The curious case of self-taught Russian geologist and archaeologist Andrey Veryanov sentenced to 24 years for treason

How Volgograd residents whose relatives were killed in Stalin’s purges feel about the dictator’s return to official favour

A neopagan Stalinist who hates abortion and Hollywood — meet Russia’s most controversial governor

Alexey Navalny’s lawyer addresses the ‘extremism’ verdict against her colleagues and talks collegiate solidarity

MSF has been forced to end its work in Russia after over 30 years of helping some of its most vulnerable citizens survive

The children of Russia’s pro-war elites are rarely to be found on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine

A Soviet dissident who spent years in solitary confinement on how political prisoners are punished in contemporary Russia

As treason cases at the highest level of Russian science pile up, is Kremlin-sanctioned spy mania out of control?

The killing of her husband has led the previously disinclined Yulia Navalnaya to step into the political limelight

How Russia’s criminal justice system has been weaponised as part of the country’s war effort

Three lawyers representing jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny were arrested in Moscow last week in what appears to have been a warning against defending political prisoners

Who are the judges imposing decades-long jail sentences on anyone criticising Putin’s war in Ukraine?

The top judge has backed all of the Kremlin’s initiatives over the past 20 years

Russian defence minister Shoigu started his political career during one coup and received the fatal blow during another one

Having spent a year in prison, Ilya Yashin meets his 40th birthday and explains why a Russian politician cannot be an emigrant