A law supposedly passed to protect Russia from extremism has since day one been used to silence dissent

A special project about how the Kremlin has forbidden families of soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine to mourn

The GDP of Armenia, Georgia, and other states is rising more quickly due to an influx of Russian migrants. We explain the ‘relocation effect’ and its downsides

This year has seen a record number of ‘LGBT propaganda’ cases filed in Russia. What does the new law mean and who does it target?

Russia’s army claims to have ‘destroyed’ all of Ukraine’s military hardware six months ago. We try to make sense of their triumphant calculations

Russian civilians will have to take cover from nuclear war in bars and beauty salons, seeing as many bomb shelters have been converted into businesses