How a radical Orthodox movement appointed itself Russia’s ‘morality police’. During ceremonial services, Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill is often surrounded by burly men in ...

A 59-year-old Latvian activist who moved to Russia in 2024 was tricked into signing a contract to fight in Ukraine while in ...

I’ve never seen kindness like this in my life,” she says. “There’s more kindness on one square kilometre here than in all of ...

Kharkiv teacher dies in a pre-trial detention centre in Sevastopol; Russian authorities claim she died by suicide ...

A 42-year-old man from the Russian city of Omsk has been reported missing near the front line in Ukraine, three months after ...

The US Department of Justice has asked a federal court in Massachusetts to dismiss the criminal case against Kseniia Petrova, ...

Software capable of remotely switching on microphones and recording audio without teachers’ knowledge has been found on ...

A police officer in Russia’s republic of Dagestan beat a disabled woman after she refused to go with him to the station, ...

Novaya Gazeta, the Moscow-based newspaper founded in 1993, has announced it is closing after more than three decades of work.

A 20-year-old man from St. Petersburg was threatened into signing a contract with the Russian Defence Ministry and then sent ...

Maksim Davydov, a human rights activist in Russian-occupied Donetsk, has not been heard from since the morning of 30 October, shortly after he said police were trying to break into his home, the ...