Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
A man in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk has received four years and eight months in prison for his intention to join Ukraine's armed forces and fight against Russian troops involved in the war in Ukraine.
A court in the Siberian city of Chita has fined a blogger for sharing on Instagram a dream he had where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy makes an appearance.
A court in Russia’s Yakutia has begun the trial of the ex-leader of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in the Siberia region
A gas explosion has killed at least eight people and destroyed five apartments in a five-floor residential building in the Russian city of Nizhnevartovsk in Siberia.
The Primorye regional court in Russia's Far East has rejected an appeal filed against the extension of forced psychiatric treatment filed by a Yakut shaman who became known across Russia for his attempts to march to Moscow to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin.
In a small village in Russia's Far East, a significant portion of military-age men were mobilized for President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. RFE/RL reports firsthand on the impact of the war in this remote and impoverished settlement.
An LGBT activist and artist acquitted recently in a high-profile pornography case over nude drawings and other artwork she posted online has left Russia days after an unsuccessful appeal by prosecutors, her mother mother said on November 25.
As Moscow’s war on Ukraine lurches into a new, uncertain phase, Russian authorities are increasingly turning to the country’s prisons to replenish depleted units. The Vagner Group is leading the effort, and the result, in some cases, is inmates being coerced into signing up -- or even threatened.
Sergei Furgal, the former governor of the Far Eastern Khabarovsk region of Russia, whose arrest in 2020 caused months-long protests, has launched a hunger strike.
A court in Siberia has upheld the acquittal of LGBT activist and artist Yulia Tsvetkova in a high-profile case over drawings and other works of art she posted online that depict women's bodies.
A disabled Russian college student claims he was abducted by police, tortured, and forced to confess to burning banners in support of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, though he denies any involvement.
Siberian journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who was detained in April and accused of discrediting the Russian armed forces with "fake" social-media posts about the war in Ukraine, has been transferred to house arrest.
Yevgeny Fotin left his wife and baby boy, Bogdan, more than 20 years ago, never to play a further role in their life. That isn't stopping Fotin from fighting to collect a share of the state compensation following Bogdan's death in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Kazakh authorities have detained journalist Yevgenia Baltatarova who is wanted in her native Republic of Buryatia in Russia for alleged distribution of false information about Russia's armed forces.
About one in five Russians say their savings have shrunk since Moscow launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February. With the war grinding on and with the dislocations caused by military mobilization, economists say it is becoming harder for average Russians to cope.
The U.S. Justice Department has charged nearly a dozen individuals with participating in illegal schemes to export sophisticated technologies to Russia and evade sanctions on Venezuelan oil.
At least 16 mobilized Russian soldiers have died in the 2 1/2 weeks since President Vladimir Putin announced a sweeping plan to get more troops to bolster the flagging Ukraine war effort. Though small, the number underscores the wider chaos afflicting the recruitment process.
The former director general and co-owner of a shopping mall that was destroyed by a fire in 2018, killing 60 people including 37 children, has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
The last native speaker of the Aleut language in Russia, Gennady Yakovlev, has died at the age of 86 in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka region.
In a tit-for-tat move, Tokyo has ordered a senior Russian official stationed in the country to leave following Russia's decision last week to expel a Japanese diplomat over alleged spying.
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