An activist of the LGBT community demands 30 thousand rubles from the actor Ivan Okhlobystin as compensation for moral damage.

On Wednesday, Lawmakers in St. Petersburg called authorities to consider closing an independent television channel that caused outrage by holding a poll asking viewers if Leningrad should have been surrendered to the Nazis.

Russian police have uncovered and closed down more than 61,000 underground gambling establishments since gaming became illegal in the country in 2009, the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement on Wednesday.

Short version of the Kalashnikov (AKS74U) was found in a locker in the IKEA shopping center in Khimki.

The use of common expert technologies during the 22nd Olympic Winter Games and 11th Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi will provide a single barrier-free space in both sports and transportation facilities for people with limited mobility.

In Novocherkassk (Rostov Oblast), Ded Moroz Dmitry Devyatov, who in 2013 was recognized the best in the regional competition of Ded Morozes, is selling his residence, where he used to receive children. The sale announcement was published in Internet.

Several dozen Nobel laureates have signed an open letter published in The Independent British newspaper with an appeal to overturn controversial legislation dubbed “the gay propaganda law”.

The LDPR deputies brought a bill aimed at fight against the substitution of the caller’s number to the Duma, this law is to oblige the mobile operators to transmit an unchanged number of the user initiating the call.

Chelyabinsk Local History Museum announced the creative works contest dedicated to the fall of the “Chelyabinsk” meteorite. Every resident of the Southern Urals can participate in it. The winners will receive special prizes and souvenirs from the Local History Museum.

A bill introducing life imprisonment for anyone convicted of funding terrorism is expected to be submitted to the Russian parliament this week, one of Russian lawmakers told the press.