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The recent lawsuit by the Murmansk chief of police is only the last of many attempts to influence our editorial policy, regional news agency Flashnord says.

The Karelian historian and human rights leader will have to spend more weeks behind bars.

Thomas Nilsen is on a Russian so-called «stop-list» of individuals denied entry to the country, the Russian Embassy in Oslo confirms. A series of reports about Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and his controversial visit to Svalbard might have been what triggered the reaction.

No, Ria Novosti, we have never pointed the finger of blame at Ukraine as the source of a January radiation leak.

The activist who reported grave cases of torture in a Karelian prison has been released following a decision by the Russian Supreme Court.

Members of the Russian Human Rights Council pay visit to the White Sea-Baltic Canal and Sandarmokh ­– places of execution and mass burial of victims of the Great Terror of the 1930s.

A small group of activists assembled to commemorate the 2009 killing of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. They were not allowed to stand long by Murmansk police.

The Karelian daily Pripolyarie is only one of several newspapers which did not make it into the new year.

The detention of Yuri Dmitriev might be a provocation meant to discredit Memorial, representatives of the organisation say.

Following reports about torture and harassment, the arrested activist is taken out of the Segezha prison colony No 7.

A bill submitted to the State Duma proposes to increase federal funding of regional news makers. Legislators fear a mass closure of newspapers.

The meddling of Russian authorities in Norwegian musician Moddi’s concerts in northern Norway does not pose a threat to cross-border cultural cooperation, says Luba Kuzovnikova, leader of curator group Pikene på Broen.