Lida Moniava, the director of the prominent children’s hospice Lighthouse (“Dom s Mayakom”), was detained in Moscow under the ...

A judge in St Petersburg has fined feminist activist and artist Daria Apakhonchich 150,000 roubles (about $1,740) for ...

Mediazona was able to identify the 27 names of those who died in the military An-26 aircraft crash this spring. The plane, ...

For more than a year, 17 Ukrainian citizens have been living in a basement at a Russian-Georgian border crossing. Russia ...

Major General Sergei Goryachev, chief of staff of the 35th Combined Arms Army, was killed in June 2023 while commanding forces against the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Zaporizhzhia region. In ...

Vyacheslav Khasanov opened the first Pose bar in Ufa, Bashkortostan, in mid-2020, and a second one under the same name appeared in Orenburg a year later. Both were positioned not as gay clubs, but as ...

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court is hearing cases against Apple Distribution International, which faces charges of disseminating materials considered “LGBT propaganda”. This article will include live ...

International Criminal Court building in The Hague. Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons The Moscow City Court has announced the sentencing of eight judges and the prosecutor of the ...

Arkady Dorofeev was a police officer in the 2000s. Then he turned to burglary, was caught, and sentenced to almost four years in prison. In 2022, he joined the infamous Wagner PMC to fight in the war ...

In March alone, garrison and district courts in Russia carried out nearly 700 sentences in cases of “absence without leave” (Article 337 of the Criminal Code), Mediazona research shows. The number of ...