A mother of seven is facing charges of treason in the Russian town of Vyazma. Her alleged crime? Phoning the Ukrainian embassy to warn about Russian troop movements.
Southern Siberia is dying: farms are failing, the forests have been felled, and the people are leaving – a vast area has been failed by its government.
The closure of Tomsk’s TV-2 is a reminder of what has happened to regional media in Russia.
The Samara region has one of the highest numbers of media outlets in Russia, but local journalists find it hard to write the truth.
As the rouble collapses, residents of Tomsk have long memories — from Black Tuesday 1994 to Black Tuesday 2014.
Chechen women have to be very careful about what they wear because of Ramzan Kadyrov’s ‘virtue campaign.’
Власти Самары признали религиозную организацию «Свидетели Иеговы» экстремистской. Теперь её сторонники превратились в религиозных диссидентов. In English
Власти Самары признали религиозную организацию «Свидетели Иеговы» экстремистской. Теперь её сторонники превратились в религиозных диссидентов. In English
The branding of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Samara as an extremist organisation has turned them into religious dissidents. на русском языке
President Putin’s special envoy to the Urals, recently praised the region’s farmers for their heroic efforts to save the harvest. But it won’t save them.
The drug of choice for young people in Russia has the innocent name ‘Spice,’ but its effects can be fatal.
Could it really be that Chief Rabbi of the Omsk Region, Israeli-born Asher Krichevsky, is an Israeli spy? На русском языке