Many victims of Stalin’s gulag are still unable to return to their families’ hometowns. Despite a court order, Moscow isn’t helping them.
Tag: Putin, Vladimir V
Russia Says It Is Slowing Access to Twitter
Moscow accused the social network of failing to remove content it deemed illegal. Soon after, a raft of government websites suffered a short outage.
Biden Administration Announces Sanctions on Russia in Navalny Case
The action came as the administration declassified an intelligence finding that the F.S.B., one of Russia’s leading intelligence agencies, was responsible for the poisoning of Aleksei A. Navalny.
Your Wednesday Briefing
Syria’s economy in distress.
Looking for Something New in Russia’s ‘New People’ Party
Critics see an old trick, a phony opposition group blessed by the Kremlin as an alternative to the movement spawned by Aleksei A. Navalny.
Your Monday Briefing
The Schengen Area closes up.
China Censors the Internet. So Why Doesn’t Russia?
The Kremlin has constructed an entire infrastructure of repression but has not displaced Western apps. Instead, it is turning to outright intimidation.
Can Russia Deliver on Its Covid Vaccine Promises to the World?
The Kremlin has scored propaganda points and bolstered several longstanding foreign policy goals by offering its Sputnik V vaccine around the world. But it has limited production capacity.
Israel and Syria Complete a Prisoner Swap, Mediated by Russia
An Israeli woman in her 20s was allowed to leave Syria for Russia, after Israel returned two captured shepherds to Syria.
Lukashenko Jails 2 Journalists in Belarus for Covering Protests
After crushing mass demonstrations calling for his ouster, President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko has engaged in a broad crackdown on dissent and stepped up retaliation against critics.