Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny smiled as he was sentenced to 10 days in prison for organizing an unauthorized protest, at a court hearing in Moscow on July 1.
Russian officials have raised the official number of dead from flooding in the southern Siberian region of Irkutsk to 18.
An activist working for opposition politician Aleksei Navalny in the mid-Volga region city of Saratov has said people claiming to be agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB) threatened her if she did not agree to work as an informant.
A city festival in Novosibirsk celebrated the 140th anniversary of Josef Stalin's birth with dancers, DJs, and discussions. The Soviet dictator was responsible for millions of deaths, but Russian officials have often sought to whitewash his legacy, and many admirers showed up for the party.
The ombudswoman of the Russian region of Buryatia, Yulia Zhambalova, says she wants a music video clip containing scenes that Internet users called "violence against inmates" to be investigated by the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN).
Advertisements for a new residential building called STALIN-HOUSE in the Russian city of Novosibirsk have sparked harsh criticism from city residents on social networks.
Communists in the Russian city of Novosibirsk have unveiled a bust of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in a place that local authorities say will "suit everyone."
The head of Russia's Siberian region of Tyva is demanding the Defense Ministry relocate a military test field away from an area close to a village after a teenager was seriously injured in an explosion.
A court in the Russian city of Novosibirsk has convicted three members of an outlawed nationalist opposition group of plotting mass unrest in a case linked to rallies ahead of the centennial of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
Russia's communications watchdog has given social media companies Twitter and Facebook nine months to move Russian users' data onto servers in Russia, the Interfax news agency reports.
The head of Russia’s Sakha-Yakutia region has signed a decree banning the employment of foreigners in dozens of economic sectors and other activities, amid tensions following the arrest of a Central Asian migrant suspected of raping a local woman.
A Russian schoolteacher who says she was hounded from her job and likened to a prostitute after posting a photograph of herself in a thigh-high dress is getting some support from local officials.
An activist in Russia's Far East has been questioned by police who accuse her of distributing pornography over a series of hand-drawn posters promoting positive body images of women. It wasn't her first run-in with the law this month.
Police in Russia's Sakha-Yakutia region have detained a group of people accused of attacking migrants from Central Asia following the arrest of a Kyrgyz man suspected of raping a local woman.
Residents of a Siberian town were outraged when a prominent defense lawyer was found dead, one day after recording a video purportedly showing police investigators beating a detained suspect. The video has not been found.
President Vladimir Putin lauded the opportunities his government had created for young people in his state-of-the-nation address on February 20. The same day, in Novosibirsk, a young heart surgeon who won one of those honors in 2018 was arrested, accused by the FSB of embezzling $20 million.
Lyu Pen-Sei grew up in a gulag and is now back living among his childhood barracks.
Some residents of condemned Soviet-era housing blocks in the Kuntsevo district of Moscow -- known as "Khrushchyovka" after Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev -- have been waiting 10 years to relocate. But many are now reluctant to move in to new apartments because of what they say are major flaws.
Six miners have been killed in a road accident in Russia's Siberian region of Kemerovo, local officials say.
A 65-year old pensioner has become pole-dance star in Siberia. Svetlana Miroshkina works as a supermarket cleaner by day and pole dances by night.
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