Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
For decades, Russia's government has been promising people in the coldest regions of Siberia and the Far East access to natural gas for heating. But the Ukraine war, which has eviscerated Gazprom’s profits and diverted public money to defense production, has many doubting they will live to see it.
Andrei Turchak on June 15 resigned from his post as secretary of United Russia with Vladimir Yakushev, the presidential envoy in the Urals Federal District, appointed as the acting secretary.
Retired Russian pilot Igor Pokusin, whose opposition to his country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine landed him in prison, has died at the age of 61.
A court in Russia’s Far Eastern region of Primorye has sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to 6 years and 2 months in prison amid a continued crackdown on the religious group.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on June 7 that two people have been detained over the collision of two trams that killed one person and injured more than 140 others in the Siberian city of Kemerovo.
Authorities in the Siberian city of Kemerovo said on June 6 that one person died and more than 100 people were injured after a tram driver lost control of the vehicle and slammed into another tram.
A court in the Siberian city of Tomsk has rejected an appeal filed by Ksenia Fadeyeva, a former local lawmaker and the ex-head of late opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's regional team, over a nine-year prison term she was handed in December for extremism, a charge she and her supporters reject.
A court in Russia's Siberian region of Kemerovo on May 28 sentenced the former chief engineer at a coal mine over an explosion in 2021 that killed 51 people.
A court in Siberia on May 23 sentenced a teenager to 13 years in prison for distributing leaflets containing the symbol for the Free Russia Legion, which is fighting alongside Ukrainian armed forces against Russian troops.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on May 21 that the former deputy governor of the Kalman district in the Siberian region of Altai Krai, Vitaly Manishin, will face trial over the deaths of 11 women.
A court in Siberia on May 20 sentenced anti-war activist Ilya Baburin to 25 years in prison on a high-treason charge that stemmed from allegations that the 24-year-old planned to set several military recruitment centers on fire.
Russian physicist Anatoly Maslov reiterated his innocence in his final statement on May 17 at his treason trial before the court renders its verdict.
A Russian rights movement said on May 16 that police detained activist Olga Suvorova in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk while she was attending a doctor after a surgery and took her to a psychiatric clinic against her will for unknown reasons.
A court in Russia's Far East again refused to transfer to a less restrictive psychiatric clinic a Yakut shaman who became known across the country in 2019 for his attempts to march to Moscow to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin.
A court in Siberia on May 14 sentenced a resident of Novosibirsk to 12 years in prison on charges of attempted sabotage in 2022 and having links with the Freedom of Russia legion that is fighting alongside Ukrainian forces against occupying Russian troops.
A state of emergency was introduced in the Siberian region of Yakutia on May 13 after four local villages were hit by floods. Residents of four other Siberian villages in the Omsk region were evacuated on May 12 over as water level in the Irtysh River went up dramatically.
Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny was posthumously awarded the 2024 Dresden Peace Prize in the German city on May 12. His widow, Yulia Navalnaya, accepted for her husband, who died in February in a Russian prison.
A military court in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on May 3 sentenced anti-war activist Angel Nikolayev to 15 years in prison on a charge of arson against a military recruitment center, desecration of Russia's national flag, and vandalism.
After residents of a village in Russia's Tyumen region escaped historic floodwaters, they received no help from the authorities or rescue services despite multiple promises. Some are now living in an open field.
A military court in Siberia has handed prison terms to two teenagers over graffiti they painted protesting Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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