Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion-turned-political-opposition-stalwart, told a news conference in Geneva that he would not return to Russia for fear of criminal prosecution for his political activities, his website reported Wednesday.
At an unannounced appearance at a radical feminist bookstore in New York, two members of the Russian punk rock group that sparked an international crisis for Vladimir Putin took off their iconic colorful balaclavas and revealed their faces.
Twelve activists accused of clashing with riot police during a violent rally against Vladimir Putin‘s rule appeared in a Moscow court on Thursday, in a case dubbed a political show trial by Kremlin critics.
Nearly half of Russian students (45 percent) and some 38 percent of businessmen would like to leave Russia, according to a survey by the Levada Center independent pollster published on Thursday.
[Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev and Justice Minister Aleksandr Konovalov met on April 27 with their employees who have been included in the so-called Magnitsky List. The list includes 18 judges and representatives of law-enforcement and other government agencies whom American authorities believe are complicit in the death in pre-trial detention at Matrosskaya Tishina Prison of […]
A coroner has written to the government to request a public inquiry in place of an inquest into the death of the poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko, it has emerged.
Russian and European Union officials meeting at a summit Tuesday discussed liberalizing visa rules for many Russians, an issue that brought objections from politicians concerned about human rights abuses.
In an expected move on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
Russia accused unnamed states on Wednesday of using a “biased” U.N. human rights report on Syria to condemn President Bashar al-Assad’s government and gloss over abuses by his foes, especially Islamist militants.
Radical opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov will fight to become Moscow’s next mayor, despite being under house arrest in connection with accusations of having plotted mass unrest
