Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
A Kazakh student at Tomsk State University in Siberia, Marghulan Bekenov, was forced to join the Russian private mercenary group Wagner in March, his mother says.
The governor of the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia, Aleksandr Uss, has resigned after his son Artyom escaped house arrest in Italy, where he faced extradition to the United States, and appeared in Russia.
The Russian parliament's lower chamber, the State Duma, has approved all three readings of a bill that would set a penalty of life imprisonment for high treason.
Russian police in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg have detained a local activist who was interviewed by Evan Gershkovich and helped the jailed Wall Street Journal reporter before the American journalist was arrested on espionage charges.
An open-source project run jointly by the BBC and the Mediazona website has confirmed the deaths of more than 20,000 Russian service personnel in Ukraine, about one-third of them mercenaries recruited by the ostensibly private Wagner security firm.
A court in Russia’s Far Eastern region of Kamchatka has ordered the deportation of a German citizen for allegedly violating Russia’s law on promoting homosexuality, often called the "gay propaganda" law.
An actor in a theater in the Siberian region of Buryatia has slashed his veins while on stage to protest the firing of the company's artistic director last year over his stance against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The editor in chief of the Novy fokus (New Focus) online newspaper in the Siberian region of Khakasia, Mikhail Afanasyev, went on trial on March 29 charged with discrediting Russia's armed forces.
A court of appeals in Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok has canceled the acquittal of LGBTQ activist and artist Yulia Tsvetkova in a high-profile pornography case involving nude drawings and other artwork.
Two venues in the United States have canceled performances by Russian opera singer Ildar Abdrazakov over his open support of the Russian government's policies.
Stepped-up recruitment efforts are under way in Russia as the Kremlin looks to replenish its ranks following 13 months of grinding war in Ukraine.
Siberian journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who was sentenced to six years in prison last month on a charge of discrediting Russia’s armed forces involved in Moscow ongoing invasion of Ukraine, says she was beaten while in custody.
A court in the Siberian city of Barnaul has sentenced an officer with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) who was deported from Kazakhstan, where he unsuccessfully sought political asylum, to 6 1/2 years in prison.
A friend of a mobilized Russian soldier from Siberia has gone public with the man's account of Russia's costly offensive in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, describing how poorly trained and equipped mobilized soldiers take enormous casualties trying to storm hardened defensive positions.
Locals in two villages in Siberia's Zabaikalye region are dismayed that authorities have subsidized funerals with military honors for young men they remember as drunkards, bullies, and hooligans.
Well-known Soviet-era dissident and human rights activist Sergei Grigoryants has died in Moscow at the age of 81, his daughter said on March 14.
A court in the Siberian region of Kemerovo has sentenced a former correspondent for RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities project to eight months of correctional work over social media posts he published saying Russian forces attacked civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
A 21-year-old soldier in Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok has been sentenced to seven years in prison for throwing Molotov cocktails at a local military enlistment center in July.
A video has gone viral of what appears to be coffins stacked like wood at the main international airport in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Many are thought to have been local inmates who signed up to fight in Ukraine with the Wagner mercenary force.
Russia's military prosecutors have decided not to launch a probe into claims by a group of Tyvan men mobilized to fight for Russia's armed forces in Ukraine that they were beaten and mistreated.
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