Whether a 14- year-old protester or an anti-war artist, anyone deemed critical of Putin's regime can be locked up for years ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Russia is not a normal country. That's the obvious and inescapable conclusion one comes to after considering everything from the country's ...

Alexei Navalny’s sacrifice for democracy is being recognized in the place where the concept of government by the people first flourished. Greece’s Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival ...

When acid was thrown in face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet nearly three years ago, it was more than just a brutal attack on a high-profile figure. It was a reflection of Russian ...

IN JULY 2021 Vladimir Putin published an essay with arguments he would later use to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It raced through 1,000 years of history to argue that Russians and Ukrainians ...

A new book written by Russian-American writer Julia Ioffe confronts the forgotten narratives of the women who stood alongside some of Russia’s most well-known male leaders. Ioffe joins Michel Martin ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it threw the entire country into chaos. Missiles fell on Ukrainian cities and Russian soldiers ...