- 09:56 17/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 17 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against activist leader Sergei Udaltsov, who will face charges of "organizing mass disorder" and could face up to 10 years in prison.
- 13:50 10/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti)
A lawyer for the anti-Putin punk band Pussy Riot has been summoned for questioning over his role in a May 6 opposition rally that turned violent.
- 09:31 31/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow’s opposition has applied to hold the third “March of Millions” on September 15 that will be held under the slogan for “Snap Elections! and Against Repression!” opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov said on Friday.
- 17:10 09/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 9 (RIA Novosti)
A Moscow court slapped opposition activist and firebrand nationalist Eduard Limonov with a 12,000-ruble ($380) fine on Thursday for his part in organizing an unsanctioned protest in downtown Moscow on July 31.
- 15:55 31/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti)
Russian opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny was charged on Tuesday with embezzlement and ordered not to leave Moscow, the Investigative Committee said.
- 23:12 26/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 26 (RIA Novosti)
Two more suspects have been detained as part of a criminal investigation into the May 6 unrest on Moscow's Bolotnaya Ploshchad during a demonstration, Russia's Investigative Committee said on Thursday on its website.
- 21:31 14/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 14 (RIA Novosti)
A bicycle ride was cancelled in Murmansk, northwest Russia, due to the new law tightening rules for public events, the organizers said at the forum of a local cyclist club.
- 07:49 13/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 13 (RIA Novsoti)
Two Russian opposition activists are seeking political asylum in the Netherlands and Germany, the Kommersant daily reported on Friday.
- 04:29 09/07/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, July 9 (RIA Novosti)
Two journalists detained on Sunday in the northwestern Russian city of St. Petersburg have been released, one of them told RIA Novosti on Monday.
- 23:53 08/07/2012 ST. PETERSBURG July 8 (RIA Novosti)
An authorized opposition rally in St. Petersburg gathered together about 130 participants, police said on Sunday.
- 16:26 27/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's protest movement has become more determined and lost trust in veteran opposition figures, a new survey has found.
- 13:36 26/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 26 (RIA Novosti)
Opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny said on Tuesday his e-mail and Twitter account have been hacked into.
- 15:32 16/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 16 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow police detained at least 14 people during an opposition protest outside the headquarters of Russia's top investigative unit.
- 17:26 15/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 15 (RIA Novosti)
Russian TV-host-turned-opposition-activist Ksenia Sobchak will have her tax declarations, bank accounts and business projects scrutinized for any possible wrongdoing, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Friday.
- 19:18 12/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 12 (RIA Novosti)
Political activists gathered in downtown Moscow on the Russia Day public holiday on Tuesday, braving rain showers for an anti-Kremlin rally as its organizers were called in for questioning during the event.
- 17:20 12/06/2012
Tens of thousands gathered in downtown Moscow on Russia Day on Tuesday for the March of Millions opposition rally.
- 15:10 12/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 12 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin called for compromise between the political forces in the country in a speech on Tuesday, as his opponents staged a mass anti-Kremlin rally in Moscow.
- 11:49 12/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 12 (RIA Novosti)
Russian opposition leaders who were summoned by Russia’s Investigative Committee as part of a probe into the May 6 riots have appeared for questioning, a police source said on Tuesday.
- 07:28 12/06/2012 WASHINGTON, June 12 (RIA Novosti)
The United States is concerned about searches in the homes of Russian opposition leaders on the eve of their March of Millions, due Tuesday and a new law on rallies, the U.S. State Department said.
- 18:28 11/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 11 (RIA Novosti)
In an apparent attempt to disrupt an opposition March of Millions slated for June 12, Moscow police carried out on Monday searches in the apartments of the protest leaders.
- 10:27 11/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 11 (RIA Novosti)
Police are searching the apartments of the protest leaders who organized a rally in Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square in early May that turned into violent clashes between protesters and police, a spokesman for Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office said on Monday.
