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The exiled Free Nations League says that a subunit of the formerly unknown Erzya Resistance movement torched a car belonging to Sergei Lyapunov, the head of the town of Zubova Polyana in Russia's Republic of Mordovia.
A court in Russia's southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don has sentenced another Crimean Tatar activist to 20 years in prison more than the sentence prosecutors sought on terrorism charges.
A court in Moscow has sentenced a man to 18 months in prison for allegedly attacking a police officer during a January rally in support of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny.
The Moscow-based Memorial human rights center has condemned a court decision to label a group of organizations associated with jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny as extremist.
In a statement on June 11, Memorial called the court's decision to label Navalny's regional campaign.