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Russia’s Federal centers of power should give hand of their functions to regional and local authorities, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said Sunday.

The European Court of Human Rights is to rule on Russia’s handling of its inquiry into the 1940 Katyn massacre of more than 20,000 Polish war prisoners.

Members of Estonia’s government accused neighboring Russia of interfering in local politics after a candidate for mayor of the capital, Tallinn, was placed on Interpol’s wanted list on the eve of municipal elections.

Scott Lively, the American missionary behind Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill, has returned to Russia.

A bill that proposes stripping gays with children of their parental rights, introduced by Russian lawmaker Alexei Zhuravlyov, has been withdrawn from the parliament, a spokesperson for the lawmaker said Saturday.

Jailed Pussy Riot punk Nadezhda Tolokonnikova said in a letter released Saturday that she feared for her life in her penal colony in the Russian region of Mordovia after resuming a hunger strike.

British Greenpeace activist Alexandra Harris was denied bail by a Murmansk court on Friday despite expressing fears for her health, as Russian judges continued to reject appeals for leniency by the 30 activists charged with piracy.

The Kremlin is ready to consider a Russian citizenship request from about 50,000 Syrian Christians when it receives it, a presidential spokesman said Friday.

Russia plans to spend 2 trillion rubles ($63 billion) by 2020 on a strategic program to develop the Arctic, a senior government official said Friday.

Masked men have broken into Greenpeace’s Russian headquarters in an apparent attempt to intimidate the environmental group into halting its demonstrations against the detention of 30 people over protests against Arctic drilling.