Russian police said Monday they have detained seven leaders of an ethnic Central Asian criminal group engaged in illegal banking, that they believed was financing an international Islamist terrorist organization.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused European countries of putting pressure on Ukraine to persuade it to sign an association agreement with the EU.
A top aide to Lithuania’s president said Friday that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych admitted Kiev backed off this week from signing landmark trade deals with the EU under pressure from Russia.
The European Court of Human Rights has asked Russia to report on a suspect in the Bolotnaya Square rioting case who has been on hunger strike for 65 days.
Human rights activists urged Russia on Thursday to repeal the controversial “foreign agent” law that has been disrupting the work of non-governmental organizations in the country since it came into force exactly a year ago.
A Moscow court convicted four white supremacists of planning to detonate a bomb at an antifascist concert in what could have been the loudest blast of a covert street war.
Prosecutors in the Stavropol region have demanded that local schools dispose of books by revered early-20th-century poet Sergei Yesenin and author of the novel “Lolita,” Vladimir Nabokov, alleging that their works frighten children and breed crime.
The top migration official in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya has been fired after it was disclosed that his daughter was fighting alongside rebel forces in Syria’s civil war.
Russian opposition politician Oleg Shein was hospitalized after being stabbed at a Moscow hostel early Thursday, but his life is not in danger, police have said.
More than a thousand people were held for criminal record and migration permit checks after Russian police raided one of Moscow’s biggest market halls on Wednesday, police said.
