Russian asylum seekers, some held without charge for more than two years, are among dozens of detainees on hunger strike at a privately-run immigration jail in the U.S. state of Ge...

In August, Mediazona broke the story of Oleg Varyukhin, the man charged with treason in Russia for paying mandatory taxes as a small business owner in Ukraine. Now, his estranged d...

Russian authorities have dropped the criminal case alleging the spread of “fake news about the army” against Lida Moniava, the prominent director of the Lighthouse (“Dom s Mayakom”...

A military court in Yekaterinburg has sentenced Leonid Melekhin, an activist deported to Russia after a failed U.S. asylum bid, to six years in prison. The court convicted him of “...

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...

The Russian publisher Individuum has removed all references to LGBTQ+ people from its translation of “The Identity Trap”, a new book by the political scientist Yascha Mounk. The mo...

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 the summer of 2025, a court in Sevastopol, annexed Crimea, sentenced Viktoria and Alexandra Strilets to 12 years in prison for treason. According to the prosecution, the mother ...

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...