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In the wake of recent NSA spy scandals, Russia’s Federal Guard Service has decided to revert to using more typewriters and paper documents,Izvestia reports.

Edward Snowden, the self-professed leaker of classified National Security Agency documents that revealed secret U.S. government phone and Internet surveillance programs, has asked for a meeting with lawyers and human rights activists, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported Friday.

A Moscow court convicted late investment fund lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on Thursday of tax evasion after Russia’s first posthumous trial, a ruling that will further undermine President Vladimir Putin’s reputation in the West.

An armada of Chinese and Russian warships sailed in ceremonial formation in the Sea of Japan, off the port of Vladivostok, on Wednesday in what was the high point of joint naval exercises intended to show the growing unity between two countries with a historically uneasy relationship.

A Syrian opposition leader is undermining chances for proposed peace talks by saying that foes of President Bashar al-Assad will only attend if they make military headway first, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.

Russia’s prosecutor general on Tuesday accused 215 NGOs of bypassing a recent law on foreign funding by refusing to register themselves as foreign agents.

Striking changes have started taking place in Russia’s armed forces since Sergei Shoigu took over as defense minister. For example, last week the military posted what until then had been top-secret data online — specifically, the nation’s army and navy development and building plans through 2020.

Prosecutors have accused three nonprofit organizations of extremist activity in the course of a large-scale inspection, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika said on Wednesday.

Russians believe that the level of corruption in the country has gone up over the last two years despite government efforts to fight it and that graft has become one of society’s worst afflictions, Transparency International’s Russia office said.

The dress code prohibited the wearing of any religious clothing or clothes with religious symbols. It also banned casual clothes considered too revealing and shoes with heels higher than seven centimeters.