A massive oil spill in the Kerch Strait has polluted miles of shoreline in Russia’s Krasnodar Oblast, killing birds and dolphins.

A Russian island in the Arctic disappeared from satellite images.

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill will send letters to pregnant women in 16 regions to dissuade them from receiving abortion care.

Russian authorities have sharply increased the budget for the Federal Penitentiary Service, despite previous plans to cut it.

Russians are flocking to the Far East in growing numbers.

The Russian state has given more than five billion rubles, or $56 million, to some 35,000 residents in Kursk who have lost property due to Ukraine's counterattack on Russian soil.

Russian anxieties about the war are increasing in response to Ukraine's offensive into the Kursk region. 

The village of Putino always turns out to vote for Putin. But now even this town has started to call for an end to war.

More Russian teenagers are going to fight in Ukraine as soon as they turn 18.

Authorities spent ten times more money on barrage shelters in Moscow and the Moscow Oblast than in regions bordering Ukraine.

A man painted "No to War" on his car and his roof in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, but was investigated for "terrorism."

Sirens and warnings of shelling are daily occurrences in regions that border Ukraine.