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.
An RFE/RL investigation uncovers evidence that two regional Russian officials kept their Canary Island property secret, and prosecutors backed them up.
Three Russian mercenary commanders told RFE/RL what the situation is like in Syria and why their comrades are fighting there.
An RFE/RL journalist traveled deep into the heart of Russia to learn more about a man who is believed to have been killed while fighting as a mercenary in Syria.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov for the first time has conceded that a singer believed to have vanished in a purge of gay men in the region may have been killed -- but denies any state involvement in his disappearance.
A court in Irkutsk ruled that he's a child pornographer, but the former director of a French cultural organization in Siberia says he fled Russia because he was targeted in a "discredit tactic" conspiracy.
Authorities in Russia's North Caucasus say they no longer maintain a preemptive "extremism" watch list. But Arsen Gasanov, who has endured nearly weekly police harassment for 18 months, has a different opinion.
In Russia's southern Chechnya region, where authorities have allegedly subjected gay men to a campaign of abuse and torture, lesbian and bisexual women assiduously hide their sexual orientation amid stifling social and family pressure.
Ravshan Rakhimov faces the prospect of deportation from Russia to his oppressive Central Asian homeland of Uzbekistan. The story of how he found himself in this situation is nothing short of surreal.
In the six years that Russian state tenders have been made public, a prison in Novosibirsk has signed millions of dollars' worth of suspicious noncompetitive contracts with companies controlled by one regional legislator.
Amid worrying reports of a campaign of persecution against homosexuals in Chechnya, three gay men tell of the physical and mental abuse they escaped.
Speaking to journalists after he was freed from prison on February 26, civil-rights activist Ildar Dadin said he would continue to "fight against the system" and seek criminal action against a warden he accuses of widespread abuse.
A dark social-media game by the name of "Blue Whale" has been tenuously linked to teen suicides and self-harm in Russia and Central Asia. But while suicide rates are high, there's little evidence of a connection.
Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin was considered to be one of President Vladimir Putin's closest associates when he was abruptly dismissed. But some observers suspected his departure was linked to massive corruption and mismanagement.
A series of methane explosions in a coal mine in Russia's Far North recently left 36 people dead and the hardscrabble city of Vorkuta in mourning.
A yearlong investigation into a stolen luxury car could prove to be a textbook example of Russian police malfeasance after an investigator's lost telephone appears to expose a network of falsification and corruption.
The ongoing trial of a Russian conscript accused of murdering an entire family in Gyumri has renewed calls for the closure of the Russian military base stationed in this Armenian city.
The Russian village of Vegarus lies just 70 kilometers from affluent Finland, but time has stood still on this side of the border and many residents lack even basic amenities.
A tiny village in southern Russia has laid to rest one of its sons, the first confirmed Russian casualty since Moscow launched a military offensive in Syria on September 30. Relatives, friends, and neighbors are still asking how Vadim Kostenko died.
As Russia's economic crisis continues to drive up food prices, middle-class Russians are suddenly confronting hard choices at the supermarket. RFE/RL talks to residents in St. Petersburg, Samara, and other Russian cities about their dwindling mealtime options.
