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Media crackdown
The Kremlin moves against independent journalists — thousands could end up as "foreign agents"
Media freedom
Barents Observer opens another door through Russia's censorship wall
Police persecution of Andrey Borovikov is politically motivated, says human rights watchdog
Troubled democracy
Russia moves to further curb protests
Navalny's man in Arkhangelsk faces 6 years in jail for sharing of Rammstein music video
Norway follows EU on Russia sanctions over Navalny poisoning
Karelian Supreme Court toughens sentence against Yury Dmitriyev to 13 years
Navalny's man in Arkhangelsk is pulled in by police
Activist from Arkhangelsk showing solidarity with Belarus fined by police
Local elections
Fraud and intimidation as local opposition groups challenge Putin's elites in regional vote
Eyes on elections
"No hint of protest in this rally," says performance activist as she stages show in front of north Russian Election Commission
Press release
Barents Observer is ready to take Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor to Supreme Court
Violetta detained in Murmansk for single-person picket in support of Navalny
Political opposition
Kremlin critic Navalny in coma after ‘poisoning’
A Gulag historian returns to prison
Norway, Russia border closed for normal traffic until at least August 20
In Syktyvkar, man in Putin mask stains Constitution with paint
Norway's celebration of Svalbard Treaty was followed by ardent and coordinated response from Moscow media
Appeal case "Barents Observer vs Roskomnadzor" comes up in Moscow court
Historian Yuri Dmitriev remains locked up in detention facility haunted by COVID-19. Regional supreme court turns down plea for early release
Future of journalism is under threat, warns press freedom organization
Armed Forces relocate Navalny's man in Novaya Zemlya
A champion in Murmansk media quits because of censorship
Moscow disinforms about coronavirus, says press freedom organization
At militarized Arctic archipelago Novaya Zemlya serves a trapped conscript from Aleksey Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund
Mother from Murmansk lost son in Army, wins case in European Court
FSB raids homes of Yehovah's Witnesses in Murmansk, detains believers
The human rights organization that studies Stalin horrors is fined 21 times for violations of foreign agent law
Russia backs penalties for attending ‘Undesirable’ courses abroad
New report
Free media on the scaffold. Harder times for journalists in the North
Putin increases fines for ‘Foreign Agents’
Petrozavodsk court extends arrest of researcher of Stalin’s repressions Yuri Dmitriev
News journal published in indigenous language, was punished by media inspectors
Russian journalists and bloggers with income from abroad can now be labelled ‘foreign agents’
Tatiana’s right to hold a picket in solidarity with Pussy Riot up for ECHR judgments
Russia removes critical voices ahead of Arctic Council chairmanship, claims Indigenous peoples expert
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