Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
A court in Russia's Far East has again extended the forced detention in a psychiatric clinic of a Yakut shaman who became known across the country for his attempts to march to Moscow to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin.
A Russian court has sentenced journalist Maria Ponomarenko to six years in prison on charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces for a social-media post highlighting a deadly attack on a Ukrainian theater last year.
Using grants and public organizations, the Russian state is making sure the Latin letters Z and V, the Kremlin's preferred symbols of support for the invasion of Ukraine and for President Vladimir Putin, remain constantly in front of everyone's eyes.
A special cemetery to bury the bodies of dead Wagner fighters is growing by the day as the mercenary company continues to suffer heavy losses in Ukraine.
A prosecutor has asked a court in the Siberian region of Kemerovo to convict and sentence a former correspondent for RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities project to 11 months of correctional work over social-media posts he made saying Russian forces attacked civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
A court in the Siberian city of Irkutsk has sentenced a former prison warden and two of his associates to five years in prison each on an abuse-of-office charge in a high-profile torture case.
A 25-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman have been detained in Russia's Novosibirsk after an explosion due to a gas leak tore apart a residential building, killing at least eight people, including a 2-year-old child.
The leader of Russia's Republic of Tyva in Siberia, Vladislav Khovalyg, has sent his representatives to parts of Ukraine's Russia-occupied Donetsk region after a group of Tyvan men mobilized to fight with the Russian armed forces invading Ukraine complained of ill treatment.
A 23-year-old university student in Siberia has been sentenced to three years in prison for posting a video on the Internet condemning Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Siberian journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who was under house arrest on a charge of discrediting Russia’s armed forces with "fake" social media posts about the war in Ukraine, has been transferred to a pretrial detention center on January 27 after she quarreled with her ex-husband overnight.
The former director of the Red Torch Theater in Novosibirsk, Aleksandr Kulyabin, whose son fled Russia last year after he protested against Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, has been detained on embezzlement charges.
Nobel Peace Prize laureates Dmitry Muratov and Maria Ressa have urged the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to intervene on behalf of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who has spent more than 100 days in punitive solitary confinement since August 2022.
The wife of an officer with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) who was deported from Kazakhstan to Russia weeks ago is seeking political asylum in France after fearing she and her children may also be sent back home.
A fire in a private house in the town of Leninsk-Kuznetsk in the Siberian region of Kemerovo has killed a woman and three children.
The ex-mayor of the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, Oleg Gumenyuk, has been sentenced to 16 1/2 years in prison after a court found him guilty of taking large bribes.
Artyom Uss, the son of the governor of Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai region, has asked an Italian court to extradite him to Russia, not the United States, where he faces up to 30 years in prison on charges of sanctions evasion and money laundering.
A court in the Siberian city of Barnaul has rejected a request by journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who is under house arrest on the charge of discrediting Russia’s armed forces with "fake" social-media posts about the war in Ukraine, to be transferred to a pretrial detention center.
Despite Western sanctions imposed over the invasion of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus continue to ship timber to the EU by labeling the products as coming from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, an investigative report says.
An anti-war activist in the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk, who is facing charges of "discrediting" Russia's army, has been missing for more than a week -- and his associates fear for his safety.
Officials in the Siberian city of Chita have raised eyebrows by commissioning 24 ice and plastic sculptures of Russian combat soldiers and placing them around the city as New Year's decorations.
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