This week, the Russia’s Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don handed down its verdict on Gennady and Olha ...

In early September, Moscow activists Daria Bunkova and Nabi Balabekov fled Russia after being arrested over an “unauthorized ...

Lida Moniava, the director of the prominent children’s hospice Lighthouse (“Dom s Mayakom”), was detained in Moscow under the ...

It’s unbelievable, but Mediazona is celebrating its 12th birthday. For over a decade, we have fought to report the truth about Russia. It has often seemed as though things were only getting worse; we ...

A judge in St Petersburg has fined feminist activist and artist Daria Apakhonchich 150,000 roubles (about $1,740) for ...

Vyacheslav Khasanov opened the first Pose bar in Ufa, Bashkortostan, in mid-2020, and a second one under the same name appeared in Orenburg a year later. Both were positioned not as gay clubs, but as ...

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court is hearing cases against Apple Distribution International, which faces charges of disseminating materials considered “LGBT propaganda”. This article will include live ...

Mediazona was able to identify the 27 names of those who died in the military An-26 aircraft crash this spring. The plane, which was carrying Lieutenant General Alexander ...

For the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine, Mediazona and Meduza jointly release the second part of our investigation into Russian casualties. Using a method we developed six months ago, we ...

In March alone, garrison and district courts in Russia carried out nearly 700 sentences in cases of “absence without leave” (Article 337 of the Criminal Code), Mediazona research shows. The number of ...