- 19:26 08/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 8 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow authorities have approved an opposition protest route for June 12 from Pushkin Square in the center of the city to Sakharov Avenue where the demonstration will be held, a chief security official, Andrei Mayorov, said on Friday.
- 19:08 08/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 8 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed off on Friday on a controversial new law that greatly increases the maximum fines for protest-related offenses.
- 19:02 08/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 8 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow authorities have approved an opposition protest route for June 12 from Pushkin Square in the center of the city to Sakharov Avenue where the demonstration will be held, a chief security official of the capital said on Friday.
- 20:45 07/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 7 (RIA Novosti)
A working group of the Kremlin’s human rights council called the new law tightening rules on public rallies unconstitutional and enabling abuse on Thursday.
- 19:26 07/06/2012 KALININGRAD, June 7 (RIA Novosti)
Opposition supporters in Russia’s western exclave of Kaliningrad said they will hold protests in neighboring Poland because they cannot afford the new fines for political rallies in Russia.
- 19:11 07/06/2012 BRUSSELS, June 7 (RIA Novosti)
The European Union expressed its concern on Thursday over Russia’s controversial new legislation that increases penalties for participation in unauthorized demonstrations.
- 15:53 07/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 7 (RIA Novosti)
More than two-thirds of Russians think the Kremlin should begin negotiations with the opposition, but only half of them believe it will happen, according to a new poll by independent Levada Center.
- 13:20 07/06/2012
The State Duma has made a number of amendments to documents regulating the organization of mass events.
- 19:14 06/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 6 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
Breaking new ground in crowd control, Russian riot police ordered new trucks equipped with non-lethal guns that are to fire giant shuttlecocks at unruly protesters, media reported.
- 18:31 06/06/2012 Alexei Korolyov, RIA Novosti
With lawmakers in the State Duma still hard at it till after midnight, it was a sight long unseen in Russia, where the lower house of parliament had once famously been described by a former speaker as a "place unfit for discussion."
- 14:26 06/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 6 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow authorities will only sanction the mass opposition rally on June 12 at either of the two routes proposed by the City Hall, ignoring all alternatives named by organizers, a city official said on Wednesday.
- 12:40 06/06/2012 BEIJING, June 6 (RIA Novosti)
President Vladimir Putin will not sign into law a bill toughening the penalties for infringements of the regulations on public protests if the bill contravenes generally accepted European norms, his press secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Wednesday.
- 12:02 06/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 6 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's upper house of parliament passed on Wednesday a controversial new law which sharply increases fines for unapproved rallies.
- 09:51 06/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 6 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin will consider all views before signing a bill tightening rules for public gatherings, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
- 00:30 06/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 6 (RIA Novosti)
The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, passed late on Tuesday in the second and final third readings a bill that tightens rules for public gatherings and hikes fines for unsanctioned rallies
- 12:39 05/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s lower house of parliament approved in its final hearing on Tuesday a controversial law that greatly increases the maximum fine for taking part in or organizing unsanctioned protests.
- 14:23 04/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 4 (RIA Novosti)
A bill tightening rules for public gatherings and hiking fines for unsanctioned rallies will be passed by the lower chamber of the Russian parliament on Tuesday, State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin said.
- 14:46 01/06/2012 MOSCOW, June 1 (RIA Novosti)
The head of the Russian State Nanotechnology Corporation (Rusnano), Anatoly Chubais, said that “the era of stability” in Russia is over and the country is on the eve of democratic reform.
- 14:04 31/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 31 (RIA Novosti)
Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov was fined 1,000 rubles ($30) on Thursday for his part in rolling protests which followed Vladimir Putin's presidential inauguration earlier this month.
- 19:25 30/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow city authorities have refused to allow the Russian opposition to hold a proposed protest march in downtown Moscow on June 12, Russia Day, suggesting a different route for the action, the Left Front movement’s leader, Sergei Udaltsov, said on Wednesday.
