Dmitry Volchek is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Russian Service.
A new Current Time film looks at how many Russian families have been ripped apart by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. “I spoke with each person separately because getting them to speak together didn’t work," filmmaker Andrei Loshak says of the heartrending interviews that form the core of the film.
On September 15, four activists unfurled a banner on Moscow's iconic Red Square calling for President Vladimir Putin to be jailed. Within seconds, security forces had whisked them away. What motivated them to undertake the quixotic protest and what happened to them after they were taken away?
A German journalist who used to work for Russia's state-controlled television channel RT says he was asked by his employer to spy on Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny while he was undergoing treatment in Germany after being poisoned in Siberia.
“At first, when I got there, I didn’t quite believe that it was real at all. I had a kind of culture shock. Orwell described how it works. I thought it was a dystopia, but in fact this is how it works,” a former employee of the Russian “troll factory” told RFE/RL.
Most Russian moviegoers will have to wait to see Outlaw, after the nationwide launch of the homegrown film was hit by last-minute disruptions that will limit its screening to just a handful of theaters.
Vladimir Putin has been the face of Russia for two decades. But many aspects of his early life remain closely held secrets, blogger Artyom Kruglov says -- and for good reason.
When Milena Mebius saw the nasty, pro-Kremlin trolling under the online comments condemning the prison term handed to actor Pavel Ustinov, it was like looking into a mirror. For two years, she herself had been employed inside the opinion-shaping machine of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
Twenty years later, there is no clear answer as to who planned the terrorist attacks in Moscow that claimed more than 300 lives and left 1,500 injured. Despite being used as justification for invading Chechnya, even the official version offers no proof that the Chechen leaders were behind them.
Lyubov Sobol, a driving force of Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, is among the outsiders hoping to break United Russia's monopoly hold over the Moscow city council. But forces tied to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin seem to be pulling out all the stops to derail her.
Russian lawyer Aleksandr Busarov thought that if he asked Vladimir Putin's government to rehabilitate some of the most notorious criminals of Stalin's regime, they'd have to say "no." But he was wrong.
Former Russian state television camera operator Leonid Krivenkov talks about why 10 years working inside Kremlin-controlled news prompted him to toss his TVs.
Two-thirds of the Red Army soldiers captured by the Germans during World War II died in captivity, in part because of a Soviet government policy aimed at convincing soldiers that being captured meant certain death.
A new Telegram account from a Russian-language troll in St. Petersburg's nefarious troll factory who says he spends his days "s****ing in the comment boxes."
Olga Litvinenko, daughter of the rector of the National Mining University in St. Petersburg, claims she was present in 1997 and saw her father writing President Vladimir Putin's dissertation.
Having lived his whole life in the shadow of the dictator who executed his father, Aleksei Nesterenko now pickets each Wednesday, calling for a museum in the Moscow building where his father was executed on Stalin's order.
Animal-protection activists in Russia have discovered millions of rubles worth of state tenders for the killing of stray dogs and cats in cities that will host this summer's soccer World Cup.
After nine months of captivity in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine, Anatoly Polyakov stayed in Ukraine to help former POWS, leaving behind his home in Russia.
RFE/RL speaks with Ukrainian daredevil Mustang Wanted, three years after the death-defying urban climber defiantly hoisted a Ukrainian flag atop a skyscraper in Russia's capital in "a fit of sincere patriotic sentiment."
Russian police said the 25-year-old Missourian died of hypothermia in a Siberian forest and may have been using drugs. But his parents suspect foul play.
A chain of stores owned by a quirky Orthodox businessman has attracted national attention, and some consternation, for its aggressive display of signs rudely stating that homosexuals are not welcome.
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