In July alone, Andrei Badalov, the vice-president of state-owned pipeline company Transneft, fell to his death from a balcony ...

The grueling war in Ukraine has upended the delicate balance of power in Russia as the Kremlin desperately tries to support ...

Long tolerant of corruption, the Kremlin leader is now targeting those he believes have taken too much and undermined his war ...

The reported suicide of Russia’s transport minister hours after he was dismissed by President Vladimir Putin and amid speculation he would be arrested on corruption charges, has shocked the country’s ...

Russia continues a string of high-profile arrests, convictions and mysterious deaths that paralyze even the highest levels of ...

Vladimir Putin's crackdown on corruption and opposition to his war in Ukraine has seen a number of Kremlin officials die in ...

President Putin sacked his transport minister. Hours later, his body was found in a park with a gunshot wound to the head.

Soldatov said that along this path was the 2008 war in Georgia, which showed the Russian army would not be humiliated anymore. The illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 inflated that sense of pride.

Women in Russia had previously come out in numbers of protest domestic violence, such as in St. Petersburg in 2019. But in 2021, Putin decriminalized domestic violence. / Anton Vaganov/Reuters ...