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A LGBT rights activist asserts that homophobic groups from Russia are still persecuting her in exile in Lithuania.

Author Maria Galina declined to accept the 2025 Dar Literary Prize, sparking debate over engagement with Russian-language literature in wartime. 

Karolina Pavlova struggled to find literary acclaim as a woman in the 19th century, but her work endures.

Russia and Belarus celebrate a record year for trade between them in 2024. No surprise there.

Russian soldiers seek prison to avoid combat, say lawyers and rights defenders.

Russia has passed a law prohibiting inscriptions in foreign languages in signs and billboards.

Russians are spending an increasing amount of time on domestic social media.

State-backed NGOs replace independent environmental voices in the Arctic.

The Duma has approved the creation of a national messenger app to digitize the government and collect data on its citizens' chats.

Vladimir Mayakovsky sports a complicated legacy a nearly a century after Joseph Stalin immortalized him as the defining poet of the Soviet epoch.

Russian leadership has approved a new plan for cultural policy through 2027.

In a remote Siberian village, a single student keeps the school from closing.