Life expectancy in Russia has decreased by almost seven months, and it is because of war and strong alcohol, a Russian demographer has said. Alexey Raksha, who specializes in fertility and mortality ...

Today, we have an important piece of the puzzle that we started to put together a year and a half ago about the nature of Pavel Durov's relationship with the Russian authorities. In December 2023, the ...

In recent weeks, there’s been a sharp uptick in reports about new additions to Russia’s list of “terrorists and extremists.” Increasingly, the list includes not militants or separatists but ordinary ...