Mediazona has identified 20 officers who were killed following a massive missile strike on Donetsk on August 26, 2026.

Russian scientists and university lecturers are increasingly being prosecuted for “financing extremism” over small donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF, known also for ...

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has handed down sentences to four defendants in a case involving a ...

International Criminal Court building in The Hague. Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has sent requests to the Dutch Ministry of Justice and ...

Russian asylum seekers, some held without charge for more than two years, are among dozens of detainees on hunger strike at a privately-run immigration jail in the U.S. state of Georgia. A report ...

Russian authorities have dropped the criminal case alleging the spread of “fake news about the army” against Lida Moniava, the prominent director of the Lighthouse (“Dom s Mayakom”) children’s hospice ...

In August, Mediazona broke the story of Oleg Varyukhin, the man charged with treason in Russia for paying mandatory taxes as a small business owner in Ukraine. Now, his estranged daughter, who fled ...

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 ...

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 ...