To avoid years of warfare in Ukraine, the West needs to deal with Russia as it is now, not as it should be

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The Magomedov brothers defrauded the Russian state of billions – via a Scottish limited partnership

Russian independent media outlets are making a painful transition from Kremlin censorship to life in exile

The author returns to his home town, to discover how locals are coping now the Russians have gone

OPINION: Ukraine could be doomed to years of low-level conflict with Russia, with Ukrainian people paying the price

Russia has passed a controversial law banning the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality. Here’s what you need to know

Russia urged international cooperation while ignoring its own role in making the climate crisis worse

Are there prospects for peace in Ukraine amid Russian missile attacks and a winter battlefield stalemate?

Exclusive: Russian troops guilty of homophobic abuse including sexual violence and imprisonment, says LGBTIQ group

Snake Island became a powerful symbol of Ukraine’s resistance. But the prisoners’ families say they feel forgotten

OPINION: Russia was threatened by Ukraine’s emergent democracy. Here’s what that means for the path to peace

By mobilising working class and minority ethnic men for war against Ukraine, Russia launched its first class war of...

Some 30 members of Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanised Brigade are thought to have been captured. But their families are in the dark

Some five million members of the siloviki are responsible for maintaining Putin's crackdown on any opposition

The former energy secretary had claimed anti-fracking groups were funded by the Russian president

A closer look at the world of some anti-Putin emigrants shows they are no great loss to any future revolution

For the first time in 30 years, Russians are heading to Central Asia rather than the other way around – to escape war

Money for Ukraine’s recovery must ‘not disappear into the hands of oligarchs’, Nadia Whittome told openDemocracy

Those standing up to the war report horrific instances of abuse at the hands of the authorities

Timofey Radya talks to openDemocracy about anti-war resistance in the streets and his love for his country