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Russian Watchdog Takes First Step Toward Punishing RFE/RL Under 'Foreign Agents' Law

Starving, Weak, And Penniless: Russians Try Life On Minimum Wage

Moscow Election Official With Coronavirus Reportedly Worked On Voting Day

A member of a district election commission in Moscow says the chairwoman of the district worked when Russians voted for constitutional amendments even though she had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Thousands Rally In Moscow To Mark Nemtsov Killing Anniversary

Russian Activist Blogger Gets Suspended Sentence After Anti-Putin Videos

A popular Russian blogger has received a suspended three-year sentence for "inciting extremism on the Internet" in his calls for protests against President Vladimir Putin and his government. Yegor Zhukov was hailed as a hero by his supporters on the steps of a Moscow courthouse.

Sobol At Moscow Protest: 'Repression Will Not Work'

Thousands of Russians marched in central Moscow as opposition activists defied authorities' warnings and pushed ahead with a protest focused on upcoming city council elections. The August 31 action was the latest in a series of confrontations between liberal activists and Moscow city authorities -- and the Kremlin. A leading opposition figure, Lyubov Sobol, speaking to journalists during the protest, said that repression will not work and also called on Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to resign.

Over 100 People Detained In Moscow Following Opposition Protest

No One Safe As Moscow Police Lash Out

'I Saw The Executioner': Preserving The Names Of Stalin's Polish Victims

The Moscow-based rights group, Memorial, is to publish a book naming more than 6,000 executed Polish prisoners buried in 1940 in the village of Mednoye, near the Russian city of Tver. The killings were part of a mass execution of nearly 22,000 Polish officers ordered by Soviet leader Josef Stalin.