A draft law is set to create a digital blacklist of Russian websites which promote drugs or suicide or contain contain porn or "extremist" materials. The draft law would allow websites to be blacklisted without judicial oversight --- it merely...
Tens of people gathered near Moscow's Tagansky Court on Wednesday to protest against the prosecution of members of feminist punk group Pussy Riot. Three activists locked themselves in a cage near the court building and police struggled hard to...
Russian investigators are planning to question 600 people accused of participating in clashes with police during an anti-Putin rally on 6 May. More than 1,200 people have already been interviewed, one of whom--- Stepan Zimin --- faces criminal...
Moscow journalist Sergei Aslanyan was stabbed repeatedly earlier this week. Anslanyan, who specialises in motoring and hosts a programme on state Mayak radio station, was attacked on 29 May after a stranger called him and asked to leave...
Holding rallies and demonstrations is a right, specified in article 31 of the Russian constitution and one which is regularly abused by Russian authorities. Since 31 July 2009 the opposition has held protests in support of peaceful assembly on the...
Vladimir Putin’s inauguration on 7 May was marked with mass protest actions, arrests and clashes with police, which have continued for the last two weeks and seem unlikely to stop. Since the inaguration ceremony, protesters have been holding an...
A Moscow court has confirmed that three women accused of being members of Pussy Riot can be held in prison until trial. Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Semutsevich had appealed against an earlier decision to keep them in...
Following an inauguration ceremony on Monday, Vladimir Putin is once again Russia's president. After an absence of four years, Putin won a third term as president in controversial elections in March. But as former President Dmitry Medvedev retook...
One of Russia's best known television news presenters Alexey Pivovarov revealed the extent of state media censorship during President Dmitry Medvedv's final interview before he hands power to Vladimir Putin. During the wide-ranging interview with...
DDT, one of Russia's biggest rock bands, have had several concerts in Siberian cites cancelled according to frontman Yuri Shevchuk. He has said that local authorities forbade concerts in Omsk, Yugra, Kemerovo and Tumen. Shevchuk is a noted critic...