Sasha Skochilenko and Sofya Subbotina are planning to get married
August 13, 2024
A human rights activist since the 1980s, Oleg Orlov thought Russia had turned a corner when the Soviet Union collapsed and a democratically elected president became leader
August 09, 2024
When Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was suddenly moved to a detention center in Moscow from his Siberian prison, he thought he was being taken from his cell to be shot
August 02, 2024
One prisoner has spent over 5½ years behind bars in Russia while other, higher-profile detainees were released ahead of him
August 01, 2024
A Russian court says it has convicted Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, of spreading false information about the Russian military and sentenced her to 6½ years in prison following a secret trial
July 22, 2024
Over the past decade, Russia has seen a sharp increase in treason and espionage cases
July 14, 2024Treason cases were once rare in Russia, a handful each year
July 14, 2024Treason cases were once rare in Russia, a handful each year
July 14, 2024Media reports and rights groups say hundreds of protesters clashed with police in the Russian region of Bashkortostan in a rare display of public outrage after a court convicted a local activist and sentenced him to prison
January 17, 2024Russian authorities have extended the deadline for a preliminary probe into the still unexplained death of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to his ally
April 10, 2024Russian authorities say one person has died and scores more remain hospitalized in an outbreak of botulism spanning several regions
June 25, 2024Russian authorities have detained three people in connection with a suspected botulism outbreak
June 18, 2024A Russian court has started the trial of a theater director and a playwright facing charges of justifying terrorism over a play they staged, the latest step in the unrelenting crackdown on dissent in Russia that has reached unprecedented levels during Moscow's war in Ukraine
May 20, 2024
Russian authorities have again tried to link the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall to Ukraine, saying one of the detained suspects had photos on his phone depicting troops in camouflage uniforms with the Ukrainian flag
April 05, 2024
Calls are mounting to harshly punish those behind the Russia concert hall attack that killed more than 130 people, as authorities combed the burned-out ruins of the shopping and entertainment complex for more bodies
March 25, 2024
To no one’s surprise, President Vladimir Putin secured another six years in power in a preordained election landslide that comes amid the harshest crackdown on the opposition and free speech since Soviet times
March 18, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he supported an idea to release late opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prisoner exchange just days before the man who was his biggest foe died
March 17, 2024
When Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died suddenly last month in an Arctic prison, his team was left with a monumental challenge: sustaining an opposition movement against President Vladimir Putin without the living example of their defiant and charismatic leader
March 16, 2024
Voters are heading to the polls in Russia for a three-day presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule by six more years after he stifled dissent
March 14, 2024
A lonely man jailed for criticizing the government on his ham radio
March 09, 2024
Russians who are too fearful to protest in the streets are finding an outlet for their activism by writing letters to political prisoners
March 08, 2024
It’s not just opposition politicians who are targeted in the crackdown by the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent years
March 07, 2024
Over the last decade, Vladimir Putin’s government has evolved from tolerating dissent to ruthlessly suppressing any activities or people who dared challenge it
March 06, 2024
For political prisoners, life in Russia’s penal colonies and labor camps is a grim reality of physical and psychological pressure, insufficient food, poor health care, sleep deprivation and arbitrary rules that are impossible to obey
February 27, 2024
Associates of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say talks had been underway to exchange him for a Russian imprisoned in Germany
February 26, 2024
Multiple people shot along I-75 in southeastern Kentucky, authorities say
Police say active shooter in Kentucky left numerous people shot
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