A Russian court on Thursday handed life sentences to four gunmen from Tajikistan, and 11 others it said were their ...

As the war drags into another year, a lesser-known crisis afflicts troops on both sides.

Two years after the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, new claims about how he died are intensifying an ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. On February 14, five European countries acknowledged that the death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was caused by a neurotoxin. Yet for decades, Russia has carried out toxic ...

Rumours swirl that Putin fears a coup by Sergei Shoigu's clan as internet outages hit central Moscow amid arrests of the ex-defence chief's allies.

Vladimir Putin is said to be facing a coup as mobile phones and messengers have been blocked for days in central Moscow, allegedly to try and thwart plotters ...

Sámi activist Valentina Sovkina, originally from the village of Lovozero in Russia’s Murmansk region, was forced to leave the country after a wave of searches targeting indigenous rights activists.

Vladimir Putin is reportedly facing a coup as 'chaos' erupts across Moscow, with internet communications blocked in the centre of the Russian capital amid an unconfirmed theory about a plot from follo ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza warned about threats to press freedom ...

According to Golfo Alexopoulos and new evidence, the essential purpose of the Gulags was violent human exploitation. The system of exploitation during Stalin’s years was unchanging, punitive, and ...