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Reporter has been labeled 'foreign agent' by Moscow since 2021 

Washington - A Russian Israeli freelance journalist who has been labeled a ldquoforeign agentrdquo by Moscow said Wednesday that he was banned from en

The majority of Lithuanians do not miss Russian TV programmes, but 14 per cent still watch them, according to a survey c...

In an unusual move, a court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria acquitted a Jehovah's Witness in an extremism case.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on May 3 that its officers had "liquidated" an agent from Ukraine's military intelligence who had allegedly arrived from Lithuania to carry out "terrorist acts" against military and energy objects in the Moscow and Leningrad regions.

A military court in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on May 3 sentenced anti-war activist Angel Nikolayev to 15 years in prison on a charge of arson against a military recruitment center, desecration of Russia's national flag, and vandalism.

Captain Eduard Ulman of Russia's military intelligence, who was sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison for shooting to death six Chechen civilians in 2002, has been killed in the war in Ukraine.

Suppression of press freedom has been on the rise over the past year in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where governments with increasingly authoritarian tendencies have taken after Russia's example, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in their annual media world ranking published on May 3.

Chechnya's Moscow-backed authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov says he has appointed his 16-year-old son as supervisor at a Chechen special forces training school in Gudermes.

Konstantin Gabov and Sergei Karelin, who has worked for the Associated Press, are charged over accusations they prepared videos for a YouTube channel linked to organization founded by late opposition politician Alexey Navalny