Members of the female band Pussy Riot have called their “punk prayer” performed at a Christian church an “ethical mistake", but still plead not gealty to charges of hooliganism.

Headlines like "Two Chechens Attacked a Russian" breed wrong stereotypes and strengthen xenophobia, the State Duma deputy claims. A law introducing respective changes to the mass-media code of conduct may come into force this autumn.

Russia’s first public Muslim TV channel, Al-RTV, will go on air in August. The channel is expected to target young and active viewers.

As a part of reforming the law on weapons, a group of Russian senators have suggested legalizing possession of short-stemmed arms for citizens' self-defense.

Romanov Imperial House is opposed to the idea of Russian Monarchists to create their own political party seeking the revival of the Russian Empire.

Several prominent officials were detained on a charge of criminal negligence during a deadly flood that ravaged the city of Krymsk in southern Russia.

On Wednesday, the Russia's Federation Council approved such controversial bills as Internet blacklists, criminalizing defamation, branding some NGOs “foreign agents" and others.

The Ministry of Justice in the Primorskiy region issued a warning to the regional Muslim organization for violating the new law about rallies by holding the traditional religious namaz prayer.

Deputies of the ruling party are planning to include Russian media sources which have foreign sources of income into the list of "specially checked" organizations.

Religious activists from the Russian city of Saratov have demanded Facebook be banned in the country over “gay propaganda” among minors.