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Netizens are critical of a man who has claimed that paying seven years of unpaid alimony is a generous "Valentine's gift" to his former wife for his two daughters.
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Tabloid news outlet LifeNews has an exclusive video of a shootout in St Petersburg. Fortunately, there were no injuries, despite the ferocity of the firefight.
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An investigation is currently underway into a young boy who shot his geography teacher in what appears to be an exsistential crisis. Netizens discuss his actions.
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Amongst others, Pussy Riot and the crew of the Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise are to be granted amnesty in celebration of 20 years of the Russian constituation.
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Greenpeace activists who stormed an oil rig to hang a banner asking us to save the arctic have been charged with piracy by a Murmansk court, netizens are shocked.
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Netizens are up in arms over a verdict handed down to a singer imposing a (relatively) small fine on a singer who kicked a policeman while refusing a medical test.
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A group of 5 unarmed drunks overpowered two policemen, taking their weapons, while soldiers sat in the carriage not getting involved, under orders from officers.
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A woman has been arrested in Moscow after breaking an icon worth over £20,000 in what was apparently a "fit of hooliganism", but netizens remain unconvinced.
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Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's parole appeal has been denied because she refused to take part in a beauty contest, meaning her behaviour was not impeccable.
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In an unusually brave and daring manoeuvre, an apparently homeless woman sneaks up behind a group of men drinking in a garage, and takes a bag from behind them.
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The mayor of the Russian town of Yaroslavl has been arrested after $500,000 was found in his apartment, that his daughter tried to hide next door after his arrest.
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A man from Volgograd has been charged with stealing a bridge which went missing in the village of Frolovo. Police found him by following tractor tracks to his home.
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A St. Petersburger has been arrested after registering a huge number of migrant workers at his flat illegally, and apparently is facing up to 5 years in prison.
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The judge in the Pussy Riot parole hearing has refused to grant parole, despite receiving letters from Sir Paul McCartney requesting the release of the musicians.
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Since 2010, Russia have released 100,000 prisoners, bringing the number incarcerated in Russia to approximately 5 per thousand, compared to the US's 7.4 per 1000.
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Due to a lack of staffing, forced labour, due to become a possible sentence for minor offences this year, is to be postponed, according to the Kremlin website.
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Dmitry Medvedev has spoken about increasing the fine for traffic offences such as speeding and running a red light to 20 times the average monthly salary in Russia.