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A parole hearing in the Russian town of Berezniki has been adjourned until May 23 after a jailed member of the all-female opposition group Pussy Riot refused to continue taking part via video-link.
Jailed Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina has had one of two prison reprimands dismissed.
Russian film director Aleksei Balabanov, whose films include the 1997 crime film "Brother" (Brat) and its sequel, "Brother-2," died after collapsing from an apparent heart attack in the village of Solnechnoye outside St. Petersburg.
The trial of opposition figure and anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny has resumed in the central Russian city of Kirov.
Russia’s only independent polling agency has reportedly been asked to register as a "foreign agent" after authorities claimed it had received funding from abroad.
Moscow's prosecutor-general has urged the Memorial human rights center to comply with a new law on nongovernmental organizations requiring some NGOs to register as "foreign agents."
Anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny and his defense lawyers have been questioning a key government witness in the embezzlement case against him.
Russian civil rights activist Konstantin Lebedev has been convicted of organizing mass disorders in Moscow last year.
A Moscow court has fined a prominent organization that independently monitors Russian elections for refusal to comply with a new law on nongovernmental organizations.
In a wide-ranging question-and-answer session, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he hopes the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings will bring Russia and the United States closer together in combating terrorism.
A court in the central Russian city of Kirov has rejected all motions by the defense team of anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny to delay his trial.
An independent investigation has blamed the Russian authorities and police for the violence that erupted at an opposition protest on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square last year.
A court in Russia's Kirov Oblast has rejected a request from anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny for a further delay in his trial.
Hundreds of protesters have rallied in central Moscow to demand the release of political activists jailed after clashes with the police last year.
Authorities in the Russian city of St. Petersburg have investigated the operations of the international Catholic charity group Caritas.
Russian authorities are continuing their inspections of nongovernmental organizations around the country.
Russia's Investigative Committee has dropped its investigation into the death of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, according to a statement posted to the committee's official website.
A prominent Russian blogger and photographer has been detained at St. Petersburg's airport and held overnight.
The Moscow-based Sova Center says the level of xenophobia and radical nationalism in Russia remained high last year.
Sixteen people were detained at a rally in Moscow where protesters were demanding equal rights for women.
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