Katyusha, a chain of toy stores in southern Russia, may be charged under the law against homosexual propaganda for selling a game that allegedly requires participants to carry out inappropriate conduct, the local prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.
More than half of Russians regret the breakup of the Soviet Union and believe that it could have been avoided, a respected independent pollster said Tuesday.
More than 64,000 foreign nationals were ordered out of Russia in 2013, a migration official said Wednesday.
Russian lawmakers are considering a measure to restore the “against all” option on ballots in elections.
Russia has expelled a US journalist living in Moscow for the first time since the cold war, in a move that is likely to strain relations with Washington on the eve of the Sochi Winter Olympics.
A Russian court has declared brochures produced by the Jehovah’s Witnesses to be extremist, the Prosecutor General’s Office said Monday.
The investigators can now move for detaining opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has allegedly violated the terms of his restriction notice in the Ives Rocher case, the Investigative Committee told RIA Novosti on Monday.
A new criminal case has been opened against Russian opposition activist Sergei Mokhnatkin, who was arrested last month for allegedly striking a police officer during an anti-government rally in Moscow, his lawyer said Monday.
Some 27 Nobel laureates from the fields of science and the arts are demanding that Russian President Vladimir Putin repeal repressive homophobic legislation which has placed his country at the centre of mounting international fury over gay rights.
A lawmaker in Russia’s northern republic of Yakutia has been expelled from the ruling party’s faction after being found under the influence of drugs at a local movie theater, officials said Monday.
