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An RFE/RL reporting crew has been arrested in Kyiv as the protests in the Ukrainian capital have escalated into street battles with riot police. A Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty crew […]
Anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny is back in Moscow after being freed on bail pending an appeal of his theft conviction. The opposition leader sa ...
Russia says it will ask the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to keep wrestling in the games. This after the IOC announced it would drop the sport ...
Russia has one of the highest smoking rates in the world, with an estimated 40 percent of the country’s adults lighting up. As a result, Russian ...
An appeal by three punk-rock musicians convicted of hooliganism for protesting the rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been postponed by a Moscow court. The members of the Pussy […]
A Moscow court will hear an appeal in the case of three female punk rockers sentenced to two years in a penal colony for singing out against Russian President Vladimir […]
Russia has given the United States Agency for International Development until October 1, 2012 to close its operations and leave the country. Human rights groups in Russia say the Kremlin order will […]
A Moscow judge says she will issue a verdict in the controversial trial of three Russian feminist punk rockers on August 17th. The three could spend up to seven years […]
A state prosecutor in Russia called on the judge at the Khamovnichesky (Moscow) District Court to give three young protest musicians in the band Pussy Riot a three-year sentence for […]
