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 ...

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

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

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has sent requests to the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, and to several other ...

Lida Moniava, the director of the prominent children’s hospice Lighthouse (“Dom s Mayakom”), was detained in Moscow under the charges of spreading “fake news” about the Russian army over a social ...

This week, the websites of major Russian banks—Sber, VTB, Rosselkhozbank, T-Bank, Uralsib, Promsvyazbank and Bank Saint Petersburg—began serving TLS certificates issued by Russia’s Ministry of Digital ...

Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, has emerged as a novel target of Ukraine’s expanding long-range drone campaign, with strikes hitting the company’s warehouses in at least eight regions, ...

The Zheleznogorsk city court in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia has fined Tatyana Nikiforova, a former local journalist, 10,000 roubles, or about $125, under the administrative article punishing ...

In European Russia, the surge in reviews is clearly visible immediately after the June 18 drone strike on the refinery in Kapotnya, a district in Moscow’s southeast. In other regions, comments about ...