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American journalist and editor specializing in Russia and eastern Europe.
An attack by an armed group on a Russian region bordering Ukraine earlier this week has been met with a mixture of shock, anger and indifference, according to six interviews with locals conducted by The Moscow Times.
A Russian deputy minister has died from an unexplained cause several months after he allegedly criticised the Kremlin's offensive on Ukraine as a "fascist invasion" in a private conversation.
A Moscow confectioner fined for making cakes decorated with anti-war slogans said that she plans to keep opposing Russia's invasion of Ukraine despite harassment from pro-war figures and the risk of jail.
As more details emerged of my former colleague's arrest, the more it felt like a bad dream.
President Vladimir Putin vowed to press onward with Russia's war in Ukraine and railed against the West for a litany of wrongdoings in his first state-of-the-nation address since invading Ukraine one year ago.
A Russian journalist has been sentenced to six years in prison for criticising Moscow's deadly attack on Mariupol, the latest punishment in a relentless crackdown on dissent.
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been ordered to spend six months in a designated punishment cell, he said as his supporters expressed growing concern that his life was in danger.
Sergei Surovikin is demoted to act as a deputy for Valery Gerasimov
As a leader apparently on increasingly thin ice, it is perhaps appropriate that President Putin has appeared on the front of his annual calendar playing ice hockey.
Ordinary Russians are unable to access an increasingly broad range of literature as bookshops and libraries pull titles from their shelves amid a wartime crackdown on political dissent and a November law banning LGBT "propaganda."