Russian asylum seekers, some held without charge for more than two years, are among dozens of detainees on hunger strike at a ...

In August, Mediazona broke the story of Oleg Varyukhin, the man charged with treason in Russia for paying mandatory taxes as a small business owner in Ukraine. Now, his estranged ...

Russian authorities have dropped the criminal case alleging the spread of “fake news about the army” against Lida Moniava, ...

Photo of Melekhin crossing the U.S. border posted by “Bobr. There and Back Again (An Immigration Diary)”, a Telegram channel A military court in Yekaterinburg has sentenced Leonid Melekhin, an ...

Lenur Khalilov, the 58-year-old former head of the independent Muslim community “Alushta”—sentenced to 18 years in prison for ...

Moscow’s Perovsky District Court sent prominent Russian political scientist Alexander Kynev to pre-trial detention on large-scale drug charges following an arrest where he was ...

Russian Supreme Court has proposed drastically changing how jury trials operate, including reducing the number of jurors to four and combining them with the presiding judge into a single panel.

Last week, we learned that St. Petersburg resident Vitaly Smidovich had died in Ukraine. The man, who suffered from epileptic seizures, was lured with an offer to repair houses damaged by drones, ...

Today marks the fourth anniversary of the “partial” mobilisation. Announced by Vladimir Putin in September 2022 following a series of military setbacks on the battlefield, the decree triggered the ...

After a year and four months in pre-trial detention, four Russian truck drivers accused of participating in the 2025 devastating Ukrainian drone strike on airfields across Russia dubbed “Operation ...