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"We hope and pray that you return alive and healthy [and] that you return victorious, having defended the security and independence of our country."

– Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin,
announcing the end to mobilization in the capital.

The Russian military has assured local governments that they don't need to worry about canceling New Years' festivities because of the mobilization and conflict in Ukraine.

Russia filed an official objection against Ukraine's case that Russia committed genocide during its invasion of its neighbor.

Russian politician Dmitry Medvedev dismissed EU Representative Josep Borrell's fear of nuclear war as "paranoid."

Our correspondent was offered a business trip to Odesa, Ukraine. He took it and brought this back.

Conviction of a journalist, regional dissent, and voices raised against the war.

When circumstances force you to leave the country, what do you do with your beloved pets?

A mother in a remote village grapples with past, present, and future losses to war.

A translator with Russian roots ruminates on her past, and what it means to be a Russophile today.

War births poetry. We share five recently created and translated anti-war poems.

We are all daily shaken and unsettled by the fire hose of bad news from Russia and Ukraine, and we all would love “something good, loving, and light from Russia to counterbalance the darkness, the senseless brutality, and the horrors perpetrated by Russian hands in Ukraine.”

Maria Yudina was a profoundly gifted pianist and teacher. And there is a certain lingering myth about her...