Robert Coalson worked as a correspondent for RFE/RL from 2002 to 2024.
Some parents in Russia's Kamchatka region are angry that Orthodox priests were visiting their kids' summer camps.
A Russian town is confronting the past after pieces of a Josef Stalin statue were unexpectedly found in a local pond.
Ukrainian photographer Tetyana Krukovets has created the Fearless Beauty project to break through the isolation that cancer patients often experience.
The Russian Orthodox Church is using a 2010 restitution law to push for ownership of the medieval Golden Gate monument in the historic city of Vladimir. It is just one of dozens of claims to high-profile or lucrative property that the church has filed in recent months that has many in the country worried about the church's growing secular might.
Russian officials have held out the tantalizing possibility they might allow a national referendum on the government's much-hated proposal to raise retirement ages. But is it a red herring?
Hosting the 2018 World Cup cost Russia billions. But unpaid workers at one of its new stadiums say that wasn't quite enough.
Ninety percent of Russians oppose the Kremlin's plan to raise retirement ages. And now some regional activists of the ruling United Russia party are handing in their party cards and joining the ranks of the protesters.
A man in the Volga River city of Engels fell to his death this month while demonstrating to officials the dangerous and dilapidated condition of his fourth-floor balcony.
In Russia, the Helsinki summit is being depicted as an important first step to reestablishing U.S.-Russian relations, with analysts lauding the formation of bilateral working groups that were being largely ignored by commentators in the West.
Does U.S. President Donald Trump blame Russia for any of the problems in bilateral relations? Does Russian President Vladimir Putin have any "compromising information" on Trump or his family? These are two of the questions the presidents artfully dodged at their press conference in Helsinki.
More than 20 children with cystic fibrosis in Siberia's Kemerovo region have come down with a potentially deadly infection. Parents say local officials are preventing them from getting the antibiotics they need and are not doing enough to prevent the transmission of such infections in hospitals.
A quasi-religious painting depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin as the sun god Helios in the company of, among others, the Madonna and child and Kievan Grand Prince Vladimir has become a widely ridiculed viral meme in Russia. The artist who painted it makes no apologies for his depiction.
Eighty-five years ago this summer, more than 4,000 people died of disease, exposure, violence, and starvation at a Stalinist labor camp on Nazinsky Island in Siberia. Until 1988, the Soviet government suppressed the story of those hellish six weeks on what came to be known as Cannibal Island.
Russia's national soccer team has done well in this World Cup so far, but many people in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya are unimpressed.
A bill snaking its way through the Duma on the teaching of native languages has representatives of Russia's so-called ethnic republics up in arms, arguing that Moscow's intention is to "make everyone Russian."
A teacher uncovers evidence that questions in the math section of Russia's unified graduation exam were leaked ahead of time on the Internet. Instead of investigating the alleged source, the government plans to sue the teacher.
Seventeen Jehovah's Witnesses have been jailed in Russia in the year since Moscow declared the denomination an "extremist organization." And raids on the homes of believers continue across the country.
A woman was fired from her TV job in Siberia after raising a ruckus when her daughter participated in a kindergarten concert that featured a militaristic song pledging loyalty to President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin tried to spice up Putin’s annual call-in show by having federal and local officials respond directly to public's complaints. Instead, the officials were dull and – well – official.
On the eve of the Russian president's annual Direct Line question-and-answer session with the Russian public, RFE/RL looks back at some of last year's promises and how they turned out.
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