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Russia has officially completed its obligations under the 2002 Open Skies Treaty and finalized its withdrawal from the agreement.
Two members of the Pussy Riot protest group in Russia, Maria Alyokhina and Lyusya Shtein, have been sentenced to jail for online posts they made several years ago.
The Moscow City Court has ruled that hearings on a prosecutor's request to shut down one of Russia's oldest rights watchdogs, the Memorial Human Rights Center, will begin on December 23.
A Russian woman who worked with supporters of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny in the central city of Saratov says she has received political asylum in the Netherlands.
Russian authorities say they have detained the main owner of a Siberian coal mine where an explosion killed dozens of people in November, along with three top managers.
A court in Moscow has fined investigative website The Insider for failing to mark its materials as being produced by a "foreign agent," a mandatory requirement for those added to the state's controversial registry.
Russia's Supreme Court has resumed a hearing into a request by federal prosecutors to shut down one of the post-Soviet world's oldest and most prestigious human rights organizations, Memorial International.
Prominent Russian film director Sergei Solovyov, whose movies in the late 1980s became symbols of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, has died at the age of 77.
A Swiss court has ruled to allow the extradition of a Kremlin-linked Russian businessman to the United States.
An 18-year-old graduate of a religious school near Moscow has detonated an explosive device inside the facility, wounding himself and 11 other teenagers.
Latvia's parliament has voted to allow a probe against Janis Adamsons, a former interior minister and a lawmaker from the opposition Social Democratic Saskana (Harmony) party, who is accused of spying for Russia.
A gunman has opened fire in a government services center in Moscow and killed two people, after being told to wear a face mask, local authorities and media said. Four people were also reported wounded.
Maksim Martsinkevich, a notorious Russian ultranationalist who died in custody last year, is to be tried posthumously on murder charges, a lawyer representing his family said on December 3.
A court in Moscow has switched the one-year suspended sentence handed to opposition politician Lyubov Sobol, a close associate of jailed anti-corruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny, to actual prison time.
Eleven people have been arrested in Belarus for their online comments about the deaths of two Russian paratroopers during joint Russian-Belarusian military maneuvers last month.
According to witnesses to last week's Siberian coal-mine disaster, lax safety standards meant it was an accident waiting to happen. Fifty-one people died in Russia's worst mine tragedy since 2010.
Prosecutors have asked a Moscow court to sentence an ultraconservative, coronavirus-denying Russian priest who was stripped of his religious rank to four years in prison on charges of vigilantism, violating the right to religious freedom, and encouraging suicide.
A large munitions factory in the Russian city of Dzerzhinsk was rocked by several explosions on November 27.
Russia's Supreme Court has begun hearing federal prosecutors' arguments aimed at shutting down one of the post-Soviet world's most prestigious human rights organizations, International Memorial.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Aleksandr Kalashnikov as director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Kremlin said in a statement, after disturbing videos of torture and rape inside a jail were leaked.
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