Anti-Putin Protests

With colorful ski masks, explicit lyrics and mosh pit–ready dance moves, the feminist collective known as Pussy Riot grew out of the protest movement that peaked in Moscow in early 2012, the first street-level challenge to the reign of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The group’s viral videos mixed punk rock…

Video: Kremlin critic accuses Russian authorities of freezing his family's bank accounts and says even his son's pocket money has disappeared from one account  Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny attends political march in Moscow. The march is both a tribute to assassinated leader Boris Nemtsov and anti-Putin protest. Share this…

Washington (AFP) - A US envoy on Monday hailed the thousands of Russians who took to the streets to criticize President Vladimir Putin, saying they showed bravery.Russia's opposition called the rally in central Moscow on Saturday, the fifth anniversary of the assassination of leading liberal Boris Nemtsov, to warn Putin…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionBoris Nemtsov was murdered in February 2015Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Russia's capital to mark five years since the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.Mr Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and prominent Kremlin critic, was shot dead…

Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a Chechen activist, posted a video after an apparent attack on him in Poland.He said a person with a hammer had been sent to kill him, in an Instagram Live video which also seemed to show the assailant.Abdurakhmanov is seeking asylum in Poland having left Chechnya, which is…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in February 2015 as he walked through central Moscow with his girlfriend Politicians in Prague have denied they are trolling Moscow by renaming a square in memory of Boris Nemtsov - a murdered critic of President Putin. The square…

MOSCOW—Few people are familiar with Novaya Zemlya, a very obscure archipelago above the Arctic Circle that is controlled by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the infamous Soviet spy agency, the KGB. Even fewer people hope to travel to those thinly populated and thoroughly militarized islands, where the…

Posted on Twitter by @Kira_YarmyshMOSCOW—Few people are familiar with Novaya Zemlya, a very obscure archipelago above the Arctic Circle that is controlled by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the infamous Soviet spy agency, the KGB.Even fewer people hope to travel to those thinly populated and thoroughly militarized…

The newest evidence-free anonymously sourced claims of Russian interference ahead of the 2020 election is a return to and new twist on Trump and Putin's supposed three-dimensional chess playing, this latest version which goes something like this: ...the Kremlin wants Trump for four more years, so the best way to…

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