custody.
A court in Moscow has found Mikhail Kosenko guilty of assaulting a police officer and participating in the mass antigovernment unrest on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square in May 2012.
Rights activists and supporters are commemorating the death of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya on the seventh anniversary of her murder.
A court in Nizhny Novgorod has postponed a hearing into a motion filed by a jailed member of the Russian feminist performance-art group Pussy Riot to mitigate her sentence.
U.S. Senator John McCain has defended an opinion piece he wrote for the Russian website Pravda in which he said Russians deserve better than the policies of President Vladimir Putin’s government.
Russia's State Duma was scheduled to conduct a second reading of a controversial law to reform the country's Academy of Sciences.
The Russian Union of Journalists has awarded its first Anna Politkovskaya prize to an investigative journalist who, like Politkovskaya herself, writes about Russia's restive North Caucasus.
Authorities in the Far Eastern Russian city of Komsomolsk-na-Amure have started evacuating local residents as unprecedented flooding caused by heavy rain continues in the region.
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