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A Russian historian,who is also the head of the Memorial human rights group in the northwestern region of Karelia will soon be transferred from a detention center in the city of Petrozavodsk to a penal colony to serve a lengthy prison term on charges he and his supporters have staunchly denied.
Russia and Ukraine appeared to make progress in their first face-to-face talks in more than two weeks, with Moscow saying it was scaling down its military operations around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv, but Western allies expressed skepticism and warned that the threat is not over.
A court in Moscow has canceled a suspended three-year prison sentence for prominent Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov that he was handed in an embezzlement case that many have called politically motivated.
Leading independent Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta, which is edited by Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, says it is suspending operations after receiving official warnings.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian central bank, the government, and Gazprom to present proposals by March 31 gas payments in rubles from “unfriendly countries,” including all European Union states.
A new investigative report alleges opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was followed by agents linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) for almost a year before he was assassinated on a bridge leading to the Kremlin in 2015.
Russia’s communications regulator has warned Russian news agencies against publishing an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
The Czech Republic has frozen assets worth millions of dollars belonging to Russian tycoons under sanctions, Prime Minister Petr Fiala told national TV.
A Russian artist doused herself in fake blood in a solo protest in St. Petersburg on March 27, before the police came and took her away. Yevgenia Isayeva stood on the steps of the municipal assembly, repeating the phrase "my heart bleeds."
Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor has blocked access within the country to the Lithuanian news website, Delfi, as the government continues to broaden its clampdown on independent media.
Authorities in the Czech capital, Prague, have approved a proposal to rename one of the streets that runs in front of the Russian Embassy to Ukrainian Heroes Street.
A Russian TV news editor who protested Russia's invasion of Ukraine by interrupting a live news broadcast on Russian state television earlier in March has been charged with "discrediting" the armed forces.
Russia says 1,351 of its soldiers have died in the fighting in Ukraine, the first casualty update that Moscow has given in more than three weeks and a figure well below Western intelligence and Ukrainian estimates.
The severed head of a pig has been left at the door of the apartment of the editor in chief of Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy, which has been shut down by the Russian authorities.
RFE/RL freelance correspondent Polina Efimova has been detained in the Russian city of Taganrog as she was talking to refugees from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which is under siege by Russian armed forces.
The editor in chief of the independent Moscow-based newspaper Novaya gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, is putting his Nobel Prize medal up for auction to raise funds to help Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia's unprovoked invasion.
The team of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has published details about a superyacht that they suspect belongs to President Vladimir Putin.
A court in Russia has found opposition politician Aleksei Navalny guilty of embezzlement and contempt charges and sentenced him to nine years in prison.
Chulpan Khamatova, a prominent Russian actress known for her roles in international films, says she has gone into exile in Latvia following her country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Yuz Aleshkovsky, one of the Soviet Union's best-known dissident writers, has died in the United States at the age of 92.
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