Scattered across the world, Circassians are increasingly active online. Now in Russia, activists are putting forward an initiative to unite under a single name.

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Two new reports about human right violations in Russian-occupied regions of Georgia underline that the EU needs to increase support for the International Criminal Court.

After a year in pre-trial detention, Oyub Titiyev becomes the latest civil society activist to be convicted on what rights defenders believe are fabricated drugs charges.

In Yakutia, crime and nationality intertwine in the latest wave of anti-migrant feeling in Russia.

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Mass arrests of Crimean Tatar activists on terrorism charges once again testify to the “special rules” that are being enforced on the peninsula.

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In Russia, 11 anti-fascists and anarchists are facing terrorism charges - and the case is about to go to trial. According to one of their lawyers, there's no evidence of a conspiracy.

This year, brutal repressions against LGBT people continued in Chechnya. Here, the director of the Russian LGBT Network speaks about why this keeps happening.

Thirty years on from the end of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, war veterans are having to deal with contemporary conflicts in their search for friendship and recognition.

Five years on, the role of local people in Russia’s annexation of Crimea has been underestimated. Yet their help was vital in seizing the peninsula for Russia.

Внедрение теологии в светские вузы видится многим критикам как еще один шаг в сторону идеологии “духовных скреп”. Однако теология может помочь развитию демократии, если будет опираться на принцип академических свобод.

The fundamental ideology of the Putin regime may be depoliticisation, but protests and petitions are leading to direct and open questions to Russia’s ruling elite.

After years of violence, displacement and an authoritarian peace, what is life like for ethnic Russians in the most mono-ethnic and mono-faith area of Russia?

A strike by Russian grain hauliers, demanding higher pay and an end to corruption, has gripped the south of the country. RU

New reports of mass arrests, torture and murder of LGBT people in Chechnya remind us that accountability is tragically lacking in this Russian republic.

After the first defendant in a high-profile terrorism investigation is sentenced, new evidence emerges that security services may have used an agent provocateur against Russian anti-fascists.

Ten years ago this month, Russian activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered. Here, we publish an extended interview with him on the fate of worker-led activism in post-Soviet Russia.

Ten years ago this month, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. We publish his reflections on power, the state and revolutionary maximalism here for the first time in English.

Ten years ago, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. His legacy tells us why anti-fascism remains vitally important in Russia today.

Ten years ago this month, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. We publish his reflections on Russian society’s nostalgia for the Soviet period here for the first time in English.