Opposition politician Ilya Yashin was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for posting a video about Russian crimes in Bucha.

A student in Karelia was reportedly disciplined for wearing a sweatshirt with an American flag on it.

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.”

Patriarch Kirill says that Russians can fast-track their way to heaven by fighting in Ukraine.

The State Duma is considering a bill to outlaw "child-free" ideology.

Belarus's Supreme Court has ruled that a group of former law enforcement officers who support opposition politicians is a terrorist group.

Due to scheduling conflicts, Putin was not able to attend Gorbachev's funeral.

A Moscow political candidate was arrested after a woman discovered a Pro-Navalny post on his Twitter from five years ago.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the Communist Party Leader who unleashed democracy, glasnost, and perestroika, has died.

The governor of Samara Oblast enlisted the help of students to create a 200-foot-long Russian tricolor out of painted stones for Russian Flag Day.

A working group of the Russian State Duma has compiled a list of cultural figures who have denounced the war in Ukraine. They can either "repent" or quit their jobs.

Approximately 138,000 websites have been taken down or banned in Russia since the start of the invasion of Ukraine.