Anastasia Stognei

Pro-choice campaigners have linked ultra-conservative rhetoric to Kremlin’s desire for more soldiers

The invasion of Ukraine is contributing to growing expenditures, a depreciating rouble, inflation and a tight labour market, a new report says.

Alrosa's assets in the bloc will be frozen along with those of its chief, who will also be subject to a travel ban

Failing Soviet utilities are in dire need of investment but the Kremlin is focused on defence spending

The Russian leaders is in full campaign mode as Soviet pipes and freezing flats stoke discontent.

Addressing a crowd of activists on Friday in Tula, the capital of Russia's arms industry, Vladimir Putin crowed that the country's economy had defeated western sanctions imposed after his invasion of Ukraine.

The Russian president despised the popular opposition figure and his security forces will ensure his mourners are arrested “and then everything will die out”.

After two decades of shunning the limelight, Alexei Navalny’s widow could be the most prominent female opposition figure in Russia in at least two decades

For years, Yulia Navalnaya eschewed the political spotlight.

Kremlin had warned against ‘unsanctioned gatherings’ after death of opposition leader in Arctic prison colony