Opposition-minded Russians who remain in the country are trying to keep politically active in whatever causes they can, ...

asha Alyokhina ran. First from a Russian apartment and her broken-off electronic ankle tag. Then through Belarus, Lithuania ...

Russia's foreign ministry on Wednesday said it had protested strongly to Berlin's envoy in Moscow over allegations made by Germany about the illness and hospitalisation of Kremlin critic Alexei ...

Founding member of Pussy Riot and one of the most high-profile political activists in Russia imprisoned by Vladimir Putin’s government – in this Ways to Change the World Podcast, Krishnan Guru-Murthy ...

The prison sentence handed down last week against three members of Pussy Riot, a group of activists opposed to President Vladimir Putin, will restrict a lot more than the personal freedoms of the ...

Moscow's highest court panel is examining an appeal by three members of the punk band Pussy Riot against their conviction for an anti-Putin protest. Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora legal aid group ...

Small protests have taken place in several regions, each revealing frustration that had remained beneath the surface. In some ...

The Interfax news agency cites Russia's prison service as saying Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is being sent to a new penal colony. The report Saturday comes after complaints by her husband ...

Maria Alyokhina reveals the conditions she endured in one of the remote penal colonies where opponents of Vladimir Putin face potential torture ...

Pussy Riot came to the world’s attention with its Punk Prayer, an angry anti-Putin anthem performed in a Moscow church. Maria Alyokhina spent two years incarcerated in a penal colony as a result. It ...

Japan decried as "absolutely unacceptable" on Wednesday Russia's extension of an entry ban to 30 more citizens, among them a ...