Moscow’s Perovsky District Court sent prominent Russian political scientist Alexander Kynev to pre-trial detention on large-scale drug charges following an arrest where he was seve...

Russian Supreme Court has proposed drastically changing how jury trials operate, including reducing the number of jurors to four and combining them with the presiding judge into a ...

Last week, we learned that St. Petersburg resident Vitaly Smidovich had died in Ukraine. The man, who suffered from epileptic seizures, was lured with an offer to repair houses dam...

After a year and four months in pre-trial detention, four Russian truck drivers accused of participating in the 2025 devastating Ukrainian drone strike on airfields across Russia d...

A Moscow court sent prominent Russian food historian Pavel Syutkin who once officially represented the country at a world fair has been sentenced to prison for six years on charges...

A prosecutor at the Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg has requested a 7.5-year prison sentence for Protestant preacher Eduard Charov, his wife told Mediazona. Charov...

In early September, Moscow activists Daria Bunkova and Nabi Balabekov fled Russia after being arrested over an “unauthorized rally.” On August 10, they had gone to the Supreme Cour...

Lida Moniava, the director of the prominent children’s hospice Lighthouse (“Dom s Mayakom”), was detained in Moscow under the charges of spreading “fake news” about the Russian arm...

For more than a year, 17 Ukrainian citizens have been living in a basement at a Russian-Georgian border crossing. Russia expelled them for immigration violations, but Georgia refus...

Russia’s prison system is closed and opaque even where its own citizens are concerned, but Ukrainian prisoners of war find themselves in a position of near-total isolation from the...

Judge Victoria Malyamova of the Pskov City Court in western Russia has sentenced Lev Shlosberg, a prominent opposition figure and a deputy chairman of the liberal Yabloko party, to...

Moscow City Court has upheld the pretrial detention of a 60-year-old entrepreneur accused of treason on the grounds that he paid income tax in Ukraine, Mediazona correspondent repo...

Russia’s Supreme Court cancelled the registration of Yabloko’s federal candidate list, striking the only party opposing the war against Ukraine from the ballot for the parliamentar...