Open-pit mining continues while locals face both unemployment and worsening pollution.

A Russian official threatens flower-pickers with up to 15 days in jail.

The Russian federal government will take on debt from 16 regions.

In 2026, a record number of Russian regions reduced healthcare spending amid the war in Ukraine.

United Russia gifted groceries to elderly women, female volunteers, and widows of soldiers who died in Ukraine to celebrate International Women's Day.

Leonid Arkadyevich Zemsky, a literary scholar, dreamed of visiting the countryside in winter and going on a real Russian hunt.

Residents of one town are taking to the streets and writing letters to Putin, trying to keep pregnant women from having to travel to big cities to give birth.

Data show Russia's war deaths are concentrated in regions with higher poverty rates.

Residents of one town are taking to the streets and writing letters to Putin, trying to keep pregnant women from having to travel to big cities to give birth.

Thousands of Russian freight transport companies are facing liquidation or bankruptcy amid rising costs, falling demand, and tightening financial conditions. 

Behind its Potemkin façade of stability, the Russian economy faces some real threats in 2026.

A court fined a bookstore chain for novels that contained "sexual anarchism."