A journalist is convicted for telling the truth, and emigrés offer some poignant vignettes.

We inaugurate a series in which we ask those who fled Russia in the wake of Russia’s War on Ukraine to offer telling short stories or vignettes about their new life abroad.

A poetic last word, a med student with guts, and a Trinity that wants for a home.

Navalny's last word, history's continued revision, and a foreign correspondent's perspective

More poignant and brave “last words” of dissenters, and a look at one popular place (again) of exile.

Some poignant and brave “last words” of dissenters, and some notes about the resurgence of denunciations.

Conviction of a journalist, regional dissent, and voices raised against the war.

Young Russians speak out on the effects of the war.

The outcomes of political trials in Russia are mostly preordained, but activists have learned to use them as a way to speak out.

As a famous Russian writer recounts, many Russians are pretending that nothing is happening. They’re trying not to discuss what’s going on just a four-hour train ride to Hell away.

News, states, quotes and notes from around Russia.

A comparison of Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014 vs. the invasion of all of Ukraine in 2022 (written two weeks prior to the invasion)