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A Russian parliamentary committee has accused six foreign-registered and funded media outlets of violating the country's election law before and during last month's elections to regional and local councils.
After Serhiy Nykonenko was killed in eastern Ukraine, his daughter joined the fight against pro-Russia separatists. The family is now grieving again.
Love has scored a victory where justice failed after two Russian activists involved in separate, high-profile cases and whose arrests caused a public outcry, married in an infamous Moscow jail.
Young Tajik men are being taken from the streets by people in plain clothes and reportedly sent to serve in the army for two years. Sometimes, the men are taken without any prior notice.
The head of a prison in the Russian region of Karelia denied charges that staff had abused inmates -- until a video surfaced this month showing a brutal beating. Several prisoners say one of the attackers seen in the footage is the prison chief himself.
A series of one-person pickets have been held across the Russian capital in support of an opposition activist sentenced to 4 years in prison for repeatedly taking part in unauthorized rallies.
A Russian lawyer and human rights activist has been found guilty of attacking police and fined 30,000 rubles ($468) by a Krasnodar court in connection with his detention while he was trying to provide legal advice to protesters being taken into police custody at an anti-government rally a year ago.
A court in southwestern Russia has sentenced a 72-year-old pensioner to 12 years in a high-security penal colony for high treason.
Albert Razin, a scholar and activist in the Russian region of Udmurtia, set himself on fire in front of the local parliament building in September and died shortly afterwards. His death was a final act of protest in defense of the Udmurt language, which he believed was threatened by recent legislation from Moscow.
Moscow City Court has upheld the two-year prison sentence handed down to an activist last month for assaulting police during an unsanctioned rally on July 27.
LiveJournal was founded in Seattle but became the go-to platform for Russian activists. Then the Kremlin hit back, heralding a wider crackdown in Internet freedom. This story is part of a documentary series, InterNYET, by Current Time exploring the history of the Russian web.
Some 10,000 people a day cross a collapsed bridged across the front line in war-torn eastern Ukraine.
Lithuania has held emergency drills amid safety concerns about a new nuclear plant that will soon start operating in neighboring Belarus.
Two police officers in the town of Balashikha near Moscow have been dismissed and face unspecified charges for "torturing" and forcing two Uzbek men to jump from a second-floor apartment.
Tens of thousands of Russians braved cold, wet autumn weather to jam a central Moscow square as opposition groups sought to regain momentum following a summer of demonstrations that targeted both local elections and Russia's broader political system.
Kazakhstan's Interior Minister says about 100 people were detained during unsanctioned opposition rallies on September 21.
Three children look happy and healthy now with their grandparents in Georgia, but that's after living for a year with their mother in an Iraqi jail. Their father, an Islamic State militant, was killed in Iraq, and the Georgian government is still trying to bring her home.
Born in a former Soviet research institute, in the 1990s it was the most popular website in Russia and was sold for more than $230 million in 2004. But Rambler was eclipsed by a dynamic new search engine, and its creator counted his profits in the tens of thousands of dollars. This story is part of a documentary series, InterNYET, by Current Time, exploring the history of the Russian web.
Pavel Ustinov has been released from detention hours after a Moscow judge took the rare move of accepting a request by prosecutors to allow the actor his freedom while appealing a conviction for violence against police during a protest rally last month he insists he did not participate in.
The city of Moscow has deployed more than 150,000 cameras with facial-recognition technology to follow the movements of anyone on the streets. The system has been used to track down protesters, but a defense lawyer says it should provide evidence to prosecute police abuse.
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