Dmitry Kozhurin is a correspondent for Current Time, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
Managers were arrested and the heating plant taken into state ownership after a breakdown left 22,000 people freezing in their homes near Moscow.
Children from occupied areas of Ukraine were taken to a camp in Chechnya for "military-patriotic" training in November, according to Russian officials. The children were described as "socially troubled" and designated for "reeducation."
A Belarusian father and son have evaded 24/7 surveillance to flee their country after spending almost two years at the Swedish Embassy in Minsk, where they were living to avoid arrest after demonstrating against a presidential election widely seen as falsified.
The Kremlin has claimed its war on Ukraine is aimed at “de-Nazifying” the country. What about the neo-Nazi groups actively fighting on the Russian side?
Amidst the pomp of Russia’s uber-patriotic state ceremonies commemorating the Soviet contribution to victory in World War II, more than 100 people across the country were detained for using the occasion to take a stand against the invasion of Ukraine.
