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Russia’s foreign ministry has expressed regret after a Dutch diplomat was beaten up in his Moscow apartment.

An appeals court in the Russian city of Kirov has given Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny a suspended prison sentence for embezzlement.

Russian police have captured an Azerbaijani man suspected of murdering a young Russian, whose death led to riots targeting migrants in Moscow.

A senior diplomat at the Dutch embassy in Moscow has been beaten up in his flat, days after a spat involving a Russian official in The Hague.

Russia on Wednesday detained a top militant described as the leader of rebels in its restive region of Ingushetia and blamed for a string of attacks in the Caucasus, the security service said.

Moscow City Court on Monday confirmed the legality of a criminal case against opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg on charges of defrauding a local branch of cosmetics maker Yves Rocher of 55 million rubles ($1.8 million) in 2008.

After a bloody 2008 war over South Ossetia, Russia is now building a fence inside territory disputed with Georgia.

The head of a Russian forensics agency said on Tuesday that samples from the body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had revealed no traces of radioactive polonium, a Russian news agency reported.

Police stepped up security in Moscow on Tuesday to prevent a repeat of rioting over the killing of an ethnic Russian as crowds of Muslims celebrated the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.

A Russian court has rejected bail requests from the American captain of a Greenpeace ship and two other foreign activists involved in a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic.