Warning: This book review contains graphic descriptions. While embedded with Ukrainian forces entering Bakhmut in December ...

Lana Pylaeva was born and raised in Russia’s northwestern republic of Komi in a family of Komi, a Finno-Ugric ethnic group indigenous to the region. A scientist by training, Pylaeva had been living ...

Independent media plays a vital role in ensuring the continued flow of information to Russian audiences,” Brussels explains.

President Vladimir Putin has clamped down on free expression in Russia to a degree unseen since the Soviet era. Now he is ...

A number of Orthodox priests who are against Russia's invasion of Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany, where they face many challenges.

Political repression in Russia is aimed at destroying not just oppositional thinking, but free thinking as such, because even ...

A former Russian deputy defence minister, Timur Ivanov, was in court on Wednesday for a preliminary hearing on charges of embezzlement and money laundering that could see him jailed for years. Russia ...

Amongst certain circles in Washington, there is real panic right now about the possibility of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine ...

The late Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner mercenary force has been accused of plotting attacks against Western ...

In an age of ideological conformity and technological brain-suck, the world needs more disobedient artists and thinkers.

The top lawyer of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ... right words to stop him returning to Moscow in 2021. Olga Mikhailova, who defended Navalny for 16 years, said his return ...