People who speak out about wrongdoing in the workplace can often face blacklisting, harassment and legal action....

Russians far from the frontline – women, children, pensioners, the jobless – explain how the war is affecting them

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who leads the notorious Wagner army, sought to attack the BBC two months before the Ukraine invasion

OPINION: Instead of launching a war, the US and UK could have weaned us off the fossil fuels that pay for the brutal...

More than 8m Ukrainians are living elsewhere in Europe. What’s happening to them – and their host countries?

Labour MP Clive Lewis: There is a crucial distinction between the UK’s imperialist wars, and Ukraine’s self-defence

Salary cuts will have a negative impact on their morale, preparedness and medical treatment, say soldiers

OPINION: The 2003 Iraq war led to huge numbers of civilian deaths, and continuing insurgencies in the Middle East and Africa

Dmitry Ivanov has been sentenced to eight and a half years behind bars for speaking out. This is his story

OPINION: Anti-government protests in both countries jeopardise already shaky deal to limit Iran’s nuclear programme

Many of the UK’s most prominent institutions are using private intelligence firms to snoop on activists

Exclusive: Iran’s leaders use the UK’s increasingly hostile asylum policies to warn political refugees against fleeing

After 30 years, the border between the two countries reopened – briefly – to let in aid. Is a thaw in sight?

OPINION: A pro-Russian president in the White House would shift the outcome of a prolonged war in Putin’s favour

Human rights conditions in the Russian-backed separatist enclave have been deteriorating since the invasion of Ukraine

OPINION: Some US army officials think the stalemate in Ukraine can be broken only through negotiations. Will they say so?

Ukrainian feminists look back at the challenging year that has reinvigorated their activism and shaped their values

The undercover policing inquiry is downplaying spying on trade unions and government involvement in blacklisting

As Azerbaijan continues its blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh for the 68th day, children must endure the grown-ups’ stalemate

A Ukrainian writer reflects on the life she left behind in occupied Donetsk and her new start in Kyiv