A judge in St Petersburg has fined feminist activist and artist Daria Apakhonchich 150,000 roubles (about $1,740) for ...

Mediazona was able to identify the 27 names of those who died in the military An-26 aircraft crash this spring. The plane, ...

For more than a year, 17 Ukrainian citizens have been living in a basement at a Russian-Georgian border crossing. Russia ...

Russia’s prison system is closed and opaque even where its own citizens are concerned, but Ukrainian prisoners of war find themselves in a position of near-total isolation from the outside world.

Major General Sergei Goryachev, chief of staff of the 35th Combined Arms Army, was killed in June 2023 while commanding forces against the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Zaporizhzhia region. In ...

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court is hearing cases against Apple Distribution International, which faces charges of disseminating materials considered “LGBT propaganda”. This article will include live ...

International Criminal Court building in The Hague. Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons The Moscow City Court has announced the sentencing of eight judges and the prosecutor of the ...

For the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine, Mediazona and Meduza jointly release the second part of our investigation into Russian casualties. Using a method we developed six months ago, we ...

In March alone, garrison and district courts in Russia carried out nearly 700 sentences in cases of “absence without leave” (Article 337 of the Criminal Code), Mediazona research shows. The number of ...

In 2024, Russian military prosecuted far more of its own soldiers for refusing to fight in Ukraine than it did the previous year. According to data collected by Mediazona, judges handled 10,308 cases ...