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Fined for yellow and blue shoes: How Russian laws smother dissent
BBC via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 week agoAnna Bazhutova was jailed for five and a half years for spreading "fake information" on the Russian...
Jailed human rights campaigner denounces mass repression across Russia before court hearing feed cut...
The Independent via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 weeks agoThe jailed co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial, Oleg Orlov, hit...
Russia denies jailed campaigner Orlov's plea for freedom
AFP News via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 weeks agoA Moscow court on Thursday upheld a prison sentence against Nobel Prize-winning rights advocate Oleg...
Russia declares newspaper The Moscow Times 'undesirable' amid crackdown on criticism
Associated Press Finance via Yahoo Singapore Finance· 3 weeks agoThe Russian prosecutor general's office on Wednesday declared The Moscow Times, an online newspaper...
Russian court jails theatre figures over IS wives play
BBC via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 weeks agoYevgenia Berkovich, right, and Svetlana Petrichuk in court [AFP] A Russian playwright and a theatre...
Russia jails playwright and director for 'justifying terrorism'
AFP News via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 weeks agoA Russian military court on Monday sentenced a playwright and a theatre director to six years in...
27 Nobel laureates demand the release of political prisoners in Belarus
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 months agoIn an open letter, 27 Nobel laureates have demanded the release of all political prisoners in...
Dozens of Nobel Prize winners demand release of Belarus political prisoners
The Independent via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 months agoHuman Rights Watch says that hundreds of rights activists, journalists, lawyers, opposition...
UPDATE 1-Russia responsible for Navalny's death, UN rights expert says
Reuters via Yahoo Singapore Finance· 5 months agoThe U.N. human rights expert on Russia said on Monday that the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny was Moscow's responsibility as he was either killed in prison or died from detention ...
Why the Kremlin Tried to Obstruct Alexei Navalny's Funeral
Time via Yahoo News Singapore· 5 months agoOn Feb. 16, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison. It took eight days for...