- 12:22 30/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti)
Two Russian opposition lawmakers are looking to block the passage of a controversial new law which could see a massive increase in fines for unapproved rallies by submitting an alternative bill.
- 16:48 29/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 29 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
One of Russia’s best-known journalists has voiced stinging on-air criticism of the country’s ruling United Russia party, led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, in a rare show of dissent on state-controlled national television.
- 13:41 29/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 29 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Investigative Committee has initiated two criminal cases against UK-based Russian tycoon, Boris Berezovsky, over his public calls for riots, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.
- 12:33 29/05/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, May 29 (RIA Novosti)
St. Petersburg opposition groups applied on Tuesday for official permission to hold an anti-Putin rally in the city next month.
- 11:44 28/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russian opposition activists applied on Monday morning to hold a 50,000-strong "March of Millions" in Moscow on June 12, to protest the results of parliamentary and presidential elections, the Left Front movement’s leader said in his Twitter post.
- 21:50 27/05/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, May 27 (RIA Novosti)
Opposition leader Olga Kurnosova and an opposition activist who were detained in the center of St. Petersburg before their protest stroll were released from the police, they were fined for violating traffic rules, Olga Kurnosova said.
- 21:29 27/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow police detained about 35 people for various violations on Stary Arbat street, Moscow police spokesperson said on Sunday.
- 14:30 27/05/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, May 27 (RIA Novosti)
Five opposition activists were detained in Arts Square in the center of St. Petersburg during their protest stroll, local police reported on Sunday.
- 08:11 27/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russian opposition party Yabloko will on Sunday hold a rally in Moscow to protest a controversial new draft law that could see fines for unsanctioned protests rise by two hundred times, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
- 20:29 25/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
“Those who have…suggestions for what to do…in case of a crackdown on the camp…raise your hands!” the anti-Putin protesters occupying a downtown Moscow boulevard intone in unison, their voices amplifying the words of the speaker.
- 21:00 24/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti)
Almost third of Russians approve of the closure of the Occupy-style camp at Moscow’s downtown Chistoprudny Boulevard where people were protesting against Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency, a poll held by the Public Opinion Foundation has revealed.
- 20:18 24/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
The political rift between the opposition-minded middle class in Moscow and the population in the Russian provinces is a myth, with most of the populace united in the demand for change, a group of experts established by former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Thursday.
- 17:05 24/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 24 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
A downtown Moscow roundtable ordered by President Vladimir Putin to discuss a controversial new law that could see a massive increase in fines for participants of illegal protests saw a walk-out by a number of opposition figures on Thursday.
- 14:37 24/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti)
An opposition parliamentarian announced on Thursday plans to derail a lower house debate on a bill which massively increases the size of fines for unapproved rallies.
- 13:46 24/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Interior Ministry is calling on State Duma deputies not to abuse the format of “meetings with the electorate” to disrupt public order, a ministry official said on Thursday.
- 13:34 24/05/2012 Svetlana Babaeva, RIA Novosti Staff Writer
A new political cycle has begun in Russia with the detention of more than 700 protesters in Moscow and renewed attempts to restrict street activity in the capital. It was unusual for the authorities to put on such an undisguised display of force at the outset of a new Kremlin administration as they have done this month.
- 12:47 24/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 24 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Russian opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny told supporters after being freed from jail on Thursday that the threat of imprisonment or huge fines would do nothing to stop protests against the rule of President Vladimir Putin.
- 10:12 24/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 24 (RIA Novosti)
Alexei Navalny, a key figure in Russia's protest movement against President Vladimir Putin, left a Moscow detention facility early on Thursday after serving 15 days for disobeying police orders.
- 16:40 23/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti, Marc Bennetts)
The Kremlin human rights council plans to ask President Vladimir Putin to veto a controversial new law that could see fines for unsanctioned protests rise by as much as two hundred times, the advisory council said on Wednesday.
