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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he is confident he will win the country's upcoming presidential election on March 4, and that recent protests against his continued rule have made him a stronger candidate.
Moscow City Court has ruled that investigations of deceased attorney Sergei Magnitsky are proper and legal and can continue.
An activist of Russia’s opposition Solidarity movement has been arrested sent to a psychiatric clinic for alleged antigovernment action.
Russia's state-run Channel One television has reported that Russian and Ukrainian intelligence agents have uncovered an alleged plot to kill Prime Minister Vladimir Putin after the March 4 presidential election and a group of suspects has been arrested.
Imprisoned tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has urged Russians to snub presidential favorite Vladimir Putin and vote for "alternative" candidates in the March 4 election.
Russia’s republic of Ingushetia has commemorated the victims of the 1944 deportation of Chechens and Ingush from the North Caucasus.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has addressed a massive rally at a stadium in central Moscow called to support his campaign for the presidency in the March 4 election.
Authorities in the Russian Siberian city of Barnaul have rejected an application for a protest involving toys.
A court in western Russia has annulled the 10-year prison sentence handed down to an opposition activist jailed on drug charges her supporters say were politically motivated.
The chief editor of Russia's leading liberal radio station, Ekho Moskvy, says a surprise management reshuffle is aimed at dictating the station's coverage ahead of presidential elections on March 4.
The Russian Federal Migration Service has announced that the head of the agency's department in Vladimir Oblast has been fired for improperly deporting a French journalist from Russia.
Russian anticorruption blogger and opposition political activist Aleksei Navalny has been nominated for a spot on the board of directors of Russia's national air carrier, Aeroflot.
Authorities in the Siberian city of Barnaul have declared it is now illegal to organize antigovernment demonstrations using toy collections -- unless such protests have received permission from officials in advance.
A former opposition candidate for the de facto presidency of the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia is in "serious but stable" condition after being taken to a hospital on February 9.
The Russian Supreme Court upheld a Central Election Commission decision to bar liberal opposition politician Grigory Yavlinsky from next month's presidential election.
Officials say 39 Russian soldiers in one unit have been hospitalized and one has died from pneumonia in the Krasnoyarsk Krai region in Siberia.
