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Jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza has been transferred to a new prison facility with considerably harsher conditions, Novaya Gazeta reported on Tuesday....

Russian troops have been regularly attacking not only military targets, but also civilian ones such as museums, monuments, and churches....

Nikolay Patrushev is widely credited with being a Kremlin ideologue whose Russian World sympathies led directly to the invasion of Ukraine. A St. Petersburg native like Vladimir Putin, he was at one point the Russian president’s patron and the man responsible for bringing Putin to Moscow in the late 1990s....

Russia’s judicial statistics for the first half of this year neatly reflect life under the country’s military dictatorship in the second year of the war in Ukraine.

Ethnic Chechen and Russian citizen Ali Batayev has now spent a whole year in a Swiss jail, for two months of which was on hunger strike. Swiss human rights activists have, along with his wife, appealed to every possible institution in the country, explaining how dangerous it would be for Batayev to return....

Olga Nazarenko, a 48-year-old teacher, was rushed to hospital after being found seriously injured in the early hours of 7 October. Despite the efforts of her doctors, she never regained consciousness and died last week after a two-week battle to save her life. The cause of her injuries remains unclear....

The temperature currently drops to zero at night here, and volunteers have been working hard to prevent people from freezing. “People waiting to cross the border need shelter, hot food and drinks and somewhere to sleep for a few hours at least,” says Nadin, a volunteer....

Some 45% of Russians say that their salary doesn’t cover the cost of basic necessities, Russian business newspaper RBC reported on Monday, citing a survey conducted by the biggest Russian online job hunting platform hh.ru....

Alsu Kurmasheva has both Russian and US citizenship and is a resident of Czechia. In late May, she returned to Russia for a family emergency and was detained on 2 June just as she was about to board her flight back to Prague....

This is far from the first time the Russian authorities have targeted lawyers representing critics of the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin’s 23 years in office are littered with examples of official harassment of lawyers, though that pressure has certainly grown over the years.

The 50-year old municipal deputy in Moscow’s Timiryazevsky district, who is jlintly responsible in local urban planning, housing and infrastructure improvements, says that reason why she also refuses to flee the country despite het anti-war stance is that a politician should remain close to her supporters in order to...

When asked by residents about the poor quality of equipment for Russian draftees sent to the war, Natalya Komarova, governor of the Khanty-Mansi region in northern Russia, said that “I am a governor and not the defence minister.”...

Svetlana Drugoveyko-Dolzhanskaya, a philologist who provided expert testimony supporting Sasha Skochilenko, a jailed artist who is currently under investigation for replacing supermarket price tags with anti-war statements, has been fired from her teaching position at St. Petersburg State University....

On 26 September, the website of the South Russian diocese published a sermon titled “The Cult of War” and signed by the priest Victor Pivovarov’s assistant. The text denounces the “worship of the god of war” and professes the cult of war to be an integral part of “all totalitarian anti-human regimes” as well as of...

Sasha Skochilenko, who was detained for disguising anti-war messages as supermarket price tags during the early days of the war, suffers from celiac disease, a heart defect and PTSD, is seeing her health swiftly deteriorate after spending a year and a half in a pre-trial detention centre where she is sometimes denied prescribed...