Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
A court hearing has started to decide on the forced "treatment" in a closed psychiatric institution of a shaman who has been stopped by authorities several times in his attempts to march to Moscow by foot “to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin.”
A journalist from Siberia who had to leave her native city of Kiselyovsk in the Siberian region of Kemerovo earlier this year after she was attacked says she has fled Russia fearing for her safety.
A Russian military appeals court in Siberia has upheld the sentence of Private Ramil Shamsutdinov, who was sentenced to 24 1/2 years in prison in January for killing eight fellow servicemen in a rampage he says was the result of hazing he faced in the army.
A court in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk has sentenced a supporter of the imprisoned former governor of the Khabarovsk Krai region to one year in a prison settlement for using pepper spray against police at a rally in September 2020.
many Jehovah's Witnesses have been imprisoned in the country and in Russia-annexed Crimea.
The former mayor of the Siberian city of Tomsk, Ivan Klyain, has rejected charges of abuse of office and illegal business activities at the start of his trial.
A noted human rights activist in the northwestern Russian city of Cherepovets has been sentenced to two years of "limited freedom" under parole-like conditions on a charge of distributing false information about the coronavirus.
The head of the trauma and orthopedics department at the Russian hospital where opposition politician Aleksei Navalny was treated for poisoning last summer has died.
A shaman in the Siberian region of Yakutia who has had several attempts to march to Moscow by foot “to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin” stopped by authorities, has been officially found by a court to be "mentally unfit."
The chief of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's network in Russia says police have swept through the Far East city of Khabarovsk and detained several Navalny activists, local opposition politicians, and journalists.
Journalists in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, where demonstrations in support of the region's jailed former governor have been held since July last year, have started so-called "silent broadcasts" to avoid prosecution.
The Supreme Court of Russia's Yakutia region has ruled that the forced confinement to a psychiatric clinic of a shaman who tried several times to march to Moscow on foot "to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin" was legal.
Top officials at two penitentiaries in the Russian city of Irkutsk have been detained after probes were launched into the alleged torture and rape of two inmates.
Rights activists are questioning official reports that an inmate committed suicide after he was found dead in a prison in Russia's Siberian region of Irkutsk.
A journalist in Siberia whose critical articles often target local authorities says she has fled her city with her daughters amid fears for their safety.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) says investigations have been launched against an unspecified number of guards at a prison in Siberia following reports about the brutal torture of inmates.
A shaman in the Siberian region of Yakutia, who has had several attempts to march to Moscow on foot "to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin" stopped by the authorities, has been accused of attacking a police officer.
Ninety-nine years after the Battle of Volochayevka, history buffs relive the clash that many see as the end of the Russian Civil War.
The dean of the biotechnology department of an agriculture university in Irkutsk justified the use of chemical weapons as a "containment policy" during a dressing-down of a student who protested last month against the arrest of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny.
A man sentenced for his involvement in two terrorist attacks in Moscow in 1999 has been found dead in a Siberian prison.
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