Altai Project News Today

It is difficult to pin down the exact moment that Russia began morphing into a totalitarian state, but the transformation didn’t take long. For over a decade, the Kremlin was taking away civil liberties and feeding the population a revamped and increasingly more aggressive version of nationalism. For nearly a decade, most Russians didn't seem to care.

This statement is delivered on behalf of Human Rights Watch, an international non-governmental organization that investigates and reports on human rights abuses happening in all corners of the world.

Residents of the village of Sosva have been losing their homes to forest fires for years.  In the most recent major incident in April, a wildfire destroyed 130 houses, killed two individuals and left 659 people homeless in this village in the Sverdlovsk region.

(Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it was banning the Human Rights House Foundation, an Oslo-based non-profit group, accusing it of fomenting social discord in the country.

UN observers appeal for greater access to Zaporizhzhia plant; man who detonated explosives in Kyiv courthouse dies

As the war enters its 498th day, these are the main developments.

Russia accused a small U.S.-based charity on Wednesday of "sabotaging" the construction of a huge gas pipeline to China and banned it as an "undesirable organisation".

UNESCO warns Mongolia and Russia about threats to critical transboundary waterways.