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The final part of the trial of Russian historian Oleg Sokolov, accused of murdering and dismembering his former student lover, resumes in St Petersburg. Prosecutors in Saint Petersburg have requested a 15-year jail term for a decorated Russian historian and Napoleon enthusiast. IMAGES
A Russian court sentences respected Gulag historian Yury Dmitriyev to more than three years in prison in a controversial sexual abuse case, his lawyer Viktor Anufriyev said to reportes outside the courthouse in northwestern russian city Petrozavodsk. The lawyer said he had not yet received the written verdict and it was possible that with time served in pre-trial detention Dmitriyev could be free in September. IMAGES of outside courthouse
Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov walks free from the Investigation Department of the Moscow Police after criminal charges against him are lifted. IMAGES
A Moscow court has ordered a French researcher accused of breaching Russia's "foreign agent" law to be held in jail until February next year, at the start of a trial that comes amid tensions between Russia and the West over the Ukraine conflict. IMAGES
The trial of a French researcher accused of violating Russia's "foreign agent" law begins in Moscow amid simmering tensions with Paris over Ukraine. Laurent Vinatier, who worked on conflict mediation for a Swiss NGO and was arrested in June, appears in a glass cage for defendants at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky court as the trial opens. He faces up to five years in prison. IMAGES