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Growing discontent in regions could lead to a political reshuffle in towns and municipalities across Russia. In the country's far northern district of Pechenga, a wide coalition is formed to overthrow the long-ruling United Russia party. 


Violetta Grudina was standing peacefully alone on the Five Corner square downtown Murmansk, holding a placard asking for the crime against Alexey Navalny to be thoroughly investigated.

After 1,5 year of blockage in Russia, the Barents Observer's appeal case against Russian media regulators is addressed in court.

The 100-year anniversary of the international agreement has been accompanied by mounting Russian government pressure and a wave of repulsive coverage in Russian media.

The Supreme Court of Karelia has denied the appeal of the defense of local history expert Yuri Dmitriev against the prolongation of his arrest.

Political activist Ruslan Shaveddinov has been transferred to a desolate post in the militarized Arctic archipelago without telephone signal.

Pressure against domestic media is mounting and the country steps up efforts to spread fake news abroad.

Ruslan Shaveddinov used to march the streets of Moscow in protests against the Kremlin. Now, he drives missile-carrying trucks in one of Russia's remotest military bases.

Independent organization Memorial must pay the state 4.1 million rubles.

Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor says online journal 7x7-journal broke the law when it published a series of blog posts in the local Komi language, as well as two translations in English.