Russia sharply escalated its crackdown on dissent after invading Ukraine in 2022, so opposition-minded Russians have turned ...

Opposition-minded Russians who remain in the country are trying to keep politically active in whatever causes they can, ...

The Motherland author talks about reclaiming Russia’s women, the “demented family heirlooms” of Soviet trauma, and the ...

From Russian Duma dissident to Ukrainian defender, Ilya Ponomarev confronts Putin’s regime and calls out the West’s role in ...

On the rest of Europe he soon imposed a grimmer fate: the Great Northern war, which embroiled bits of Scandinavia and the ...

Many Russian dissidents claim to embrace liberal values while fully subscribing to a racist view of the world.

"We have once again won a victory over Putin and the Kremlin's propaganda", enthused the Vice-President of the European Parliament, Italy's Pina Picerno. The cancellation follows a similar measure, in ...

Maria Alyokhina reveals the conditions she endured in one of the remote penal colonies where opponents of Vladimir Putin face ...

Russian bookseller Lyubov Belyatskaya sighed as she lamented the "climate of widespread anxiety" that has taken hold in her ...

The Kremlin’s never-ending list of so-called extremists and terrorists now includes 19,131 people and 823 organisations.

Mark, a 30-year-old Ukrainian soldier, plays the horn on the street during his vacation, in Kyiv, on November 17, 2025, amid ...

In the 10 months since Donald Trump returned to the presidency, U.S. federal immigration agents have begun carrying out frequent raids of American cities in search of people to deport. Twice over the ...