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A court in the Russian city of Kazan has extended the detention of Alsu Kurmasheva, a veteran journalist of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Tatar-Bashkir Service who has been in Russian custody since October 18, by two months until April 5.

A Russian court has ordered a detained Russian-American journalist to be held in jail for two more months pending her trial on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent.

A Russian court on Thursday extended until 5 April the detention of US-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva on charges denounced by her employers as politically motivated.

KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) -A Russian court on Thursday extended the pre-trial detention of Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist who is accused of ...

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A Russian court has ordered a detained Russian-American journalist to be held in jail for two more months pending her trial on charges of failing to […]

A Russian court has ordered a detained Russian-American journalist to be held in jail for two more months pending her trial on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent.

The National Press Club and the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty said Thursday they are outraged by Russia's decision to extend the detention of American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva to April 5.

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Thursday ordered a detained Russian-American journalist to be held in jail for two more months pending trial in a case widely seen as part of the Kremlin’s unrelenting crackdown on dissent and free speech. Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir service, […]

The case against Kurmasheva was brought after she was accused of failing to register her U.S. passport when she travelled to Russia to visit her elderly mother