The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has handed down sentences to four defendants in a case involving a ...

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don is currently hearing an unusual case of an attempted prison mutiny, Mediazona learned. Four vastly different cellmates are on trial: a Ukrainian ...

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has handed down a sentence to 77-year-old Crimean civil activist Volodymyr Ananiev on terrorism charges. According to information obtained by ...

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 ...

Russian scientists and university lecturers are increasingly being prosecuted for “financing extremism” over small donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF, known also for ...

The Moscow City Court has rejected an appeal against the arrest of political scientist Alexander Kynev, who faces large-scale drug distribution charges. Kynev, who was severely beaten during his ...

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 ...

Russian military courts have processed over 700 criminal cases against servicemen since the beginning of mobilisation in September 2022, with charges brought under newly toughened articles. Both ...

What it’s like: to bring coffins with bodies of dead soldiers to their mothers and widows? A Russian officer shares a poignant account of his three-month mission in Zabaikalsky krai, a remote area in ...

Ivan Kudryashov, a 26-year-old former orphanage resident and carriage-building factory worker, has been on a hunger strike for over a month in a Tver detention centre, near Moscow. A committed vegan ...