Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, almost all independent media has been banned or blocked, and journalists are frequently imprisoned over trumped-up charges ...

Alexei Navalny, a prominent Russian opposition leader, was arrested following his brave return to Russia in 2021. He had been evacuated to Germany for emergency medical treatment after being poisoned.

Russia's new "Global Fact-Checking Network" claims to fight fake news— but experts criticise it as propaganda in fact-checking clothes. In early April, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs unveiled ...

The Russian Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN) claims it verifies facts, but in reality, this website — created and run by ...

Ukraine’s wartime television landscape has centered around the state-funded Telemarathon, drawing praise for unity and criticism for lacking media pluralism, transparency, and objectivity. This raises ...

The most popular foreign playwright in Russia is London-born Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. He is known in the US as the ...

By 2004, Putin was accusing the West of supporting militants in the Caucasus, and his pressure on independent media, suppression of dissent, and rollback of rights and democracy were raising ...

Freed Russian prisoners, from left, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Andrei Pivovarov and Ilya Yashin speak at a press conference in Bonn, Germany, on Aug. 2, 2024, a day after they were released as part of a ...

The release of targeted journalist Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal and 15 others politically imprisoned in Russia is cause for relief and rejoicing. Eight prisoners held in the West, ...

The release of targeted journalist Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal and 15 others politically imprisoned in Russia is cause for relief and rejoicing. Eight prisoners held in the West ...