Opinion | A recent article in The Spectator by the British former diplomat Nigel Gould-Davies raises an important question about the relationship between the European Union and Russia’s democratic opp...

I settle the debate once and for all

On May 12, the dissident and human rights activist Nina Litvinova died by suicide in Moscow. From the late 1960s on, she devoted her whole life to helping political prisoners, first in the Soviet…

Despite severe repression, Russian exile civil society groups remain a critical bastion for human rights, education, and media.

"We ask for prayers for the salvation of the shrine from destruction. Another Russian crime against humanity, against history, against Christianity," Metropolitan Epiphanies, head of the Orthodox Chur...

Apple removed 190 apps from its Russian App Store at the request of Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor between 2022 and 2024, the company’s own annual transparency reports for those three years sh...

Silicon Valley is pulling the plug. The Kremlin is locking the doors. Inside the race to cut Russia off from the global internet — and what comes after.

Russian authorities have justified the restrictions on security grounds.

Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has adopted many laws that allow to prosecute for any dissent to the actions of its army. Thousands of people are fine...

Hundreds of millions in payments were made to a firm co-owned by Timur Kulibayev, son-in-law of the resource-rich nation’s longtime ruler.

The Russian army has swelled since Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Months into the war, Russia conducted a “partial mobilization” for several chaotic…

Western media is largely ignoring that Kyiv has to rip young men off the streets amid recruitment shortages and desertions

Diana Loginova sang songs critical of the Kremlin. The 18-year-old and her bandmate are now in court.

Moscow activist Konstantin Kotov’s first criminal case was in 2019: he was sentenced to four years in prison for participating in “unsanctioned protests.” After public outcry it wa...

Russia has not scaled back its ambitions and America will not pressure it to do so. Territorial issues and security guarantees are currently second-order issues. The war remains intractable.

Russia’s rulers are taking more and more extreme measures to block access to independently produced information. But there’s resistance.

Russia has established an extensive network of state-backed organizations aimed at incorporating schoolchildren into the country’s military-industrial complex, including the production, development, a...

Children of soldiers deployed to Ukraine are increasingly being classified as “at-risk” and removed from their homes to state-run orphanages and boarding schools, according to reports from officials i...

A court in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has jailed seven people pending trial on charges of murder and attempted murder targeting members of the Azerbaijani community between 2001 and 2011.…

Police raided the Baku office of the Russian media agency Sputnik Azerbaijan on Monday, according to local media reports citing the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry.

Exclusive: All but two of the programs awarded under the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor would be cut, affecting nearly $1.3bn in grants

Syarhei Tsikhanouski seen smiling in video shared by wife Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya after his release One of the leaders of Belarus’s opposition movement, Syarhei Tsikhanouski, has been released from jail after being pardoned, the Belarusian human rights group Viasna has said. His wife, Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya, who took over the opposition cause after his jailing, on Saturday shared a video of him smiling and embracing her after his release with the caption: “FREE”. Continue reading...

For months, the family of Stephen James Hubbard could not find him in the Russian prison system. New text messages cast doubt on his conviction.

Austria is deporting Chechen asylum seekers to Russia despite warnings they could be forcibly recruited to fight in Ukraine, court documents obtained by AFP show.

The latest report in the Atlantic Council’s Russia Tomorrow series explores Russia’s wartime cyber operations.

Among the detained are distribution director at Eksmo as well as employees of Popcorn Books and Individuum

The trial of Grigory Melkonyants, a prominent Russian election expert and co-chair of Golos, an independent election monitoring movement, is concluding in Moscow’s Basmanny Court. ...

Russia lacks any formal, organized effort to account for legions of missing soldiers. That often leaves relatives in limbo, fending for themselves with scant government information.