The state itself no longer remembers why it began to target “gay propaganda,” or what threat it believed it posed.

Whether they like it or not, those who stay at home are supporting the police batons as they come down on the protesters’ skulls.

The transcript of the Russian leader’s conversation with the director reads like a manifesto of Putin’s own “The Autumn of the Patriarch.”

The Kremlin doesn’t know how to initiate change — it is capable only of responding to challenges presented to them from the outside.

Ex-minister Mikhail Abyzov’s shock arrest is undoubtedly a tragic event in the political life of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

The authorities cannot brush aside the video from the Yaroslavl Penal Colony, but that doesn’t mean it will bring lasting change.

What the investigation into a billionaire, a top official and an escort girl can tell us about Russia

Journalists in Russia working for independent media are not laughing anymore.

Over the past few months, almost all "informed sources" in the Kremlin, the government, the State Duma and even in the Russian Orthodox Church told...