Dmitry Volchek is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Russian Service.
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.
A Russian businessman who spent six months alongside insurgents in eastern Ukraine returns with tales of looting, drinking, and murder.
A string of satirical musical clips mocking Russia's support for separatists in eastern Ukraine has gone viral on YouTube.
Ever wonder what the daily life of a Russian Internet troll is like? Dmitry Volchek of RFE/RL's Russian Service talks to a young blogger who recently spent two months working at the country's main "troll factory," the Internet Research center in St. Petersburg. He talks about the long hours, production quotas, and what he calls the "absurd" assignments that come with being a troll.
Manon Loizeau, a French documentary filmmaker, has produced numerous works on the restive recent history of Chechnya. She speaks to RFE/RL's Russian Service about her latest, "Chechnya: War Without Trace," which looks at life under pro-Kremlin strongman Ramzan Kadyrov.
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.
Donetsk native Svitlana Matushko spent seven days in the basement of the former Ukrainian secret services building in the eastern Ukrainian city. She tells how the separatist authorities there are using terror to push out all those who oppose their agenda.
Controversial Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky tells RFE/RL about his latest stunt, during which he cut off his earlobe to protest the forced use of psychiatric treatment against dissidents. Last year, Pavlensky nailed his scrotum to the cobblestones of Red Square.
Two Kremlin-friendly Russian singers will perform this week at London's top concert hall, despite calls on Britain to bar them from entering the country. Iosif Kobzon and Valeria have actively backed Russia's actions in Ukraine.
The Donetsk street artist best known for his satirical depiction of a suicidal separatist commander is now working on a more serious comic book based on his time as a captive of pro-Russian separatists.
Ukrainian singer Anastasia Prykhodko has been targeted by a mudslinging campaign on Russian television. Prykhodko, who shot to fame in Russia, has been performing for Ukrainian troops in the country's strife-torn east.
Vitriol meets diesel oil when a professional Ukrainian singer turned American truck driver gets behind the wheel.
After enduring a night of beatings at the hands of rebel forces, she was wrapped in a Ukrainian flag, forced to stand at a Donetsk intersection, and subjected to public humiliation and physical attacks. Irina Dovgan, a woman detained and accused by pro-Russian separatists of spying for Ukrainian forces, tells her story.
In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL's Russian Service, Ukrainian journalist and Maidan activist Irma Krat speaks about her ordeal in captivity after being detained and held for 77 days by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian theater director Pavel Yurov and Denis Grishchuk, a Kyiv-based artist, were freed earlier this month after being held for 70 days by pro-Russian separatists. They shared their story with RFE/RL.
Russians frustrated by political repressions and a hostile business climate at home are increasingly seeking to resettle in neighboring Ukraine. RFE/RL's Russian Service spoke to six Russians about their reasons for making the switch.
A young Kyiv resident is drawing international attention with a string of spectacular videos showing him scaling skyscrapers and dangling off cranes. The daredevil, who goes by the pseudonym Mustang Wanted, is also the author of a short film documenting the bloody clashes between police and anti-government protesters in the Ukrainian capital earlier this year.
Sergei Ivanov, who fled his native Luhansk and is now in Kyiv, says he can't "understand or accept or forgive what Russia has done to us."
"Maidan," a documentary film on the anti-government protests in Ukraine, has premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
European artists are calling for a boycott of cultural events in Russia to protest the takeover of Ukraine's strategic Crimean Peninsula.
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