- 17:29 22/05/2012 May 22 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Russia’s lower house of parliament approved in its first hearing on Tuesday a controversial draft bill that would increase fines for taking part in or organizing unsanctioned protests by as much as two hundred times.
- 19:00 21/05/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, May 21 (RIA Novosti)
The public garden on St. Isaac’s Square in St. Petersburg, where the opposition holds its “festivities,” has been closed for repairs, but protesters are remaining at the park.
- 14:02 21/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti)
Russian opposition figurehead, Sergei Udaltsov, who was hospitalized on Sunday, has announced that he is ending his hunger strike.
- 17:56 20/05/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, May 20 (RIA Novosti)
Opposition activists and renowned cultural figures who participated in a protest walk strolled across St. Petersburg and returned to St. Isaac's Square where the action started.
- 04:47 20/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti)
Police detained over 10 more protesters on early Sunday on the Stary Arbat street as anti-Putin activists decided to encamp the street after being ousted from Kudrinskaya Square.
- 05:30 19/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti)
Police dispersed an opposition camp in central Moscow in the early hours of Saturday, detaining about 20 people
- 19:48 18/05/2012 RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko
The Kremlin is unlikely to mount a full-scale violent crackdown on the resilient opposition like in Belarus despite mounting tensions in Moscow between protesters and police, Russian political analysts said.
- 17:29 18/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti)
The opposition wants its March of Millions protest to proceed from Tverskaya Zastava Square to Borovitskaya Square near the Kremlin on June 12, the leader of the Left Front opposition movement said in his Twitter on Friday.
- 12:18 18/05/2012
Laws on meetings and marches and responsibility for offenses against regulations on mass events.
- 11:58 18/05/2012 MOSCOW/ST PETERSBURG, May 18 (RIA Novosti)
The organizers of demonstrations should not be held culpable for the number of people who attend them, Russia's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday in a decision which could have implications for public order.
- 20:33 17/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti)
A Moscow court sentenced Russian opposition activist Ilya Yashin to ten days in jail for disobeying police orders during Wednesday’s opposition rally in central Moscow.
- 18:36 17/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
Opposition lawmakers in Moscow failed on Thursday to legalize a resilient opposition camp in the city’s center that faces pressure from city authorities and law enforcement.
- 18:17 17/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti)
The government should adapt to changes in society and not just “switch off Twitter" in the event of civil unrest, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
- 14:30 17/05/2012
‘Peoples’ Festivities’ moved from Chistye Prydy where the camp was disbanded to Kudrinskaya Square. Yesterday opposition activists blocked a police van carrying detained protesters.
- 12:59 17/05/2012 RIA Novosti, David Burghardt
In just under two hours after being evicted by riot police in the early morning hours of Wednesday from an Occupy-type tent protest in Moscow, anti-Putin protesters moved their camp to another central park to continue their stand against President Vladimir Putin’s return to the Kremlin.
- 12:45 17/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti)
Opposition MPs may walk out of parliament when the lower house debates a bill on Friday to stiffen penalties for breaching restrictions on public demonstrations, a Communist Party lawmaker said.
- 11:50 17/05/2012 Alexey Kovalev
So, Occupy Abai, Moscow’s latest social/political novelty, is no more. In the wee hours of May 16, six hours before the deadline set by Basmanny court, the last remaining members of the camp were removed by the police, forced to leave their paltry possessions behind.
- 11:21 17/05/2012 RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko
James Cameron invested more than $350 million in a tale of unscrupulous capitalists developing a primeval ecosystem to the chagrin of locals, and grossed $2.7 billion out of it, thrilling half the globe with 2009's Avatar.
- 07:56 17/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti)
The Moscow opposition camp that moved to another location in the center of the Russian capital may receive the status of a festival, the Kommersant daily reported on Thursday citing a municipal assembly deputy.
