Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
The United States has blasted a decision by Russian authorities to sentence a former employee of the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok to a lengthy prison term on charges Washington has called baseless.
The Primorye regional court in Russia's Far East on November 1 sentenced Robert Shonov, a former employee of the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok, to a lengthy prison sentence on charges of "confidential collaboration with a foreign state," which Washington has called baseless.
Russia approached the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression on October 30, amid a troubling landscape marked by a mix of solemn commemorations and unsettling governmental shifts.
A Russian man was found alive in a catamaran two months after it went missing off the Russian Pacific region of Khabarovsk and drifted about 1,000 kilometers across the Sea of Okhotsk.
A monument has been erected in the Siberian city of Nizhnevartovsk to honor victims of the brutal purges from the 1930s to the 1950s, despite efforts by the Russian government to glorify Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and downplay the extent of Soviet-era political repression.
Amid intensifying pressure on technology platforms, Roskomnadzor, Russia’s communications regulator, on October 8, announced the official blocking of the Discord messaging platform, citing violations of Russian law.
The twin brothers were popular, hard-working young men from Siberia who were drafted for their year of military service in November 2023. With only a few months left to go, Konstantin and Dmitry Reshka were posted near the Ukrainian border. That's the last their family heard of them.
Mikhail Afanasyev, the imprisoned editor-in-chief of the Novy fokus (New Focus) online newspaper covering the Siberian region of Khakassia, has been given a 2024 Free Media Award for journalistic bravery.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on September 17 that nine people were arrested in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk after the deaths of three people who died while receiving IV treatments.
Jailed Russian anti-war activist and journalist Maria Ponomarenko has started a hunger strike to protest a new charge laid against her and a prison report saying she was reprimanded seven times for violating penitentiary rules.
A military court in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk said on September 12 that it sentenced Private Oleg Gorbachyov of the Russian armed forces to 8 years in prison for beating his wife to death.
Two more former convicts recruited by the Wagner mercenary group have been handed lengthy prison terms for murders in Siberia.
A court in the Russian city of Tomsk on September 9 sentenced the former governor of the Siberian Tomsk region, Dmitry Gurdin, to four years in prison on embezzlement charges.
The Russian Interior Ministry on September 5 added self-exiled military observer Yan Matveyev to its wanted list on unspecified charges.
An unknown number of Siberian homeless men are among the roughly 190,000 men Russia says it recruited this year to fight its war in Ukraine. Money, patriotism, and a desire for purpose motivate the homeless to join up, but activists doubt that fighting in Ukraine will give them a “normal life.”
A court in Siberia on July 30 sentenced Sergei Mikhailov, a journalist and founder of the LIStok newspaper in the city of Gorno-Altaisk, to 8 years in prison on a charge of distributing false information about the Russian military.
A court in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on August 30 sentenced activist Zigmund Khudyakov to 23 days in jail for publicly wearing in January a T-shirt with a picture of late opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead near the Kremlin in 2015.
Large portraits of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, the deceased founders of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, appeared in Narym park in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on August 23, the first anniversary of their deaths in a suspicious plane crash.
Russian film director Ivan Vyrypayev has been retried and sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison in absentia on the charge of "discrediting the Russian armed forces."
Russia's Investigative Committee said on August 5 that a court in Moscow sent to pretrial detention Vyacheslav Akhmedov, the director of the Defense Ministry's Patriot Park near the capital, on fraud charges.
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