Russian authorities are targeting lawyers who left the country but continue to defend from abroad, raising fears for the profession's independence.

A growing number of landowners are at risk of having their dachas confiscated, just in time for the summer. 

On the dangerous growth of Russia's debt collection agencies.

Two elderly physicists have been jailed in Russia for mysterious reasons. 

A Buryat woman was attacked on a Moscow bus for speaking "her language." According to the victim, she was speaking Russian.

How one Ukrainian refugee family has been hindered in trying to live as Russians.

A new federal law introduced on March 1 might change the way books, including classic Russian titles, are distributed.

A Russian official threatens flower-pickers with up to 15 days in jail.

Two criminal cases are active for “insulting” images of the Russian Easter cake on social media.

In Russia, censored pages are sparking underground libraries, secret book clubs, and quiet acts of literary resistance.

A Bryansk man was convicted of financing terrorism for transferring cryptocurrency to a banned Russian political organization.

At least three Russian men have been nabbed by police while intoxicated, only to realize after sobering up that they'd been enlisted.