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A lawmaker in Russia's Far Eastern city of Magadan, who was implicated in a high-profile poaching case, has been found dead with gunshot wounds.
Russian lawmakers have approved the first reading of a bill on the introduction of QR codes for citizens to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, though not without a fight. Literally.
Amnesty has turned to the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples regarding the situation faced by a Yakut shaman who is being held in a psychiatric clinic against his will because of his attempts to march to Moscow to "drive Russian President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin."
A Russian man who disguised himself as a medical worker so he could treat his COVID-19-stricken grandmother and reveal the bleak picture of how coronavirus patients were being treated in a hospital in the Siberian city of Tomsk has fled the country fearing for his safety.
The bodies of five coal miners who were killed when an explosion ripped through a mine in the Siberian region of Kemerovo on November 25 have been recovered and brought to the surface, local officials reported.
Rescuers have found a survivor after an explosion at a mine in Siberia left 52 dead in what appears to have been Russia's deadliest mine accident in more than a decade.
At least 52 people -- including 46 miners and six rescuers -- have been reported dead and dozens more are missing after an explosion at a coal mine in the Kemerovo region of Siberia early on November 25.
A court in Russia has acquitted a Jehovah's Witness charged with extremism despite an ongoing crackdown on the followers of the religious group.
Several dozen Chinese workers in Russia’s Far East staged a protest on November 7 against their employer, Kremlin-controlled oil giant Rosneft.
The wife of opposition figure Aleksei Tupitsin has suffered what he says doctors described as "a chemical poisoning," which he believes was an attack likely aimed at him.
A court in Siberia has sentenced an Orthodox priest to 10 days in jail -- his sixth jail term -- for publicly expressing support for the former governor of the Khabarovsk region, Sergei Furgal, who was arrested on murder charges that he and his supporters have rejected as politically motivated.
A court in Siberia has sentenced eight people to prison terms ranging from five years to 14 years in prison for negligence in a 2018 fire in the city of Kemerovo that killed 60 people, including 37 children.
A Russian human rights activist says a Polish court has ruled against his extradition to Russia, where he faces prosecution.
A court in Russia's Far East has sentenced a woman to three months in prison after she played the role of an Interior Ministry spokeswoman in an online satirical series about a fictional official.
In parts of Yakutia, in Russia's Far East, many residents raise reindeer to make a living, relying, in part, on modest government subsidies to make ends meet. Their livelihood is part of a traditional way of life, but it's threatened with obsolescence as young people leave in search of better jobs.
An opposition activist in Siberia says he has left Russia to avoid possible detention amid an ongoing crackdown on people and organizations linked to jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny.
Russian authorities have finally revealed to which clinic Yakut shaman Aleksandr Gabyshev was transferred after a court ordered him to be confined to forced psychiatric treatment in July, his lawyer says.
A court in Siberia has found a group of eight people guilty of negligence in a 2018 fire in the city of Kemerovo that killed 60 people, including 37 children.
Inmates at a penitentiary in Siberia have started a mass hunger strike to protest the deaths of two prisoners and what they say are widespread rights abuses, including torture, at the facility.
Ahead of parliamentary elections and local balloting across Russia on September 17-19, voters in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk were surprised by a campaign stand set up on a downtown square urging them to cast ballots for the feline.
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