The recent detainment and alleged torture of a reporter on espionage charges highlights the grim reality of media in the Russian-controlled peninsula
This next stage of the endless war will only lead to more suffering as new players jockey for position while the Taliban increases control
Against a backdrop of politicisation and repression, what does it mean to be a student in Russia in 2021?
The opposition leader is destroying the symbolic border between Russia’s prison system and the outside world
A murder in Syria might finally prove that the Kremlin is responsible for human rights violations by the Wagner Group of Russian mercenaries
Health experts call for action from regulators to protect women from spread of controversial method supported by US Christian Right activists
The government’s defence review, published this week, is a reminder of its shocking inaction to protect UK democracy from Putin's Russia
The scholar devoted her life to the Indigenous peoples of the North Pacific in Russia, voicing their rights to live where they have for centuries
My experience as a foreign student and civil rights activist in Prague opened my eyes to what life in Putin’s Russia is really like.
On 18 February, the first Russian citizen was convicted of working for a foreign “undesirable organisation” in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. As Polina Efimova reports, the city has a notorious track record of political prosecutions.
