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Communication and technology regulator Roskomnadzor has started to block access to Telegram for about ten million Russians.

Supporters fear for Oleg Sentsov’s life as his health condition is deteriorating.

As climate change brings increased international attention to the Arctic, Indigenous filmmakers across the circumpolar countries will have a new resource to help them tell their own stories.

I never lost the spirit, says the civil rights defender. This weekend, he was released after more than a year in jail.

Ten residents of Sosnogorsk, Komi Republic, held a picket, demanding better life in the region and protesting against the latest decisions of the Komi head Sergey Gaplikov. They joined the week of protest, initiated by the Save Pechora environmental group.

The solitary picket of Tatiana Ivanova in front of the regional government building lasted only 15 minutes.

Civil rights organization Memorial presents its updated fifth edition of the database, which contains the names of political prisoners and forced settlers executed during the Soviet period.

Looking for a copy of the New York Times or Die Welt for sale in Moscow? Then you should hurry, by January 1st, distribution can be banned.

The Petrozavodsk City Court turns down plea for new forensic experts and better arrest conditions for the head of civil rights society Memorial in Karelia.

Activists might no longer be allowed into the downtown park which previously was used for demonstrations.

"There is systematic spreading of disinformation about the Sámi that threaten our freedom of speech", says the former editor of YLE Sápmi.

Marking the annual Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Political Repression, the official Karelia strove not to mention the name of Yury Dmitriev, one of the pioneers in locating and investigating such sites of mass burial.