Two protest rallies were held in the centre of Moscow claimed Vladimir Putin stole the Russian presidential election. The fact that the major protest was sanctioned by Moscow authorities didn’t prevent the police from arresting hundreds of people...
Vladimir Putin has regained his position as president of Russia after Sunday's election. According to the Central Election Committee, Putin got 63.82 per cent votes confirming him as winner without the need for a second round of voting. The second...
Pussy Riot is a feminist punk collective from Moscow. They hide their faces under coloured balaclavas, use nicknames to remain anonymous and perform unsanctioned concerts in peculiar places. Since their emergence last autumn Pussy Riot...
Pussy Riot is a feminist punk collective from Moscow. They hide their faces under coloured balaclavas, use nicknames to remain anonymous and perform unsanctioned concerts in peculiar places. Since their emergence last autumn Pussy Riot...
Authorities in the Siberian city of Barnaul have refused to sanction a dolls' protest rally, claiming toys are not equal to people and so cannot participate. Rights activists had planned to place 100 Kinder surprise toys, 100 Lego figures, 20...
Ekho Moskvy is Russia’s most popular talk radio station, with 900,000 listeners daily. Since its creation in 1990 it has delivered information as an independent media which, unlike Russian TV, isn't subject to censorship. This remained the case...
Human rights advocate and Presidential council for Human Rights expert Vladimir Osechkin has reported freedom of expression violations in penal colony №7 in Tver. Inmates and their relatives appealed to Oscechkin saying they had been seriously...
One month ahead of presidential polls, tens of thousands of people marched through the centre of Moscow today to protest Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's expected return to the Kremlin for a third presidential term. The stop-Putin movement staged...
The Russian Central Election Committee has refused to register Grigory Yavlinsky --- founder of the Yabloko opposition party --- as a presidential candidate. Yabloko did not reach the seven per cent minimum in the State Duma elections, but...
Popular Russian blogger Oleg Kozyrev has been threatened with a defamation lawsuit by Moscow Region Election Committee for filing a complaint on alleged election law violations. "Clearly this is an example of pressure against bloggers who succeeded...
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has launched a website dedicated to his run in the forthcoming presidential elections on 4 March. Minutes after the site went live on 12 January, comments in the site's “suggestions” section called on him not...
The first weeks of January have been marked with a number of public moves, which opposition activists say are aimed at smearing them. Russian general prosecutor Yuri Chaika has alleged that participants of two historically large rallies for new,...