The Movement For Human Rights is among dozens of organizations teetering on the brink of a shutdown for protesting new legislation on NGOs and the first one that authorities have evicted by force.
Russian police have detained dozens of people who clashed during a protest in Saint Petersburg against new anti-gay legislation.
President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill making insulting somebody’s religion a crime punishable by up to three years in prison. The document has been posted on the government website of legal information.
Russian prosecutors today asked a judge to lift the threat of jail for businessman Alexander Lebedev over punches thrown at a guest on a television chat show.
More than 40 people were briefly detained on Arbat in central Moscow during what police described as an unauthorized public event.
Despite numerous hurdles facing opposition leader Alexei Navalny, including the six criminal cases against him and campaign conditions skewed in favor of the incumbent mayor, Navalny pledged to fiercely campaign his own program at Moscow’s mayoral elections on Sept. 8.
Supporters of jailed ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky gathered in Moscow on Wednesday to mark his fiftieth birthday and one news website reported that 46 people were arrested.
The High Court appeared to back calls for the government to concede to a public inquiry into the death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko today.
A bill to outlaw criticism of the Red Army’s actions during World War II is “potentially dangerous” for media freedom in Russia, an official with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said Wednesday.
Kremlin children’s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov said that no more Russian children would be allowed to join potential adoptive families in the U.S. despite calls for flexibility with adoptions that were “in process” before the ban was introduced.