- 01:50 17/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti)
Over 30 protesters have been detained in downtown Moscow’s Kudrinskaya Square, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
- 23:24 16/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti)
Police in Moscow on Wednesday night detained a Russian opposition figurehead, Ilya Yashin, and at least 16 other anti-Putin activists as they continued round-the-clock street protests on Kudrinskaya Square after being ejected from their previous Occupy-style tent camp in another part of the Russian capital.
- 17:07 16/05/2012
The authorities accused anti-Putin activists of causing some $650,000 worth of damage to greenery during their week-long stay at the Chystye Prudy camp in downtown Moscow. The Chistye Prudy camp was attended by up to 3,000 protesters at its peak and attracted activists of a variety of political persuasions, from anarchists to nationalists.
- 15:52 16/05/2012
Early on May 16, Moscow police dispersed an opposition camp at the Abai Kunanbayev monument following a Basmanny Court ruling. Twenty three people were detained.
- 15:47 16/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian parliamentary committee for constitutional law and state-building has proposed banning those charged with violating public rally regulations from organizing protests for a period of one year, the committee’s deputy head Dmitry Vyatkin said on Wednesday.
- 15:23 16/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 16 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Anti-Putin activists vowed on Wednesday to continue their round-the-clock street protests after police broke up a downtown Moscow Occupy-type camp in a dawn raid.
- 14:54 16/05/2012
Police dispersed opposition campers from Chistye Prudy.
- 07:19 16/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti)
Riot police dismantled early on Wednesday the downtown Moscow camp set up by anti-Putin activists following complaints by local residents.
- 23:58 15/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 15 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Police ordered anti-Putin activists on Tuesday to abandon the downtown Moscow camp they have been occupying for almost a week.
- 23:41 15/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti)
The three opposition factions in the Russian State Duma questioned the need for a bill that would steeply increase fines for illegal protest activity, but the draft legislation has the support of the ruling United Russia party, which has a slim majority in the Duma.
- 21:23 15/05/2012 MOSCOW, MAY 15 (RIA Novosti)
Russian opposition figurehead Sergei Udaltsov will be moved back to detention from a Moscow hospital, a police spokesman said on Monday.
- 19:47 15/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
Allegations that the banned opposition camp in downtown Moscow bred crime and disorder are untrue and politically motivated, opposition lawmaker Dmitry Gudkov said on Tuesday, citing local police.
- 15:49 15/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti)
A Moscow district court ordered on Tuesday the closure of an opposition camp in downtown Moscow, accusing activists of littering and destroying the greenery in the area.
- 15:17 15/05/2012 ST.PETERSBURG, May 15 (RIA Novosti)
Investigators have begun questioning witnesses over the May 6 protests in Moscow that turned into violent clashes with police authorities, Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika said on Tuesday.
- 15:01 15/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti)
Supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appealed on Tuesday his 15-day arrest over last week’s street protests in Moscow in the European Court of Human Rights.
- 23:59 14/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 14 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
When police trucks pulled up at Moscow’s anti-Putin Occupy camp on Monday afternoon, activists feared the worst.
- 16:52 14/05/2012 Weekly column by Marc Bennetts
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently at Moscow’s week-old opposition camp, the gathering of anti-Putin activists that sprang up overnight in the center of the capital, under the gaze of a 19th century Kazakh poet philosopher named Abai Kunanbayev (born Qunanbaiuli).
- 18:30 13/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 13 (RIA Novosti, Marc Bennetts)
A host of Russian literary figures led thousands of people through the squares and boulevards of downtown Moscow on Sunday afternoon to an opposition camp that has become the epicenter of the challenge to the rule of President Vladimir Putin.
- 16:05 13/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russian activists who have set up an opposition camp in downtown Moscow will continue their protest until a new March of Millions scheduled for June 12, MP from the A Just Russia party Dmitry Gudkov said on Sunday.
- 14:25 13/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 13 (RIA Novosti)
A ‘protest’ walk with writers and musicians has gathered about 2,000 people in downtown Moscow, the Moscow police press office reported on Sunday.
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