Russians are bracing for an economic recession that could be the deepest since the 1990s after the United States and its allies imposed ‘crushing’ sanctions on Moscow, seeking to punish President Vladimir Putin for the unprovoked invasion from Ukraine. Analysts say citizens face a future characterized by runaway inflation, risingRead More →
Separately, the Federal Prison Service demanded that Navalny’s brother’s suspended sentence be turned into a prison sentence. Russian authorities have added imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny and a handful of his allies to an official list of “terrorists and extremists”. Also on Tuesday, local news agencies reported that the FederalRead More →
Three of five associates of imprisoned Russian opponent Aleksei Navalny who were arrested by police in raids across the country on December 28 have been freed. The five former directors of the headquarters of Navalny’s network of regional campaign groups have been arrested and questioned for possibly abusing their officialRead More →
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that one of the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights organizations must be shut down, a move that sparked public outrage. and is the latest step in a months-long crackdown on human rights activists, independent media and opposition supporters. TheRead More →
TEHRAN – Speaking to reporters at his annual year-end press conference, Russia’s president answered questions on a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues that have dominated Russian headlines over the past last 12 months. High on the agenda are tensions with NATO, which have recently escalated dramatically. VladimirRead More →
Festive illuminations illuminate the central square of the Siberian city of Tomsk. Next to a New Year’s tree, sixteen large ice sculptures decorate the site. The works were created as part of the Crystal Tomsk ice sculpture festival which took place from December 12 to 18. This is the seventhRead More →
Shortly before leaving Russia in a hurry for Georgia, Sergei Samborsky visited the office of the Presidential Commissioner for Human Rights, Tatyana Moskalkova. Tomsk resident Samborsky made headlines last month after posting a shocking video of appalling conditions inside the “red zone” of the Siberian city’s largest COVID-19 hospital. InRead More →
TOMSK, Russia — When Sergei Samborsky learned from a patient at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in this Siberian city that his 84-year-old grandmother, an Alzheimer’s patient being treated in the isolation ward for COVID-19, was not fed or cared for properly, he became desperate. He begged hospital workers to letRead More →
TOMSK, Russia — Seven local lawmakers in the Siberian city of Tomsk have asked Russia’s Investigative Committee to launch an investigation into the August nerve agent poisoning of Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny. City lawmakers said in a formal letter to the investigating committee that they were concerned about theRead More →