North.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
The former leader of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in St. Petersburg says she has been ordered to pay 3.9 million rubles to police to compensate city law enforcement for costs related to the dispersal of unsanctioned rallies against Navalny’s arrest in January 2021
A court in the Russian city of St. Peterburg has sent journalist Maria Ponomarenko to pretrial detention after she was charged with spreading fake news about the Russian military.
A homemade body bag in Ukraine's blue-and-yellow colors in Novgorod. A Ukrainian flag hanging on a balcony in Tomsk. Protesting the war in Russia could mean fines, jail, or prison. "The risks are…small compared to the chance to clear one's conscience at least a bit," one protester said.
A court in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, has sent artist Aleksandra Skochilenko to pretrial detention for using price tags in a city store to distribute information about Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
A popular Russian political cartoonist and satirist has left Russia amid the ongoing crackdown on media and civil society over coverage of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Across Russia, schoolchildren and preschoolers are participating in various demonstrations in support of the country’s war in Ukraine. Schools, local administrations, and the ruling United Russia party are posting photos of the children on social media in an apparently coordinated effort.
As more coffins and death notices come home, the brutal reality of Moscow's six-week war in Ukraine begins to hit regular families.
A historian and local head of the Memorial human rights group in Russia's northwestern Karelia region has been sent to an unspecified prison in Mordovia -- an area historically associated with some of Russia's more brutal prisons, including Soviet-era labor camps for political prisoners.
Four media outlets blocked in Russia for their coverage of Moscow’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine have filed lawsuits against media regulator Roskomnadzor and the Prosecutor-General’s Office.
A court in Russia has reinstated the prison sentence of an associate of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, reversing an appeal court decision that ordered a retrial of Andrei Borovikov for “distributing pornography” by sharing a video by the German rock band Rammstein.
Russian opposition activist Ivan Luzin has left Russia after serving a 25-day jail term over an anti-war rally he did not take part in.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February, most national independent media have been shuttered or blocked by the Kremlin. Draconian censorship laws have been hastily enacted. Across the country, non-state local media fight to survive and serve their readers under the new conditions.
RFE/RL President Jamie Fly has condemned legal attacks on journalists associated with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Russia, vowing that the “systematic harassment” will not stop the news organization from covering events in the country.
Ukraine's president has compared the Russian assault on Mariupol to the WWII-era Nazi siege of Leningrad, a 900-day nightmare that left some 900,000 civilians dead. Few people are alive now who experienced the horrors of those times, but three who did have spoken out against the Russian invasion.
A freelance journalist who formerly worked with RFE/RL's North.Realities in the city of Kaliningrad has been summoned to the prosecutor's office over her online articles.
Police in Russia's northwestern city of Pskov have searched the homes of several politicians, activists, and journalists as part of a probe related to criticism of the regional governor's announcement of the deaths of soldiers from the area during the war against Ukraine.
Despite heavy shelling of the predominantly Russian-speaking city of Kharkiv, it is still under Ukrainian control. Though many people have fled the city, those who have stayed describe increasingly grim conditions that are difficult to escape.
Russia says Portugal has extradited Stepan Furman, a notorious criminal figure, to Moscow for being a "thief-in-law," the highest title in the criminal world's hierarchy in the former Soviet Union.
A key prosecution witness who refused to testify against jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny in an ongoing trial has left Russia.
A court in Russia's northwestern region of Novgorod has fined a pensioner for an "insulting" social media post because a person in the picture "looked like" President Vladimir Putin, the latest example of Moscow's harsh crackdown on dissent.
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