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Nadezhda Glebovskaya once made jewelry for fashion shows, before developing a unique, politically charged form of knitted art. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the artist fled for Armenia, where she continues to work today.
A court in Russia's northwestern Komi region sentenced human rights activist Andrei Ivashev on charges he posted online calls for terrorism.
A prosecutor in Russia's far western exclave of Kaliningrad has asked a court to sentence a 64-year-old anti-war activist to eight years in prison on a charge of spreading "fake" information about Russia's armed forces.
Andrei Borovikov, an associate of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, was released from prison in the northwestern city of Arkhangelsk on May 23 after serving a 27-month prison term he was handed in 2021 for sharing a video by the German rock band Rammstein online.
The controversial handovers of two of Russia's most revered pieces of art to the Orthodox Church leave experts wondering what may be next.
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has been placed in a punitive solitary confinement for the 16th time since August 2022.
A court in Russia's northwestern region of Karelia has sentenced a 34-year-old man to six years in prison for high treason.
Russian artist Ivan Volkov told RFE/RL that he has been sentenced to five months of "correctional work" for creating a snow sculpture in January 2022 in the form of a giant feces near the Field of Mars in the city of St. Petersburg, where those who died in the 1917 Russian Revolution are buried.
Two women from Russia's northwestern region of Karelia, Anna Trusova, 57, and Irina Nippolainen, 59, have fled the country after authorities launched a probe against them in March, accusing them of public calls for actions compromising Russia's national security.
A 29-year-old history teacher in Russia's Komi Republic in the Urals has been sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison for his online posts supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russia's unprovoked invasion.
Prosecutors have asked a court in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, to convict and hand a suspended three-year prison term to a 60-year-old woman charged with the hatred-based desecration of the grave of the parents of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The leader of Russia's popular Naiv rock group, Aleksandr Ivanov, has left Russia for an unspecified country after he supported a 13-year-old girl, Masha Moskalyova, whose anti-war picture helped lead to her father's prosecution, media reports said on May 9.
Police in the Russian city of Saratov on April 24 detained former Wagner member Azamat Uldarov, who publicly said weeks earlier that the mercenary group's fighters killed civilians, including children, in Ukraine.
Russia is rushing to build new replacement housing in Mariupol, the Ukrainian port city that ravaged during Russia's siege. Former residents long to return, but say the rebuilding is of dubious quality. Ukrainian officials have their own plan for the city, should they succeed in someday retaking it.
Aleksei Moskalyov's lawyer said authorities in the city of Yefremov have withdrawn their request to deprive him of his parental rights, saying Moskalyov's daughter, who was briefly held in a Russian orphanage, is currently safe and lives with her mother, who had long been separated from Moskalyov.
A Russian activist has ben released from prison after serving more than five years in prison in the high-profile Set (Network) case that rights defenders and opposition activities have called "fabricated."
Russia has declared the Norwegian nongovernmental environmental group Miljostiftelsen Bellona an "undesirable" organization amid an ongoing crackdown on international and domestic NGOs, civil society, and independent journalists.
Lawyer Yury Novolodsky, who is defending an artist on trial for using price tags in a St. Petersburg store to distribute information about Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, may lose his license.
A Russian court has sentenced architect Oleg Belousov to 5 1/2 years in prison for discrediting Russia's armed forces with "fake" social-media posts about the war in Ukraine and calls for extremism.
More than a year after Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and in the midst of a historic crackdown on dissent, a handful of Russians continue to risk their lives and liberty in a quixotic bid to convince their country to change course.
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