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Women’s football under Russian air raids, Ukrainian soldiers’ bridgehead in enemy-held Kherson, and the cinematographers flying deadly drones

Hundreds of Russian convicts have been released back into civil society after presidential pardons

A lawyer for a man convicted in the 2006 killing of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya received a presidential pardon after a stint fighting in Ukraine

Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko has survived a poisoning attempt and managed to evade a Chechen hit squad, but the attempts on her life have not dissuaded her from becoming one of Russia's most outspoken dissenters. She has just published her first book, "I Love Russia", which she wrote while in…

The Novaya Gazeta journalist offers brilliant, immersive bulletins from her homeland but doesn’t explain its return to totalitarian rule

One hundred days after Iranians first protested the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab incorrectly, Narges Mohammadi sat down in her prison cell to write a letter to the country’s women. She promised: “We shall not back down until the moment of victory, meaning the…

Nobel Prize-winning journalist Dmitry Muratov has been declared a “foreign agent” by Russian authorities.

Russian authorities have declared newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov to be a foreign agent, continuing the country’s moves to suppress critics and independent reporting

Kitty Flanagan is sublime in an Aussie legal comedy, while a journalist risks all in Russia. Plus, the Sex and the City crew wind up another series, and a rather average new thriller

Two other journalists in Prague and Tblisi may form trio of suspected poisonings in European capitals, report claims

Over the years, Kremlin political critics, turncoat spies and journalists have been killed in a variety of ways