Claire Bigg covers Russia, Ukraine, and the post-Soviet world, with a focus on human rights, civil society, and social issues.
Ukrainian bloggers are using social networks to track down alleged Russian soldiers fighting alongside separatist rebels in Ukraine's east. They say they are building a damning case against Russia.
Students at a prestigious Moscow university angrily disrupted a lecture by Nikolai Starikov, the leader of a pro-Kremlin group that has backed separatist militants in eastern Ukraine.
Members of the Muslim Crimean Tatar minority say the enterprises that bring them their livelihood have become targets in a persistent clampdown since Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014.
Outrage is mounting over pictures showing portraits of World War II veterans dumped on the ground after Russia held a massive memorial event to mark Victory Day.
A young Russian filmmaker who fought alongside government forces in eastern Ukraine is being granted Ukrainian citizenship after an emotional appeal to the country's president. He says Russians fighting for Ukraine are in an impossible legal quandary.
Russia is scrambling to get rid of swastikas and other Nazi symbols ahead of Victory Day celebrations. But has it going too far?
A Russian businessman who spent six months alongside insurgents in eastern Ukraine returns with tales of looting, drinking, and murder.
Two Russian pensioners have complained separately to President Vladimir Putin about material hardship. The answers they received were poles apart.
A string of satirical musical clips mocking Russia's support for separatists in eastern Ukraine has gone viral on YouTube.
A political scandal is mounting over the grave of a Soviet military commander in central Kyiv, amid claims Ukraine plans to demolish the monument and cremate his body.
Two Russian film directors known for their close Kremlin ties want to launch a patriotic alternative to Western fast-food joints. President Vladimir Putin has reportedly backed the initiative.
Shchastya lies a few kilometers from the rebel-held city of Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine. Shchastya means "happiness" in Ukrainian. But in this war-ravaged town, there's not much cause for rejoicing.
A former high-ranking KGB officer is accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of falsifying his rank in the spy agency and using dirty tricks to derail a probe into sweeping Kremlin corruption.
The director of a Ukrainian choir in Russia has had her life turned upside down since the crisis erupted in Ukraine.
A relative of Boris Nemtsov is accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering the opposition politician's murder and says a coarse insult could have served as motive.
Birch water has hit Western shelves and is being touted as "the next big thing" with America's health-conscious crowd. But in Belarus, a major supplier, birch water is anything but glamorous.
Ukrainian students have released an emotional video calling on their Russian counterparts not to believe what Russia's state-controlled media are saying about their country.
The widow and son of Aleksandr Litvinenko, the former KGB officer poisoned in 2006, believe the public inquiry that started in London will solve his killing and bring them a sense of closure.
Maksim Frank-Kamenetsky, a Soviet-born biophysicist who lives in Boston, recently spent four months in his homeland. What he saw in Russia prompted him to sound the alarm in an open letter to Russians.
A lawyer for Nadia Savchenko, the Ukrainian pilot held in Russia on charges of complicity in the murder of two journalists, say her health is declining. Savchenko has been on hunger strike for more than four weeks.
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