Sergei Khazov-Cassia is an award-winning investigative journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker who has focused his reporting on embezzlement and corruption in Russia's political elite.
Russia says Western sanctions are preventing it from maintaining a crucial natural-gas-export pipeline that supplies Turkey and the Balkans, potentially worsening Europe's energy crisis.
Since 2013, Russia's so-called gay propaganda law has been used to harass LGBT people, activists, and organizations. Now, parliament is preparing an even harsher version, and the LGBT community is warning of looming persecutions and violence.
Russia's economy may seem to be weathering Western sanctions, but it is anything but out of the woods, a prominent economist tells RFE/RL. In some places, "everyone there knows that in a couple of months they will be out of work."
Volodymyr Bilevich served in the Soviet and Russian air forces. But when Russia invaded Ukraine, the retired pilot launched a one-man campaign against the war. RFE/RL's Russian Service accompanied Bilevich, who is a Russian citizen but an ethnic Ukrainian.
Bad food, shoddy conditions for the kids; posh accommodations for VIP guests. One of Russia's best-known children's camps is plagued by corruption involving its politically connected director, according to an RFE/RL investigation.
Brutal and graphic, the leaked videos documenting torture and sexual violence in Russian prisons have shocked many Russians. The man who leaked them, a former inmate, now tells RFE/RL the story of how they came to light.
A gay Moscow man has fled Russia and is facing the prospect of losing custody of his disabled 10-year-old adopted son in a Kafkaesque confrontation with the authorities.
Millions of tons of toxic drilling waste are illegally disposed of in Russia each year with virtually no accountability from the country’s powerful oil industry, a new RFE/RL investigation shows.
Russian journalist Eduard Shmonin believes he was targeted by investigators for his exposé on massive oil theft in western Siberia. He's now facing up to 11 years in prison in a verdict expected next week.
A 22-year-old woman from a Daghestani family living in Siberia has been trying for months to get away from her parents, who are threatening to take her to Daghestan -- where she fears confinement, abuse, and maybe even a so-called honor killing
In March, Russian online media were full of salacious stories about how the FSB raided the St. Petersburg apartment of a Russian Orthodox bishop and discovered a laboratory for making drugs. Now the bishop has spoken exclusively to RFE/RL, saying he was framed for refusing to serve as an informant.
As Russia's health-care system is increasingly tested by the COVID-19 crisis, front-line doctors find themselves caught between an onslaught of patients and managers and officials eager to blame them for any shortcomings.
A young gay man from the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, has spoken to RFE/RL about the ordeals he faced in Turkmenistan over his sexual orientation. The man says he was beaten and threatened by police, who opened a criminal case against him on trumped-up charges.
An activist in the Far Eastern Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur is facing up to six years in prison for purportedly distributing pornography. Supporters say a hate campaign unleashed against her has been driven by a self-appointed "traditional values" defender who has been irked by her efforts to promote tolerance toward sexual minorities and to address gender issues.
A transgender woman in Russia finds herself facing three years in a men's prison after a court determined that anime images she posted on social media were pornographic.
Russian investigators have opened a criminal case into suspected "violent sexual assault against minors under the age of 14" over a YouTube video series in which children asked questions of a gay man. The creators of the video could face 20 years in prison for their effort to promote tolerance.
The Russian Orthodox Church, Gazprom, and the government have created a chain of some 20 Russian "history parks" that historians say present a "propagandistic" view of history with one main lesson -- "we need to gather together around our leader."
The torture methods included electric shocks from a black box bearing the words “lie detector,” says Amin Dzhabrailov, the first ethnic Chechen to publicly claim he was victimized in a brutal campaign targeting sexual minorities in Chechnya.
A missing Russian man may have been swept up in Chechnya's "gay purge."
Federal investigators took the rare step of overturning their North Ossetian colleagues over lurid rape allegations by a young autistic woman.
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