Golos spent 25 years campaigning for voters' rights and monitoring elections in Russia. As pressure from authorities mounts, ...

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Russia condemned on Wednesday the detention of a human rights lawyer from Kaliningrad, saying her arrest appeared to be retaliation for defending ...

A review of Antidote, a documentary by James Jones, opening at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in Toronto on Friday, July 11, 2025 ...

The statement highlighted Yale's "Anti-Corruption Foundation," founded by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, deeming ...

The suspicious death of former Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit after his dismissal mirrored a disturbing pattern ...

A Russian court jailed ex-deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov for 13 years on corruption charges on Tuesday, part of a sweeping crackdown ...

There is a deliberate policy by the Kremlin to exile, neutralise, and effectively erase alternative political life within the country, reports Denis Mikhailov ...

Speech by Michael O’Flaherty delivered at the conference to mark the adoption and opening for signature of the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer, organised by ...

Russian dissident and Kremlin critic Leonid Volkov, a prominent ally of the late opposition leader Alexey Navalny, has been sentenced in absentia to 18 years in prison.

Two other lawyers who used to represent Navalny, Alexander Fedulov and Olga Mikhailova, fled Russia in the face of similar charges, and are now on a wanted list. When the draconian sentences were ...

Three lawyers who represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were sentenced to prison terms on Friday for alleged involvement in an "extremist organisation”. The sentencing of ...