Robert Coalson worked as a correspondent for RFE/RL from 2002 to 2024.
An independent lawmaker in Krasnoyarsk has created a scandal in Russia with a scathing social-media attack on the controversial head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov -- followed quickly by an apology.
Ukrainians were left scratching their heads after U.S. President Barack Obama referred to their country in a major speech as a "client state" of Russia.
A 400-plus-page report by Spanish prosecutors on the alleged connections between an organized-crime gang and the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been published in Russian.
Activists in southern Ukraine, led by representatives of the Crimean Tatar minority, are pushing hard to force Kyiv to adopt a more aggressive policy aimed at recovering Crimea.
Dzerzhinsky didn't survive the purge of Moscow Metro station names honoring Soviet officials. Lenin didn't either. But the name of a Bolshevik revolutionary who helped murder the tsar's family lives on at Voikovskaya station -- at least for now.
Foreign policy is not the driving issue of the U.S. Republican Party's primary campaign, but when the topic comes up, it often boils down to one name: Vladimir Putin.
Many Russian theater critics are up in arms over the composition of the jury for the country's most prestigious theater awards. They claim President Vladimir Putin's conservative culture minister is seeking to inject a dose of patriotism into the proceedings.
The man who headed Moscow State University's journalism department for more than four decades has a bleak assessment of the work being done by his former students at Russian state media outlets.
The migrant crisis is in Europe. But judging by the Internet, Russians are the most upset about it.
A grenade attack against police and National Guardsmen outside Ukraine's parliament has renewed allegations that the government of President Petro Poroshenko has been too indulgent toward ultranationalists who are not afraid to use violence to promote their radical agendas.
In 1968, eight Soviet citizens protested in Red Square against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Now many Russians are facing the same test of courage as they take public stands against the policies of President Vladimir Putin.
Politically driven show trials are a lamentable tradition from Soviet times. But trials staged under Russian President Vladimir Putin have produced a new genre -- the defendant's defiant and impassioned closing speech.
Ukrainian paratrooper Oleksandr Mashonkin was captured after the hellish fighting at the Donetsk airport in January -- and thrust into another nightmare. The "cyborg," who was released in a prisoner exchange after 197 days in captivity in Donetsk, says he and fellow prisoners were beaten with “pipes, stools, table legs” and even a cross wielded by a priest.
Former Astrakhan police officer Elshad Babayev thought he was helping society by taking drunk drivers off the streets. But some of the police officers and other officials that he caught on video driving drunk think he's just a menace.
Fifteen years after the tragic sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine with the loss of 118 lives, lawyer Boris Kuznetsov -- who represented the families of 55 of the victims -- is still fighting to get the whole story out.
Russian-language linguist Ilya Frank intends to join the growing number of disillusioned Jews leaving Vladimir Putin's Russia for Israel. He says he doesn't want his 6-year-old daughter to attend schools suffused with "Nazi propaganda."
After local authorities in Perm took over control of Russia's only gulag museum, a visit to the revamped exhibition revealed an unexpected take on Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's labor camps.
A British documentary film exposing the complicity of London real-estate agents and others in laundering criminal money from Russia has set off a social-media campaign aimed at ending the United Kingdoms's role as handmaiden to "the global looting machine."
Leaked findings on the downing over eastern Ukraine of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet point the finger at pro-Russian rebels using a Russian-supplied weapon -- and could scarcely be more at odds with assertions and suppositions flowing out of Russia in the year since the disaster.
Ukrainian security officials have now identified eight active Russian generals as being in command positions of the separatist military forces in eastern Ukraine.
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