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A prominent member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has criticized a move by the Russian State Duma to reintroduce slander as a criminal offense.
Russian police say they have opened criminal investigations following a conflict between village locals and migrants from the North Caucasus in the Kirov region, in the central part of European Russia.
A Moscow court has prolonged until at least July 24 the pretrial detention of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Maria Alyokhina, three members of the female punk rock group Pussy Riot, which is accused of hooliganism.
At least four people have been detained in Moscow outside the building of Russia's Investigative Committee, after activists started what they call an "Occupy the Investigative Committee" campaign.
There has been no public response from the Kremlin so far to the admission by Russia's top investigator that he made a death threat to an independent journalist.
The chairman of Russia's main federal investigating authority has reportedly apologized to a journalist and his boss after being accused of a gangland-style death threat.
The chief editor of the independent "Novaya gazeta" newspaper has accused the head of Russia's federal Investigative Committee of threatening the life of one of his top editors.
Russian police have questioned opposition figures Aleksei Navalny and Sergei Udaltsov for a second consecutive day, one day after tens of thousands of people rallied in Moscow against President Vladimir Putin's continued rule.
Russian police have searched the homes of leading opposition figures in an apparent crackdown on the eve of a planned mass protest against President Vladimir Putin's third term as president.
Security forces in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Daghestan have reportedly killed six militants in what officials describe as a special operation.
Mikhail Prokhorov, who came in third in Russia's March presidential election, is reportedly considering becoming a candidate for the post of Moscow's mayor.
Moscow police say an investigation has been launched into the stabbing of a journalist who works for radio stations known for their coverage of Russia's political opposition.
Two key figures in the ongoing street protests against Putinism and Russian political stagnation -- Sergei Udaltsov and Aleksei Navalny -- have been released after serving two-week jail terms because of a demonstration.
Russian lawmakers are expected to vote on a bill that would dramatically boost fines on protesters for participating in unsanctioned demonstrations.
Despite increasingly vociferous objections from Russia, this weekend's NATO summit will announce the next steps in European missile defense, including an "interim capability" that is being hailed as the first step toward fully protecting NATO populations from limited missile attacks.
The leader of Russia's opposition Solidarnost movement, Ilya Yashin, has been sentenced to 10 days in jail after being found guilty of failure to obey a law-enforcement officer.
The international human rights group Amnesty International has named Russian opposition leaders Aleksei Navalny and Sergei Udaltsov "prisoners of conscience."
A Moscow court has declared an ongoing street encampment in the Russian capital illegal, setting the grounds for police to move in and demolish it.
A ruling United Russia party official said the office's windows and doors sustained heavy damage, apparently including from paint guns, on May 9.
Russia's lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, has confirmed ex-president Dmitry Medvedev as the country's new prime minister, a day after President Vladimir Putin was sworn-in for a third term.
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