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Officers of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) have detained the former prefect of Moscow’s Northern Administrative Precinct, Oleg Mitvol, as he tried to leave Russia on a flight from Moscow’s Vnukovo airport.
A group of Russian lawmakers have submitted a new bill that would further restrict citizens' right to hold peaceful demonstrations and protest rallies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin compared the war against Ukraine to Peter the Great’s conquest during the 18th century as the Russian leader on June 9 paid tribute to the tsar on the 350th anniversary of his birth.
Volkswagen is offering compensation to employees who voluntarily quit their jobs at a plant in Russia, the German automaker has said as sanctions related to the war in Ukraine take hold.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has slammed the death sentences that Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine say their top court handed down to two British nationals and a Moroccan for being "mercenaries" and fighting with the Ukrainian armed forces.
An artist in St. Petersburg who was arrested for using price tags in a city store to distribute information about Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has been forcibly committed to a psychiatric clinic for examination, a move that echoes a Soviet-era practice to silence dissidents.
A Moscow court has extended the pretrial detention of prominent Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was arrested for allegedly spreading false information about the Russian Army.
The chief rabbi of Moscow, Pinchas Goldschmidt, has left Russia after he refused a request from state officials to publicly support Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, his daughter-in-law says.
Russia's Interior Ministry has added Vladimir Milov, an associate of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, and well-known writer Dmitry Glukhovsky to the federal wanted list.
Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov, editor in chief of the website Agentura.ru, which focuses on the activities of Russia's secret services, says he has been added to the country's wanted list.
The popular Russian television station Dozhd, which was forced to suspend operations in March amid pressure linked to its coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, says it will resume operations from Latvia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been forced to cancel a trip to Serbia after some of its Balkan neighbors refused to open their airspace to the minister's plane over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Tens of thousands of Russians fled to Central Asia shorty after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. Some emigres are calling Central Asia their new "forever homes" while others mull a return home as they carefully watch events in Russia.
Russian media reports that a 62-year-old businessman shot to death in central Moscow is the owner of a consulting firm and was wanted in Armenia for several years on a charge of planning a murder.
Firefighters have evacuated 120 people from a Moscow business center that is engulfed in flames, officials of the Emergency Ministry of the Russian capital said on June 3.
Police in Moscow have searched the homes of several journalists and activists who have openly protested Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Legendary ballet dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov has decried Vladimir Putin's "world of fear" in an open letter to the Russian president after Russia banned the website of a charity he co-founded to benefit Ukraine.
Two Russian lawmakers in the Far Eastern region of Primorye Krai have been thrown out of the Communist Party's faction in the regional parliament after they called on President Vladimir Putin to withdraw all troops from Ukraine, in what was a rare display of political protest in Russia.
A court in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, has extended the pretrial detention of an artist who was arrested for using price tags in a city store to distribute information about Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
A Russian journalist, who is also a member of the opposition Yabloko party’s press service in St. Petersburg, has been attacked and severely beaten by unknown individuals.
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