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Anti-Putin protesters march through Moscow

Up to 120,000 Russian anti-government protesters demand political reform as Putin supporters stage counter-rally

Tom Parfitt in Moscow

04, Feb, 2012 @3:48 PM

Alexei Navalny: Russia's new rebel who has Vladimir Putin in his sights

The lawyer-turned-crusading democrat has a touch of the PM's populism that makes even some of his own supporters uneasy

Tom Parfitt in Moscow

15, Jan, 2012 @9:00 PM

Russia's era of managed democracy is over, claims presidential candidate

Billionaire tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov who is running in 4 March election says it is time for evolution not revolution

Tom Parfitt in Moscow

11, Jan, 2012 @5:33 PM

Kremlin ally accused of falsifying election registration documents

Activists have filmed scores of people allegedly compiling false lists of citizens endorsing 'back-up' candidate

Tom Parfitt in Moscow

10, Jan, 2012 @6:19 PM

Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny is target of fake photo smear

Navalny says a photo of him meeting Kremlin arch-villain Boris Berezovsky originally showed another oligarch

Tom Parfitt in Moscow

09, Jan, 2012 @6:58 PM

Yulia Tymoshenko's husband granted asylum in the Czech Republic

Husband of Ukraine opposition leader jailed in October has fled the country after wife transferred to prison colony in Kharkiv

Tom Parfitt in Moscow

06, Jan, 2012 @8:32 AM

Bradford rockers Smokie play Kremlin gig

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev invites veteran rock band to perform at special new year shindig

Tom Parfitt in Moscow

03, Jan, 2012 @6:25 PM

Russian nuclear submarine blaze injures nine after crew remain inside

President orders inquiry into fire on board vessel docked in Arctic but officials play down any fears of radiation leak

Tom Parfitt in Moscow and John Vidal

30, Dec, 2011 @5:53 PM

Moscow protest for jailed activist passes off peacefully

Hundreds of protesters gather in Pushkin Square to demonstrate against detention of leftist opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov

Tom Parfitt in Moscow

29, Dec, 2011 @6:50 PM

Russians to protest in support of jailed opposition leader

Thousands to attend public meeting after Russian government bans protest in support of Sergei Udaltsov

Tom Parfitt in Moscow

29, Dec, 2011 @1:10 PM

Protest couple targets of persecution campaign by Vladimir Putin

Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov has gone on hunger strike in a Moscow prison as his wife Anastasiya carries on organising the pro-democracy campaign

Tom Parfitt

17, Dec, 2011 @4:42 PM

Russian journalist gunned down in violent republic of Dagestan

Masked killer fired 14 rounds at Khadzhimurad Kamalov as he left his newspaper's office in Makhachkala

Tom Parfitt and Miriam Elder in Moscow

16, Dec, 2011 @4:56 PM

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