Lyubov Chizhova is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Russian Service.
A group of Russian hackers has leaked private e-mails belonging to the head of Roskomnadzor, the federal agency for media oversight.
Russia's decision to bar Americans from adopting Russian children has prevented more than 250 orphans from being united with their prospective families in the United States. Two years on, RFE/RL was able to track down some of these children.
Health professionals in Russia have launched a protest campaign against a new reform they say will mean the destruction of the country's health-care system. In Moscow, cuts, redundancies, and hospital closures are already in full swing.
Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian military pilot held by Russia and accused in the deaths of two journalists, is reported to be in good health. But family members and Ukrainian officials continue to be denied access to her holding cell in Voronezh, a fact that some observers worry is just the start of a Russian pressure campaign.
Patriotism has become fashionable in Russia since the country's annexation of Crimea and schools are getting in on the action. But not all teachers are willing to play by the new rules.
With its annexation of Crimea, Russia has reclaimed miles of picturesque beaches and thousands of hotels and sanatoriums. Now all it needs is the tourists.
Supporters held a rally in Moscow on Taisia Osipova's 29th birthday to call for the release of the jailed Russian opposition activist, who is serving an eight-year sentence on drug charges widely seen as fabricated.
Russia has detained hundreds of labor migrants after an attack by Daghestani vendors on a policeman. Many say the detentions are overlooking the root cause of the problem -- rampant corruption.
As ecologists worldwide mark World Environment Day, Russia’s green activists say they are under unprecedented pressure from authorities. Russian prosecutors have carried out spot inspections at hundreds of nongovernmental organizations in recent months, part of a controversial campaign aimed at forcing some groups to register as "foreign agents." Environmental groups have not been spared.
The League of Voters, a new civic grouping designed to monitor fraud in Russia's March presidential election and founded by leading members of the cultural elite, is born.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has quietly signed off on an order to bestow state journalism prizes to a number of reporters who have been harshly critical of his authoritarian political system -- leaving them wondering whether they should accept the awards at all.
Viewers in the Russian Far East this week saw a surprisingly hard-hitting news report about alleged human rights abuses in Chechnya. Normally, heavily state-controlled Russian television depicts the republic as a peaceful and thriving region. But viewers in European Russia did not see the controversial story after Gazprom's NTV television pulled it for "reworking."
Anger is running high in Russia's Baikal region after the government gave the go-ahead to reopen a notorious paper mill blamed for polluting Lake Baikal for more than 40 years.
A tabloid journalist in Russia calls for babies with mental retardation or other developmental disabilities to be euthanized, highlighting widespread prejudice against the disabled in Russia. The case comes amid a wider debate about the country's looming population crisis, with critics saying the country must learn to take better care of all of its citizens.
Stories of trapped survivors knocking to alert rescue workers that they are alive. A detached government ill-equipped to deal with sudden disaster. A race-against-the-clock rescue effort as hope fades. In many ways, this week's disaster at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station is reminiscent of the August 2000 sinking of the submarine "Kursk."
