Russia on Monday freed one of the jailed members of punk band Pussy Riot whose almost two-year incarceration for a performance against President Vladimir Putin prompted global outrage. The release of Maria Alyokhina from her prison in the city of Nizhny…
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The pro-EU protest movement in Ukraine on Sunday appeared to lose its momentum after the government’s bailout deal with Russia, as the latest rally in Kiev drew far fewer demonstrators. Some 40,000 showed up at Independence Square for the fifth in a…
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Russian lawmakers on Wednesday approved a Kremlin-backed amnesty bill that is set to free the two jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot while also ending the prosecution of 30 Greenpeace crew members. Russia’s Duma lower house of parliament voted…
Russia has denied a foreign Greenpeace activist permission to leave the country pending his trial over an Arctic protest, the group said on Friday. Greenpeace has received a letter from the Investigative Committee, which probes major cases in Russia…
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The United States has charged 49 current and former Russian diplomats and their wives over a $1.5 million fraud, accusing them of stealing medical benefits for a decade, prosecutors said Thursday. The alleged scam took place between 2004 and August…
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin on Monday slammed street protests in Ukraine against the government’s decision not to sign a key agreement with the European Union and seek closer ties with the Kremlin. “The events in Ukraine seem more like a pogrom…
A Russian court on Thursday ordered to release on bail the last of 30 Greenpeace crew members who had been held in detention since their September protest against Arctic oil drilling. “Excellent news! Colin Russell from Australia is granted bail,” the…