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Hundreds of migrants were spending another night outdoors in freezing temperatures behind razor-wire barriers on the border between Belarus and EU member Poland as Brussels announced fresh sanctions against Minsk, accusing the Belarusian regime of mounting a "hybrid attack" against the bloc.
The creators of a YouTube channel that broadcasts an online series about a fictional chairman of the executive committee of the Russian Far Eastern city of Ussuriisk say a probe has been launched against them.
One of Russia's top human rights lawyers has been added to a Russian registry of "foreign agents" along with four associates.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called the constant presence of the U.S. Navy in the Black Sea a provocation after another ship entered the strategic waters.
Russian prosecutors in the souther region of Rostov have opened a criminal investigation into the torture of inmates at a hospital prison, local rights activists said.
Researchers say life expectancy in Russia fell by more than two years in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Police in the Russian capital have detained nationalist activists ahead of an unsanctioned public event known as the Russian March that has been banned since 2019.
Two former inmates of the penal colony in Russia's Vladimir region have described what they said were the penitentiary administration's methods used to put pressure on jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.
Ivan Safronov, a prominent former Russian journalist accused of high treason in a case widely considered to be politically motivated, has been placed in solitary confinement for allegedly violating the detention center's internal regulations.
The Russian authorities have detained three men suspected of illegally obtaining the personal data of Federal Security Service (FSB) agents whom jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has accused of being involved in his poisoning last year.
An annual commemoration for thousands of people executed during Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's Great Terror is being held in Russia online for a second year in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A Moscow court has sentenced a blogger and his girlfriend to 10 months in prison each over a photo imitating oral sex in front of the St. Basil’s Cathedral on Red Square.
A Russian national wanted on cybercrime charges has made his first appearance in a U.S. federal court after being extradited hours earlier by South Korea to the United States.
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.
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