The Kremlin’s campaign to harass, intimidate and murder opponents and exiles takes another major step back to the days of Stalin.

The Kremlin’s campaign to harass, intimidate and murder opponents and exiles takes another major step back to the days of Stalin.

Spy hunting shores up Putin’s power—but paralyzes the state.

Western countries still hope for a simple response to the Russia's rising wave of destruction. The answer is in the lessons of the Cold War.

Spy hunting shores up Putin’s power—but paralyzes the state.

Spy hunting shores up Putin’s power—but paralyzes the state.

Spy hunting shores up Putin’s power—but paralyzes the state.

To secure its grip on power, Russia adopts Soviet practices coupled with modern tactics of covert influence, violence, and manipulation.

To secure its grip on power, Russia adopts Soviet practices coupled with modern tactics of covert influence, violence, and manipulation.

To secure its grip on power, Russia adopts Soviet practices coupled with modern tactics of covert influence, violence, and manipulation.

The days when the KGB’s successors were content with plain clothes and concealed weapons are gone — they are much more ambitious these days.

The Kremlin’s incessant, restrictive attack on the Internet has apparently scored some successes in limiting the population's usage.

Intelligence agency obsessions can seem eccentric from a distance, but they map the mind and the game theory of the Kremlin’s security elite.

The Russian despotism has done everything possible to shut down information sharing, but film and culture retain a power beyond its reach.

Western sanctions and weapons have failed to end the war in Ukraine, but offering incentives to powerful figures in the military and security services could tip the balance

The Kremlin's efforts to show it's an accepted member of the global community require enormous work by every arm of the regime.

Russians were told to expect a defining speech from Putin, but got only the same old messages and that the Kremlin has lost direction.

Russians are willing to tolerate a lot, but there's a limit. As the country's internet regulators are discovering.

Russians are willing to tolerate a lot, but there’s a limit. As the country’s internet regulators are discovering.

Putin and his coercive security services have created a problem among ordinary Russians that has no easy solution.

The Russian parliamentarians now arriving in the US have very little influence back home. Their trip has another purpose.

Andrei Soldatov and his colleague Irina Borogan say that the Kremlin’s intelligence services believe they are in an eternal war against the West

A leaked cache of messages and recordings offers rare insight into Moscow’s efforts to infiltrate opposition groups in Europe.

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The Russian parliamentarians now arriving in the US have very little influence back home. Their trip has another purpose.

Office workers toiling with blocked internet. Teenagers continually forced to switch VPNs. Taxi drivers struggling to find their way around Moscow without online navigation.

Deux journalistes russes d'investigation témoignent de plus de deux décennies aux prises avec le pouvoir en Russie.

Daria Boyarskaya coordinating OSCE mission overseeing vote in which pro-Moscow Viktor Orbán could lose power

Russia's war against international law reaches beyond words and now includes the use of military special forces on foreign soil.

Russia's war against international law reaches beyond words and now includes the use of military special forces on foreign soil.

As the fourth anniversary looms of Russia’s war on Ukraine, those close to the Kremlin prosper while others merely strive to escape the worst repression, say Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Ir...

Putin's secret police organizations are among a small band of winners from Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

As the fourth anniversary looms of Russia’s war on Ukraine, those close to the Kremlin prosper while others merely strive to escape the worst repression, say Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

As the fourth anniversary looms of Russia’s war on Ukraine, those close to the Kremlin prosper while others merely strive to escape the worst repression, say Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Ir...

In the UK, the term transnational repression is widely accepted to refer to instances of intimidation, violence and harassment by a state against people in another state. Evidence has suggested that v...

In the UK, the term transnational repression is widely accepted to refer to instances of intimidation, violence and harassment by a state against people in another state. Evidence has suggested that v...

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Vergleiche autoritärer Tendenzen unserer Zeit mit Deutschland 1930 sind Unsinn. Analogien zu Russland 2010 sind treffender.

State security agencies are amplifying warnings to enemies of the state using compliant pro-Kremlin Russian journalists.

Livsvalg. En tæt vennekreds af liberale russiske journalister fra årtusindskiftet er i dag splittet for alle vinde. De fleste arbejder nu for Putins propagandatjeneste. Hvorfor?