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A Moscow court has again postponed the posthumous trial of Sergei Magnitksy, a whistle-blowing Russian lawyer who died in detention in 2009.
Tens of thousands of protesters have held a sanctioned march through the center of Moscow to protest a recently adopted law that bans the adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens.
Moscow police have detained dozens of protesters and several opposition leaders to disperse an unsanctioned rally in a square outside the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB).
Yusup Temirkhanov, an ethnic Chechen, is charged with killing Russian Army Colonel Yury Budanov, who was convicted of murdering a Chechen girl.
A Moscow court has released the defendant in a high-profile case that sparked ethnic tensions.
In Moscow, several thousand people marched peacefully in a sanctioned demonstration through the center of the city -- the first time the authorities have authorized such a march in the city center. But elsewhere, there were detentions and arrests.
The new Georgian prime minister's envoy to Russia says talks with Moscow should be held in a new format.
The Warsaw district prosecutor's office says a key witness in the investigation of 2010's Polish presidential plane crash is dead.
Russia has been marking the 10th anniversary of the end of the Dubrovka theater siege in which nearly 200 people were killed.
Russian media have quoted investigators there saying an aide to a State Duma deputy has signed a statement alleging that a Georgian official financed an opposition demonstration in Moscow in May that ended in scuffles with police.
A suspect in the high-profile murder of Russian Colonel Yury Budanov has reportedly been beaten while in custody.
Russian opposition activists gathered in Moscow on August 19 to mark the anniversary of a failed Soviet coup more than 20 years ago.
Some 20 activists held an action to support the feminist punk performance-art group Pussy Riot in Moscow on August 15.
The verdict of three members of the Pussy Riot female Russian punk group will be handed down on August 17.
The lawyers of three members of the Pussy Riot female punk group have asked a Moscow court to acquit their clients after the prosecution had called for a three-year jail sentence.
Russian blogger and opposition leader Aleksei Navalny is expected to meet with investigators in Moscow in connection with a probe into losses at a state-owned firm.
A prominent member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has criticized a move by the Russian State Duma to reintroduce slander as a criminal offense.
Russian police say they have opened criminal investigations following a conflict between village locals and migrants from the North Caucasus in the Kirov region, in the central part of European Russia.
A Moscow court has prolonged until at least July 24 the pretrial detention of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Maria Alyokhina, three members of the female punk rock group Pussy Riot, which is accused of hooliganism.
At least four people have been detained in Moscow outside the building of Russia's Investigative Committee, after activists started what they call an "Occupy the Investigative Committee" campaign.
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