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,...
Opposition activist Taisiya Osipova was sentenced to ten years on charges of drug trafficking on Friday. Rights activists allege that her arrest is a political move to silence both her and her husband. Both are members of The Other Russia...
Opposition leader Sergey Udaltsov has spent much of December under arrest and on hunger strike --- but the unity of his supporters grows stronger as his health continues to deteriorate. “The authorities are trying to silence me, but they cannot...
According to opposition leaders, at least 120,000 people gathered in the centre of Moscow on 24 December to demand new and fair parliamentary elections, and that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin retire. Police report that 29,000 were present...
A leading online tabloid has published opposition leader Boris Nemtsov’s private phone conversations, during which he denigrated other Russian opposition activists. Nemtsov claims his phone was illegally bugged and that the Kremlin is behind the...
The first meeting of Russia's newly elected State Duma will be held on 21 December. Tens of thousands of Russians protested the parliamentary elections, based on claims that they were unfair. This week protesters will take to the streets again with...