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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.
A man on a march across Russia who says he wants "to topple Putin" has reportedly been seized by masked, armed men. Aleksandr Gabyshev left Yakutsk in Russia's Far East earlier this year to walk 8,000 km to Moscow.
Leonid was born in a small town in Russia's Far East, where his mother beat him for being gay. When he finished school, he left home and met Aleksandr, with whom he now campaigns for LGBT rights.
A former Russian National Guardsman could face a 6-year prison sentence for resisting arrest during a crackdown on a Moscow protest.
A Russian election observer was assaulted at a polling station after raising concerns about potential fraud during the September 8 vote for governor of St. Petersburg.
A new school in a village in central Kyrgyzstan made up of shipping containers has caused a social media stir and has been linked to the resignation of the country's education minister.
Various claims of voting irregularities have emerged as Russia held local and regional elections that were seen as a serious test for the Kremlin.
Two Russian soccer players have been granted early release after serving less than half of their prison sentences for hooliganism over beatings they inflicted in Moscow last year.
Residents of Saratov in central Russia have joined forces on social media to try and identify the source of a stench they say hits the city at nighttime and weekends. They're blaming local industrial plants.
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