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• Kremlin accuses group of foreign journalists of planning smear campaign against Vladimir Putin before elections

  The Kremlin has warned of a reported plan to disrupt the upcoming parliamentary elections and taint Putin's reputation.

• Is Vladimir Putin now a grandfather? Magazine slammed with fines, cyber-attacks after expose on Russian President's daughters

  Russian magazine New Times is faced with a state fine and string of cyber-attacks after it released an article on the whereabouts and activities of older Putin daughter Maria.

• Blood near the Kremlin: Russia's media fight back

  A corpse on a bloodstained bridge, with the Kremlin's red stars glowing behind: the perfect symbolic backdrop, Russian media say, for the West to step up a campaign to vilify President Vladimir Putin.

• Russian prosecutors demand 10 years in jail for Kremlin critic: RIA

  Russian prosecutors demanded Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny be jailed for 10 years, appealing against the suspended sentence he was given in a theft case last year, news agency RIA reported.

• Kremlin critic Navalny questioned by investigators, office raided

  Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was questioned on Friday by Russian investigators and his offices were raided by police in what colleagues called an attack on his anti-corruption campaigning.

• Rosneft expansion thwarted by U.S. veto on Morgan Stanley deal

  The ambitions of Kremlin-controlled oil champion Rosneft to boost its global reach have been reined in by U.S. authorities, which torpedoed its acquisition of a Morgan Stanley oil trading business.

• Russia rights group says it is targeted by Kremlin to control history

  At the height of the uprising by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine this summer, a handful of human rights workers recorded that Russian soldiers had been killed on the battlefield, even though the Kremlin said its troops were never there.

• Russia protests over photographer's 'barbarous' killing in Ukraine

  The Russian Foreign Ministry accused Ukrainian forces on Wednesday of responsibility for the "barbarous" killing of a Russian photojournalist and demanded an investigation.