Dmitry Kozhurin is a correspondent for Current Time, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
A Russian musician who opposed the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine plunged to his death from his 10th-story apartment during a police raid reportedly linked to his support for Kyiv. Those who knew him doubt he would take his own life.
Managers were arrested and the heating plant taken into state ownership after a breakdown left 22,000 people freezing in their homes near Moscow.
Children from occupied areas of Ukraine were taken to a camp in Chechnya for "military-patriotic" training in November, according to Russian officials. The children were described as "socially troubled" and designated for "reeducation."
A Belarusian father and son have evaded 24/7 surveillance to flee their country after spending almost two years at the Swedish Embassy in Minsk, where they were living to avoid arrest after demonstrating against a presidential election widely seen as falsified.
The Kremlin has claimed its war on Ukraine is aimed at “de-Nazifying” the country. What about the neo-Nazi groups actively fighting on the Russian side?
Amidst the pomp of Russia’s uber-patriotic state ceremonies commemorating the Soviet contribution to victory in World War II, more than 100 people across the country were detained for using the occasion to take a stand against the invasion of Ukraine.
