The theater director and playwright have been in pre-trial detention for over a year on charges of "justifying terrorism." Now they've been sentenced.

Russian authorities are preparing bills to ban the "extremist ideology" about being child-free. 

The State Duma has banned Russian deputies and senators from traveling abroad without permission.

Roskomnadzor ordered the App Store to ban four VPN services. So how will Russians evade internet restrictions?

Russia is now recruiting criminal suspects into the military.

Now that Fulbright has been declared an "undesirable organization," what will happen with its current and former Russian researchers?

Individuals involved in political cases are now five times more likely to be sent to psychiatric hospitals for compulsory treatment.

A teacher of high-school language and literature has resigned after being denounced by a colleague.

The trial of Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk has been postponed yet again. 

Russia is locking up political prisoners at an astonishing rate. Mail is helping them survive.

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

Forgeries of ID documents have risen sharply over the past few years.