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The Moscow Times: Russia on Thursday confirmed 21,073 Covid-19 infections and 926 deaths. Cases in Moscow rose from 1,798 on Wednesday to 2,661 on Thursday, a nearly 50% increase. RFE/RL: Nadezhda…

The Moscow Times: Russia on Tuesday confirmed 21,922 Covid-19 infections and 935 deaths. Meduza: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has issued an interim measure telling Russia to suspend…

International Memorial: On 28 December 2021 Russia's Supreme Court ruled to close International Memorial. The lawsuit, filed by the Prosecutor General's Office, referred to a missing 'foreign agent' designation on some of the materials produced by International Memorial. This is only a formal…

The Moscow Times: Russia on Monday confirmed 23,210 Covid-19 infections and 937 deaths. The Guardian: A Russian court has increased a jail sentence for the Gulag historian Yury Dmitriyev to…

RFE/RL: A lawyer at the North Caucasus branch of the Russian human rights organization Committee Against Torture says 21 of his relatives have been “abducted” in Chechnya. Over the past few days,…

RFE/RL: Russia’s communications regulator has blocked the website of OVD-Info, a prominent human rights monitor that tracks political persecution and anti-Kremlin protests, the group said on December 25. OVD-Info, which…

The Moscow Times: Russia on Friday confirmed 24,703 Covid-19 infections and 998 deaths. The Guardian: A Moscow court has said it is fining Alphabet’s Google 7.2bn roubles (£73m) for what…

The Moscow Times: Russia on Thursday confirmed 25,667 Covid-19 infections and 1,002 deaths. RFE/RL: The Moscow City Court started hearings on a prosecutor's request to shut down one of Russia's oldest…

The Moscow Times: Russia on Wednesday confirmed 25,264 Covid-19 infections and 1,020 deaths. RFE/RL: The editor in chief of Russia’s Novaya gazeta, who shared this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has…

The Moscow Times: Russia on Tuesday confirmed 25,907 Covid-19 infections and 1,027 deaths. The Moscow Times: Russia has passed legislation granting police the right to break into homes and cars without a…