He has reached out to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, asking about their whereabouts, the conditions of their detention and urging for their immediate safe return to ...

On a steamy August afternoon in Washington, D.C., the National Guard was on its way and Julia Ioffe arrived for lunch at a strip mall in the suburbs. Ioffe, 43, a Russian American journalist, said the ...

Julia Ioffe's Russia. The emigre and author's debut book, Motherland, has been greatly anticipated. Here, she's seen in the PBS "Frontline" documentary "Putin and the Presidents" (2023). In less ...

When diving into the history of the Soviet Union and modern Russia, one expects to encounter the towering figures of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Vladimir Putin. But in “Motherland,” ...

Aliya Ozdamirova, the daughter of a former Chechen deputy sports minister, was buried in her home republic of Chechnya on Nov. 12. Ozdamirova had escaped to Georgia weeks earlier after reporting abuse ...

I met Alina Rotenberg in the summer of 2012. At thirty-six, she was no longer married, but her last name spoke volumes in Moscow: her ex-husband, Igor, was the son of Arkady Rotenberg, one of Vladimir ...

These newly assumed positions have had positive impacts on gender dynamics and women’s position in society. The “cult of berehynia”, the notion of Ukrainian women as the home protectress, has weakened ...

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KYIV and KHARKIV, Ukraine — Maryna Mytsiuk spends her free time at a shooting range outside Kyiv, hyper-focused on hitting her targets. She's got to practice. She's waiting for a call that, any day, ...

ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, Ukraine — The Ukrainian soldiers sat huddled in their dark dugout, all focus and nerve — Viktoriia’s eyes shifting frantically between two screens, Tetiana’s hands clutching a ...