In this video, we explore life in Kemerovo, Siberia, reflecting on the significant changes that have occurred since 2025. The journey serves as a challenging return to my hometown after the loss of my ...

When Russians look back at 2025, they might remember it as the year when the government took even tighter control of the ...

Two years ago, Derek and DeAnna Huffman were desperate to leave Humble, a suburb of Houston. Their three daughters, they believed, were being brainwashed by public school and mainstream media to ...

Five years ago this week, the leader of the Russian opposition movement, Alexei Navalny, was poisoned with a nerve agent developed by a secret lab in Moscow. Although he survived and recovered in ...

Two weeks ago we noted that Russia was facing gasoline shortages dues to repeated drone strikes on Russian refineries. The problems, starting with outlying regions and occupied Crimea, have worsened ...

Maria Alyokhina reveals the conditions she endured in one of the remote penal colonies where opponents of Vladimir Putin face potential torture ...

Russia’s economy has proven remarkably resilient, despite years of sanctions and economic statecraft. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t deep cracks in Russia’s unstable economic foundation, with only ...

White House officials have confirmed that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet as early as next week to discuss the war in Ukraine. It would be the first U.S.-Russia summit ...

Stefan Wolff is a past recipient of grant funding from the Natural Environment Research Council of the UK, the United States Institute of Peace, the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK, the ...