Are Western brands really preparing to re-enter the Russian market as soon as the war ends?

Can conditions for ending the war in Ukraine be found to satisfy both sides?

The rise and rise of Alexander Khinshtein, the newly appointed Kursk region governor

How Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers continues to breach sanctions and earn the Kremlin billions

The Russian authorities are revisiting thousands of post-Soviet rehabilitation orders to align them with statist policy

Why did the largest Russian-language fanfiction site make its same-sex stories inaccessible?

A popular role-playing game has been forced out of Russia after refusing to pull its LGBT content

A Russian soldier told his mother he’d been tortured by military police. A month later he was found hanged.

Analysts explain the significance of Sergey Shoigu’s surprise move from the Defence Ministry to the Security Council

Popular anger at the failed government response to the catastrophic flooding in the Urals is unable to find an outlet

Russia’s state-sponsored Wikipedia alternative seeks to prove that ignorance is strength

Former prisoners describe the brutal conditions of a Russian punishment cell

How an alleged comment during a consultation led to unimaginable consequences for one Moscow doctor

Russian stars who attended the ‘Almost Naked’ party in Moscow last week are now attempting to outdo each other in asking the public for forgiveness

Long queues have formed at the only border crossing from Russia into Ukraine, forcing some people to spend the night in the cold, while others attempt to profit from the situation

Street dogs have mauled a child to death in Russia’s Orenburg. The authorities are now seeking to greenlight homeless animal murders