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

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 ...

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 ...

Judge Victoria Malyamova of the Pskov City Court in western Russia has sentenced Lev Shlosberg, a prominent opposition figure and a deputy chairman of the liberal Yabloko party, to 11 years and 1 ...

The restrictions and bans would apply to anyone who has left Russia and has a criminal conviction under any article of the Criminal Code. A conviction that has entered into legal force would serve as ...

In European Russia, the surge in reviews is clearly visible immediately after the June 18 drone strike on the refinery in Kapotnya, a district in Moscow’s southeast. In other regions, comments about ...

Cloudpayments, an online payment processor, has cut off donations to Mediazona from Russian bank cards—abruptly and without any explanation. As an independent Russian news outlet, we always knew this ...

Our methodology draws on data from the Probate Registry—a publicly accessible Russian database of inheritance cases—and the recorded names count we maintain together with BBC News Russian and a team ...

2025 was a record year for the number of ACF donor cases reaching the courts, and the pace of prosecutions has not slowed this year. Here is what we know about the state of the crackdown as of today.