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 ...

Vyacheslav Khasanov opened the first Pose bar in Ufa, Bashkortostan, in mid-2020, and a second one under the same name appeared in Orenburg a year later. Both were positioned not as gay clubs, but as ...

More than three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, military courts across the country have registered over 20,000 criminal cases against soldiers accused of refusing to serve, ...

Russia’s State Duma has advanced new legislation that would introduce fines for searching prohibited material online, including when using VPNs. Until now, even amid sweeping crackdowns on internet ...

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 ...