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The deputy speaker of the Krasnoyarsk regional parliament, Aleksei Kleshko, has been found dead.
Authorities at a prison in Siberia say they have established control after what they said was violent unrest among inmates over the weekend.
A Russian court has sentenced a member of an outlawed Russian nationalist opposition movement to 3 1/2 years in prison for allegedly plotting mass disturbances, his wife says.
Three members of the local branch of a Jehovah's Witnesses church have been detained in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka peninsula on extremism charges.
A fourth resident of Russia's Altai region in Siberia has been charged with inciting hatred via posts on the Internet.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a measure that will increase the country's value-added tax (VAT) from 18 to 20 percent as of January 1, 2019.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has reportedly lodged an extremism charge against an activist who promotes indigenous cultures and languages following a post on the Internet.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets across Russia to protest against the government's plan to raise the retirement age.
About 1,000 people have rallied in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk against a government plan to raise pension ages.
The head of the Russian opposition party Yabloko's branch in Moscow, Sergei Mitrokhin, has been detained while protesting the government's plan to increase the pension age.
A Russian artist who has faced pressure over works mocking nationalist lawmaker Natalya Poklonskaya says he left Russia earlier this year and plans to seek political asylum in France.
Two Russian opposition activists have been jailed in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok two days after they were detained.
Dozens of activists protested in the Siberian city of Yakutsk against a plan by Russian federal authorities to abolish mandatory Yakut language lessons at schools.
A prominent opposition activist and public figure in Russia's Altai Krai region, Aidar Kudirmekov, has fled the country in fear for his safety.
Police are conducting searches in the building of the regional parliament, or Il Tumen, of Russia's Far Eastern region of Sakha-Yakutia.
Two prominent activists for the rights of Siberia's indigenous peoples, Vladislav and Yana Tannagashev, have had to leave Russia fearing for their safety, the Memorial human rights center says.
A Moscow court has ordered Maria Alyokhina, a leading member of the punk protest band Pussy Riot, to perform 100 hours of community service for a protest against Russia's ban on the messaging app Telegram.
The leader of a consumer-protection group in the Russian city of Novosibirsk says an arson attack has destroyed his summer house.
Russians staged a number of protests in several cities and towns in the Moscow region over pollution from landfills.
Aman Tuleyev, the former governor of Russia's Kemerovo region in Siberia, has asked prosecutors to check and make public his incomes, expenditures, and property to prove that allegations about his "uncountable wealth" are false.
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