Anatoly Kurmanaev

Part catharsis, part political theatre, events like Twix’s death are providing people in Vladimir Putin’s Russia with rare opportunities to vent and bond.

The Russian authorities have issued sparse details of what they said happened to Aleksei A. Navalny, the opposition leader who they announced had died in prison.

A prowar Russian military blogger died Wednesday, his lawyer said, after the blogger wrote the country's military pressured him to remove a post exposing the scale of its losses in a recent battle in Ukraine.

The brutal cold, revolting food and beatings aren’t the worst part of being imprisoned at IK3, where Aleksei Navalny died. Rather, it’s being inside a system meant to break the human spirit.

Aleksei Navalny’s team has found a new leader in the opposition leader’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya. But Navalny’s death has so far brought little change to their insular tactics.

By VILNIUS, Lithuania — Alexei Navalny built Russia's largest opposition force in his image, embodying a freer, fairer Russia for millions.

BERLIN — A new sign went up a few miles from the front line recently on the main billboard of an occupied town in Ukraine's Luhansk region.

Many appeared to be heeding a call by the opposition to express frustration by showing up en masse at midday. “We don’t have any other options,” said one woman.

Vladimir Putin was all but assured of gaining another six-year term in a stage-managed presidential vote in which he faced no real competition.

Muhammad said he had found a better life in Russia. After emigrating from Tajikistan last fall, he began driving delivery vans in Siberia, enrolled