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

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

In July 2025, Russian soldiers took 68-year-old Halyna Bekhter from her home in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region. She was soon convicted of treason: according to ...

Mediazona has identified 20 officers who were killed following a massive missile strike on Donetsk on August 26, 2026. Eighteen of them died that same day, while two succumbed to their injuries later.

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 ...

Moscow’s Perovsky District Court sent prominent Russian political scientist Alexander Kynev to pre-trial detention on large-scale drug charges following an arrest where he was severely beaten. He is ...

Last week, we learned that St. Petersburg resident Vitaly Smidovich had died in Ukraine. The man, who suffered from epileptic seizures, was lured with an offer to repair houses damaged by drones, ...

Lenur Khalilov, the 58-year-old former head of the independent Muslim community “Alushta”—sentenced to 18 years in prison for alleged involvement with Hizb ut-Tahrir—has spent several months in ...

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 ...