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A Russian photographer who used to work for jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's group has been charged with inciting hatred and online calls for terrorism over his critical comments of President Vladimir Putin, the government, and law enforcement.
Russian actor Leonid Kuravlyov, who entertained audiences across the former Soviet Union for decades, has died at the age of 85.
When asked about their readiness to participate in a possible Russian military campaign against Ukraine, some Moscow residents said on January 24 that it would be their duty to take part while others questioned the logic of an attack against "brother Ukrainians." (RFE/RL's Russian Service)
Anatoly Naiman, one of Russia's most prominent poets, whose works were officially allowed to be published only after Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, has died in Moscow at the age of 85.
A court in Moscow has sentenced to lengthy prison terms four defendants convicted in an anti-drug operation that found almost 400 kilograms of cocaine on the premises of the Russian Embassy in Argentina.
A Russian court in Siberia has handed lengthy prison terms to two Jehovah's Witnesses, in the latest persecution of members of the banned Christian group.
A Russian artist has been arrested for creating a large snow sculpture that depicts feces near a burial site in St. Petersburg.
Their parents and grandparents were deported from their homes in the Soviet Union and resettled in remote parts of Russia during World War II, because Soviet authorities considered them potential traitors. Now pensioners, they yearn to return to the places their families were expelled from.
The father of Ivan Zhdanov, a close associate of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, has been detained for allegedly violating restrictions imposed on him after he was handed a suspended prison sentence last month in a corruption case that critics say is politically motivated.
Prominent writer Viktor Shenderovich, an outspoken Kremlin critic, says he has left Russia because of a pressure campaign against him by officials, including his controversial designation as a "foreign agent."
The son of a Russian billionaire close to President Vladimir Putin has landed the head coaching job at one of the country’s top ice hockey teams despite little, if any, experience.
Five people died and 21 were injured in a passenger bus accident south of Moscow, authorities said.
In his traditional televised New Year’s greeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that Russians had “encountered colossal challenges” in 2021 but had overcome them through “solidarity.”
The head of the North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, long accused of grave human rights abuses, has been named “distinguished human rights defenders” by the regional human rights ombudsman.
Russia recorded its highest monthly death toll from COVID-19 in November, the state statistics agency Rosstat reported on December 30.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Veronika Nikulshina, two members of the Pussy Riot protest group, have been added to Russia's controversial "foreign agents" list, which is used by the government to label what it says are foreign-funded organizations that are engaged in political activity.
Dozens of protesters chanted "Shame!" outside the Moscow City Court building on December 29 after a verdict ordered the closure of the Memorial Human Rights Center. According to prosecutors, the rights watchdog group has violated Russia's draconian "foreign-agent" law.
The deputy director of Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has been dismissed in the latest firing of senior officials amid a growing prison-abuse scandal.
The former inmate of a Russian jail who publicized shocking videos of torture said numerous officials from various agencies were aware of the abuse of prisoners but chose to cover it up rather than expose it.
Russian police have taken three former regional coordinators of Aleksei Navalny's campaign team in for questioning amid continued pressure against the imprisoned opposition leader's associates.
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