Lynn Berry

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People carry posters of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the words reading "March Against the Scum and Shame" during a protest rally in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, with the banner reading "Dissolution of the State Duma". Thousands of people are gathering in central Moscow for a protest against Russia's new law banning Americans from adopting Russian children. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

Thousands march to protest Russia’s adoption ban

Lynn Berry · January 13, 2013 5:00 am

Russian orphan with US ‘parents’ becomes TV star

Lynn Berry · January 11, 2013 12:13 am

CORRECTING RESORT LOCATION TO DOMBAI - In this undated family handout photo provided Wednesday Jan. 9, 2013, by Yekaterina Achkasova and distributed by the APTN, showing Denis Burakov and his wife Yekaterina Achkasova as they pose for a picture at a winter sports venue at Dombai in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia. Burakov was killed and another man badly injured Thursday Jan. 3, 2013, when a thrilling ride down a ski slope inside a giant inflatable ball called a zorb, ended in tragedy when the zorb veered off course and sailed over a cliff. (AP Photo/Family photo provided by Yekaterina Achkasova, APTN)

Zorb ride in Russian mountains proves deadly

Lynn Berry · January 9, 2013 5:00 am

Police officers detain opposition leader Alexei Navalny during an unauthorized rally in Lubyanka Square in Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. Thousands of opposition supporters have gathered in central Moscow for an unauthorized rally where several prominent opposition figures have been detained.(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Unauthorized anti-Putin rally draws thousands

Lynn Berry · December 15, 2012 4:13 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is seen with a bandaged hand as he arrives for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. NATO foreign ministers are expected to approve Turkey's request for Patriot anti-missile systems to bolster its defense against possible strikes from neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Russia’s leaders battered by ‘sports injuries’

Lynn Berry · December 4, 2012 9:07 pm

Georgian grape pickers show government’s challenge

Lynn Berry · September 30, 2012 6:24 pm

Russia accuses USAID of trying to sway elections

Lynn Berry · September 19, 2012 10:34 pm

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks at a protest rally in Moscow, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. Thousands of protesters marched across downtown Moscow on Saturday in the first major rally in three months against President Vladimir Putin, while defying the Kremlin's ongoing efforts to crackdown on opposition. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Anti-Putin protest draws tens of thousands

Lynn Berry, Vladimir Isachenkov · September 15, 2012 4:00 am

Russian PM calls for Pussy Riot to be freed

Lynn Berry · September 12, 2012 4:05 pm

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov speaks during an interview to the Associated Press in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. Gatilov said Russia is working closely with the Syrian government to make sure its arsenal of chemical weapons remains securely in place. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Russia: We have Syrian guarantees on chemical arms

Lynn Berry · August 23, 2012 4:00 am

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 17, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova show the court's verdict as they sit in a glass cage at a courtroom in Moscow. The two-year prison sentence handed down to Pussy Riot for a provocative protest inside a Moscow cathedral called attention to just how hard President Vladimir Putin is clamping down on minor displays of dissent. But Russia isn't the only country where people are punished for offenses that many in the West might consider trivial. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)

Pussy Riot-like justice around the world

Lynn Berry · August 20, 2012 4:00 am

An investigator guarding by Russian police officers carries a box after a police search in Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny flat in Moscow, Russia, June 11, 2012. Russian investigators searched the apartments of several protest leaders Monday and called them in for questioning Tuesday, making it difficult if not impossible for them to lead a mass demonstration against President Vladimir Putin planned for the June 12 national holiday. (AP Photo/Leonid Lebedev)

Russian police search protest leaders’ apartments

Lynn Berry · June 12, 2012 5:21 am