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How Kremlin-backed super-app MAX is gradually being made obligatory in Russian schools

Washington’s new national security strategy adds to Ukraine’s woes and exacerbates Europe’s dilemmas

The killer of Novaya Gazeta’s Anastasia Baburova has been freed into a country that’s more aligned with her worldview than ever

No amount of external pressure can force peace on two parties with fundamentally incompatible objectives

Described as torture by the UN, gay conversion therapy is nevertheless thriving in contemporary Russia

How realistic are Putin’s threats to impose a naval blockade on Ukraine?

The US president is entrusting inexperienced loyalists with complex foreign policy issues, and it shows

How Belarusian political prisoners are being forced to support the Russian war effort in Ukraine

The Kremlin is taking aim at Russia’s sole remaining legal opposition movement

A corruption investigation into Zelensky’s inner circle shows Kyiv is on the right path

A new pro-Kremlin bloc is taking shape in the European Parliament

The widow of the first person to die at Chernobyl was killed by a Russian drone strike on her home earlier this month

Director Alexander Molochnikov talks about Extremist, his short film about former political prisoner Sasha Skochilenko

As Russian provocations intensify, the Baltic states are focusing on long-term border defence plans

As Europe debates how to keep funds flowing to Ukraine, the outlook on the battlefield is grim

Activist Zhanna Nemtsova on why depriving small-time Russian investors of their assets in the West won’t help undermine Putin

As Georgia’s slide into autocracy continues, Europe appears to be losing faith it can reverse the process

The European Union cannot afford the war in Ukraine to end in a settlement from which it is excluded

Life in the Estonian border villages just metres from Russia

Serhiy Petrik, a paediatrician from occupied Donbas, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for ‘espionage’

A resumption of weapons testing by the US would be extremely dangerous for humanity

Patriotism, TikTok and the new Pioneers: why school-age Russians are joining pro-Kremlin youth organisations

A remote village in Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains has become a pit stop for military-aged men escaping to Romania

How Kyiv is preparing for another difficult winter amid massive Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure

Donald Trump’s transactional approach to redrawing Ukraine’s borders is an affront to Ukrainian national identity

The story of Aishat Baymuradova, a Chechen woman who fled violence at home only to be killed in Armenia

Mikhail Piotrovsky’s journey as director of the Hermitage has taken him from liberal innovator to pro-war imperialist

Why the Russian authorities are increasingly cracking down on opposition both at home and abroad

Inside Russia’s migrant detention centres where Ukrainians can be kept in limbo for months

Will the EU breach its own sanctions to compensate an Austrian bank fined €2 billion in Russia?

Russia’s untenable level of military spending has trapped the country in a Catch-22

Ukraine is beginning to think about memorials, a tricky task during an ongoing war

Russian doctors have been recruited to dissuade underage girls from terminating unwanted pregnancies

What price do queer Russian parents have to pay for their children’s safety at school?

Why Beijing has finally added Russia to the list of 76 countries it already allows visa-free travel

As Trump looks set to abandon Ukraine peace efforts, Europe must step up to face Russian aggression on its own

Russia is turning to African women and conscripted North Koreans to tackle its defence worker shortage

Encouraged by recent summits in Alaska and Beijing, Russia now has its eye on Europe

Who is Roman Alyokhin, the first pro-war blogger to be deemed a ‘foreign agent’ by the Russian authorities?

Ukrainian drone strikes have disabled one sixth of Russia’s oil refining capacity and led to a protracted fuel crisis

The Kremlin is hoping to destigmatise the acquisition of territory through warfare

Why did Belarusian opposition politician Mikalai Statkevich choose a return to brutal imprisonment over exile in Lithuania?

Life in Russia for migrants is hard, but queer migrants have things far, far tougher

More foreign volunteers are needed to bolster Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s war machine

NATO’s tepid response to the flagrant breach of its airspace by Russian drones this week is unlikely to worry Vladimir Putin

Russia’s growing territorial ambitions in Ukraine echo those of Catherine the Great

Was the murder of Ukraine’s former speaker the work of a vengeful lone wolf or a more sinister Russian-ordered hit?

A pillar of Russian independent journalism is facing a funding crisis and urgently requires support

Progress has been made on the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline, but a final deal may still be some way off

Amid warming relations with the Kremlin, are US companies considering a return to the Russian market?

A European plan to create a buffer zone on the frontline in Ukraine is looking increasingly unrealistic

How Russia’s bombing of a bridge in Kherson forced residents to evacuate the city’s island district and what it means for the front line

Despite its carefully choreographed pledges of solidarity, the SCO summit in Tianjin is unlikely to usher in a new world order

Proposed Western ‘security guarantees’ for Ukraine would mean little without boots on the ground

A record-hot summer, a failing utility system, and a key Soviet-era waterway destroyed by war have left Donbas on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe

From autumn onwards, thousands of migrant children in Russia will be left without access to mandatory education

Ukrainian volunteers are trying to find new owners for orphaned animals from frontline regions of the country

Why Malaysia’s Faustian pact with the Kremlin matters

Russia’s obsession with recreating its Soviet past could lead to a repeat of the USSR’s bleak end

Deliberate indifference is being exercised by the Russian authorities against jailed lawyer Maria Bontsler

Five years after the mass protests, political repression in Belarus has reached new heights

Stagflation is hitting Russia’s war economy as sanctions take their toll on economic growth and price stability

Why has North Korea suddenly decided to start courting Russian tourists?

Is there any basis to Russian claims that Ukrainian villages on the frontline are falling like dominoes?

A resident of the Russian town of Sudzha on unexpectedly living under Ukrainian occupation

Nearly 100 senior Russian officials have been charged with corruption so far in 2025 — the highest number in a decade