Ukrainian special forces ‘blow up Russian supply railway’ deep behind enemy lines At least three people were killed in two separate operations by Ukrainian intelligence services The Independent UK · Sep 15, 2025
All of Ukraine’s boldest attacks on Russia: Covert drone strikes, airport sabotage and nuclear plant fires Experts have said that Ukraine has one of the best combat-ready armies in Europe The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2025
Anti-corruption journalists who worked with Navalny convicted of ‘extremism’ in Russia All four maintained innocence and said they were being prosecuted for doing their job as journalists The Independent UK · Apr 16, 2025
Russia convicts four investigative journalists for alleged extremism The closed-door trial was part of a crackdown on dissent that reached an unprecedented scale after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Euronews · Apr 15, 2025
Russian journalists jailed for more than 5 years over alleged Navalny ties Russian court sentences four journalists over alleged ties to former opposition leader’s banned anticorruption group. Al Jazeera · Apr 15, 2025
"Our song about a guy angry after a break-up is really about Putin and the former Soviet republics": The Pet Shop Boys' Russian lament - Neil Tennant talks war and more As one of the biggest Western bands in Russia, and as an ex-Editor himself, Tennant’s new Russian reminiscences make remarkable reading MusicRadar · Mar 16, 2025
Russian University Course on 'Satanic Western Civilization' to Be Taught at School Led by Man Nicknamed 'Putin's Brain' A Russian University will be introducing a "Westernology" course aimed at exploring the "satanic Western civilisation". Latin Times · Oct 23, 2024
Man Lost At Sea After Going Whale Watching Survives 67 Days On Tiny Inflatable Boat 'I have no strength left,' Mikhail Pichugin told the fishing crew that rescued him off Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. International Business Times · Oct 15, 2024
‘Record falsification’: Kremlin critics decry vote won by Russia’s Putin Although Putin’s popularity among most Russians is not in doubt, observers say the recent election was far from fair. Al Jazeera · Mar 20, 2024
Novaya Gazeta Editor Fined For Discrediting Russian Armed Forces Editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta fined for discrediting Russian armed forces, highlighting ongoing media censorship in Russia. Top News · Feb 29, 2024
‘More deaths are coming’: fears over fate of other Russian political prisoners after Navalny’s death Critics of Ukraine war among dozens who may be at risk in penal system, say campaigners and journalists The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2024
‘It’s a torture regime’: the last days of Alexei Navalny The fiercest political opponent of Vladimir Putin understood that he might never leave prison alive The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2024
Russia’s Putin will not go unpunished for Navalny’s death, wife Yulia says The Kremlin critic’s mother also said her son was ‘alive, healthy and happy’ when she saw him this week. Al Jazeera · Feb 16, 2024
Top Kremlin Critic Navalny Dies In Prison The Kremlin's most prominent critic Alexei Navalny died Friday in an Arctic prison, said Russian authorities, announcing his death a month before an election poised to extend Vladimir Putin's hold on power. International Business Times · Feb 16, 2024
The Guardian - AU · Nov 17, 2023 What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis Women’s football under Russian air raids, Ukrainian soldiers’ bridgehead in enemy-held Kherson, and the cinematographers flying deadly drones
The Independent UK · Nov 14, 2023 Russian convicted of Kremlin critic’s murder pardoned after fighting in Ukraine Hundreds of Russian convicts have been released back into civil society after presidential pardons
The Independent UK · Nov 14, 2023 A man convicted in the 2006 killing of a Russian journalist wins a pardon after serving in Ukraine A lawyer for a man convicted in the 2006 killing of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya received a presidential pardon after a stint fighting in Ukraine
France 24 · Nov 2, 2023 'People are resisting': Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko on Ukraine, Putin and being poisoned Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko has survived a poisoning attempt and managed to evade a Chechen hit squad, but the attempts on her life have not dissuaded her from becoming one of Russia's most outspoken dissenters. She has just published her first book, "I Love Russia", which she wrote while in…
The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2023 I Love Russia by Elena Kostyuchenko review – reportage at its best The Novaya Gazeta journalist offers brilliant, immersive bulletins from her homeland but doesn’t explain its return to totalitarian rule
The Conversation · Oct 7, 2023 Nobel peace prize 2023: award for Iranian women's rights protester highlights fight against declining democracy around the world One hundred days after Iranians first protested the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab incorrectly, Narges Mohammadi sat down in her prison cell to write a letter to the country’s women. She promised: “We shall not back down until the moment of victory, meaning the…
Evening Standard · Sep 2, 2023 Russia adds Nobel Prize-winning journalist Dmitry Muratov to list of ‘foreign agents’ Nobel Prize-winning journalist Dmitry Muratov has been declared a “foreign agent” by Russian authorities.
The Independent UK · Sep 1, 2023 Russia declares Nobel-winning editor Dmitry Muratov to be a foreign agent Russian authorities have declared newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov to be a foreign agent, continuing the country’s moves to suppress critics and independent reporting
The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2023 The week in TV: Fisk; The Price of Truth; And Just Like That; Who Is Erin Carter – review Kitty Flanagan is sublime in an Aussie legal comedy, while a journalist risks all in Russia. Plus, the Sex and the City crew wind up another series, and a rather average new thriller
The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2023 Berlin probing ‘attempted murder’ of exiled Russian journalist who fell ill on train in Germany Two other journalists in Prague and Tblisi may form trio of suspected poisonings in European capitals, report claims
The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2023 Nerve agents, poison and window falls. Over the years, Kremlin foes have been attacked or killed Over the years, Kremlin political critics, turncoat spies and journalists have been killed in a variety of ways