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. Eighteen of them died that same day, while two succumbed to their injuries later.

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has sent requests to the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, and to several other countries it did not name, asking them to detain 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Photo of Melekhin crossing the U.S. border posted by “Bobr. There and Back Again (An Immigration Diary)”, a Telegram channel A military court in Yekaterinburg has sentenced Leonid Melekhin, an ...

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 ...