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 ...

Russia’s prison system is closed and opaque even where its own citizens are concerned, but Ukrainian prisoners of war find themselves in a position of near-total isolation from the outside world.

For the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine, Mediazona and Meduza jointly release the second part of our investigation into Russian casualties. Using a method we developed six months ago, we ...

In 2024, Russian military prosecuted far more of its own soldiers for refusing to fight in Ukraine than it did the previous year. According to data collected by Mediazona, judges handled 10,308 cases ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...