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Vyacheslav Gorodetsky says he can not accept the authorities’ growing interference in local journalism.

The Human Rights Court in Strasbourg concludes that the Russian Military failed to investigate properly the death of Konstantin Luzyanin and grants mother Valentina €26.000 compensation.

More than ten people are charged as security agents take action against the outlawed religious community.

The arrest of Karelian researcher of Stalin’s repressions Yuri Dmitriev has been extended for three months

Moscow highlights the Arctic as territory of dialogue, but a recent court order might indicate that not everyone is welcomed to that dialogue.

Not one single parliament member voted against when the State State Duma on Thursday adopted the third and final reading of the law giving authorities the right to designate any writer, photographer or video-blogger as ‘foreign agent’.

Director of the group, Rodion Sulyandziga, says Russia’s goal with the shutdown is to keep indigenous peoples outside any international, Arctic and UN venues.

Sara is actively working to revitalize the language that was on the brink of extinction.

"We look with great concern at the difficult working conditions for civil society in Russia, especially the conditions for NGOs, the media and indigenous peoples," says foreign minister Ine Eriksen Søreide.

After months of protests, locals say they won’t back down against government plans for a massive landfill in Russia's north.