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The past year has been another troubling one for the Russian free press.

A journalist working for Russian state television has died from injuries sustained in a drone attack in Ukraine, the network said Thursday....

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A court in St. Petersburg sentenced the 33-year-old artist and musician Alexandra Skochilenko to seven years in prison on charges of spreading “fake news” about the Russian Armed Forces. She replaced six price tags at a supermarket with similar tags that had information about the war, including details about the presence of...

Russia’s annual inflation rate accelerated to 6.7% in October, failing to meet the officially target of 4%, the country’s federal statistics agency said Friday, as a weak currency and surging military spending push prices higher across the economy....

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“I don’t want to live in such a way that fear determines my choices when I have the experience and financial stability to take risks. Our whole society is gripped with fear, and I don’t want that to determine our future. I hope that sooner or later this period in our country’s history will come to an end, and that judges...

For those mentally strong enough to live through the traumas of war and occupation and still resist, the Russians have other methods besides propaganda. The occupying forces do not try to hide their brutal torture chambers, kidnappings of Ukrainian children, and summary executions from their new constituents. Everybody knows the...

According to the Perviy Otdel human rights project, project reports passed by Gubanov and Golubkin to their Dutch colleagues had been examined by three specialized commissions prior to submission. None of these commissions found state secrets in the reports, Perviy Otdel said....

Ovsyannikova fled house arrest in Russia last year with her 11-year-old daughter and currently resides in France. Her 14-year-old son remains with his father Igor Ovsyannikov, who serves as the head of the state-funded broadcaster RT’s Spanish bureau....

Though Russia is warming 2.5 times as fast as the rest of the planet, some of its scientists, RAS members and public figures regularly voice denials of climate science, sowing confusion among the populace....

"This is such a vivid problem, it’s a lot,” Vovchenko said at a roundtable with Russian senators, as quoted by the government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta....

Russia stripped Mark Feygin of his attorney status already in 2018 — after which he fled the country — and labeled him a “foreign agent” in 2022. Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he became one of the most-watched Russian anti-war bloggers with 2 million YouTube subscribers....

The journalist, now living in France, felt unwell when she opened the door to her apartment in the center of Paris and noticed a powdery substance, according to a source close to the investigation who asked not to be named....

Anthropologist Alexandra Arkhipova and her team identified over 5,500 cases where individuals faced prosecution for criticizing the Russian military, many of which were triggered by denunciations. She documented 359 instances of individuals being detained for expressing dissent in schools or churches....

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Experts and activists agree that Russia’s policies and actions towards minorities have long contradicted some of the key principles of the Framework Convention on Minorities....