Leonid Gozman reacts to his 8½-year prison sentence for two social media posts about the Bucha massacre

The terror unleashed against the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is part of Putin’s ‘peace’ plan

Russians who don’t support the war must steel themselves for a long fight

The Russian state’s use of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany as a propaganda tool amounts to outright theft

Catastrophic recent flooding in Russia’s southern Urals has laid bare the state’s failings

The Kremlin is preparing Russians for a final showdown with the West

Why Vladimir Putin had nothing to say to the people on the eve of his re-election

Leonid Gozman, arrested in absentia this week, muses on those who persecute the innocent

Why the Kremlin’s attempt to weaponise Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview failed

There are significant implications to the groundswell of public support for getting Boris Nadezhdin on the presidential ballot

The Kremlin has opened the political season with an unprecedented borrowing of fascist language

Having disregarded the sixth commandment, the Russian Orthodox Church has now turned on its own clergy

The miserable fate of those in Russia who dare challenge war and dictatorship lays bare the depths to which the country has fallen

How Vladimir Putin’s history hobby threatens to erase entire centuries of Russia’s past

A visit to Moscow last week by a delegation from Hamas should come as no surprise to anyone

In a parallel universe where progress is the enemy, one propagandist rules supreme