Democracy and Media

Who owns what?

Russia lawmakers move to classify real estate ownership data

1,658 CCTV cameras

Murmansk gets comprehensive facial-recognition surveillance system

Moscow threatens to block Marianne's news online over interview from 2018

Russia's liberal Dozhd TV returns to the air after wartime crackdown

Fighting the regime

Leading Putin-critics from Arkhangelsk are wanted by police

Novaya Gazeta’s Norwegian domain NO magazine blocked

dictatorship

Russia has blocked 138,000 websites since Ukraine invasion, prosecutor says

In border town Kirkenes, local Russians stand up against war

The other Russia

The Russian fight against war

Kremlin censorship

Russia blocks Finnish broadcaster YLE

Viktor Vorobyev

A lonely politician from the Russian North speaks up against war

SIDA

Russia kicks out Sweden’s development agency

war censorship

Siberian journalist jailed for military ‘Fakes’ moved to psychiatric care

For almost 15 years they have published independent news from the Russian North. Now they are blocked

restart

Novaya Gazeta launches European edition in bid to dodge Kremlin censorship

Russia is leaving the Council of Europe

'Slava Ukraine,' the man from Arkhangelsk shouted before he was ushered away by police

As new iron curtain descends, Moscow takes action against "foreign influence"

Yuri Zhdanov

Naryan-Mar court sentences father of Russian opposition leader to 3 years in jail

Roskomnadzor

Use only official sources, media watchdog tells Russian journalists

war media

Kremlin steps up closure of info-space

'No War' says a lonely Murmansk protester

Environmental NGO

Bellona halts activities in Russia after 30 years of environmental work

Repression

Russia's best journalists are fleeing the country

Ivan Moseev

European court rules Russia violated Arkhangelsk activist's rights

Russia’s Novaya Gazeta suspends operations after Kremlin warnings

Censorship

Moscow Times' Russian service blocked over war coverage

Repression

"This candle must not be blown out"

As Russian editor Dmitry Muratov wins Nobel Peace Prize, Moscow adds another 9 journalists to Foreign Agent list

Repressive state

Yelena is a terrorist and extremist, Russian prosecutors say

Police state

An interior ministry colonel is appointed human rights chancellor in north Russian region

Police state

General Prosecutor demands shutdown of Memorial

Komi

Police special forces detain a north Russian human rights activist

Dmitry Muratov

Nobel Peace Prize for independent journalism in Russia

EU-Russia

European Parliament: Putin's regime is a stagnating authoritarian kleptocracy

Andrei Borovikov

Imprisoned Navalny aid in Arkhangelsk gets share of Boris Nemtsov award money

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