Moscow’s Basmanny district court has arrested five Muslims from Russia’s Islamic North Caucasus region in connection with the murder of Boris Nemtsov, a prominent opposition figure, who was gunned down last week. Two judges are reviewing the charges against the five people brought before the court by the prosecutors on Sunday. Two of them are Zaur Dadaev and Anzor Gubashev, who were identified... 

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is detained by the police during a protest in central Moscow. Russian prosecutors have demanded jail term for a top opposition leader suspected of embezzlement. Alexei Navalny appeared before a court in the central Russian city of Kirov on Friday. If convicted, the 37-year-old opposition leader could face a six-year jail term. In that case, he will effectively...