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Russia's Gazprom is threatening to turn off the natural-gas taps to Moldova unless it pays past debt and agrees to a much higher price. The Kremlin holds a strong hand: pro-Russian separatists in breakaway Transdniester and hefty Russian stakes in key Moldovan energy concerns.
A court in Russia's southwestern city of Astrakhan has sentenced four Jehovah’s witnesses to lengthy prison terms amid an ongoing crackdown of the religious group's followers across the country.
Several apartments have been destroyed by an explosion in a five-floor residential building in the Russian city of Naberezhnye Chelny.
Noted Russian journalist Sergei Reznik, who specializes in anti-corruption investigations, has been added to the Interior Ministry’s wanted list.
Russia has issued an arrest warrant for a former prison inmate who has admitted to releasing graphic video evidence of hundreds of cases of inmate torture by other inmates at the direction of prison officials.
Russia has reimposed unpopular lockdown measures after a summer in which officials jeered at similar restrictions in the West. Now, even Kremlin allies are charging that the government’s approach was wrong.
Six officials at the Moscow regional prosecutor's office have reportedly been fired for liking social media posts by jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), which is banned in the country as extremist.
Russian opposition politician Lyubov Sobol, a close associate of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, has been added to Russia's wanted list after she fled the country days after being found guilty of breaking coronavirus measures.
Russia has reported some COVID-19 infections with a new coronavirus variant believed to be even more contagious than the Delta one amid a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths that has pushed Moscow's authorities to reimpose lockdown measures.
The European Parliament’s decision to award Aleksei Navalny its prestigious Sakharov Prize raises his global standing and thus offers something resembling protection for the jailed dissident, analysts and colleagues say.
The French-based founder and leader of the Gulagu.net human rights group, Vladimir Osechkin, has identified the man who handed him part of a video archive of alleged torture and sexual assaults in Russian prisons earlier this month.
A Russian court has sentenced a member of an outlawed nationalist opposition group from the city of Saratov to six years in prison after finding him guilty of plotting a terrorist act and the illegal possession of explosives.
A court in Russia has declared a notorious anti-feminist, anti-LGBT, racist group known as Male State an extremist organization.
Russia says it will suspend the operations of its mission at NATO headquarters in Brussels in response to the Western security alliance's move to expel eight members of Russia's mission earlier this month.
A 12-year-old Russian schoolboy has been detained after he opened fire at school in the town of Sars near the Urals city of Perm less than a month after a deadly attack at a nearby university shocked the country.
The source of a massive leak of information, including videos, of alleged torture and sexual assaults in Russia's penitentiary system has fled to France, where he plans to seek political asylum.
Relative calm is being reported at a prison in the south of Russia on October 16, a day after a riot there by hundreds of prisoners.
A group of attackers burst into the office of Russia’s Memorial human rights center in Moscow on October 14, interrupting the screening of a film about a Welsh journalist who reported the existence of the Stalin-era mass famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
The Russian Justice Ministry has designated a human rights organization in the Far Eastern region of Yakutia a “foreign agent," as the authorities continue to tighten their grip on civil society across the country.
Imprisoned Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny said his supporters who have left Russia in the face of growing repression can continue their efforts to oppose the Russian government from abroad.
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