After a decade in the wilderness, Russian civil society is finding a powerful voice online. Alexey Sidorenko and...

On Sunday, Belarus goes to the polls, ending an election cycle that saw all the usual assumptions turned on their...

On Thursday evening, prominent TV journalist Leonid Parfyonov broke with the etiquette of live award ceremonies, and...

Russia’s summer of the wildfires brought about a change in society, says Andrei Loshak. Previously the only possible...

Last Thursday, Pavel Stroilov presented a piece that alleged I had been paid to publish articles in the Independent,...

Subsidised articles and broadcasts spin the official line and the erosion of media freedom is gathering speed in...

Researching the Russian nationalistic right is a game of high stakes. Last year, I found out the hard way, writes...

Oleg Kashin, a journalist for Kommersant newspaper, was brutally beaten in Moscow last weekend. Unknown assailants...

At the beginning of September, the Independent’s Mary Dejevsky presented an improbably flattering portrait of St...

Six months into office, Yanukovych has moved swiftly to strengthen government. Indications are mounting that his...

Vakhtang Komakhidze was an investigative journalist in Georgia with a nose for a story and a record of annoying the...

A recently published book about President Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan confirms that the cult of personality is...

During the war with Russia in 2008, Georgians turned to online media in a big way. But with Western funding...

In 2004, some local journalists in Oryol founded an independent newspaper ‘for those who want the truth’. Although...

Throughout Russian and Soviet history, the intellectual has played a central and hugely influential role in society....

So far the Russian government has resisted the temptation of controlling the Russian internet, but this may be about...

Control of St.Petersburg’s television station, once free-thinking and vibrant, has been handed to producers from...