A number of repressive laws have been introduced in Russia since the begining of the invasion of Ukraine, including two laws, one criminal and one administrative, that essentially criminalize independent reporting on the war and virtually any protests against it.

Amendments to Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code to "protect the Armed Forces"

Russia has ordered the closure of three Baltic consulates Thursday and ordered the expulsion of all their non-Russian staff in retaliation to similar moves by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

The Estonian and Lithuanian consulates in St. Petersburg, as well as the Latvian consulates in St. Petersburg and Pskov, will now have to close. The consuls

Vagit Alekperov, the longtime head of Russia’s Lukoil, has stepped down from his post and resigned from the board of directors after 29 years, the oil giant said in a statement Thursday.

Alekperov became Lukoil’s president in 1993, steering one of the world’s largest oil producers through most of Russia’s modern history. The oil tycoon, reportedly R

A Russian court on Thursday slapped a series of small fines on Google for failing to take down contentious YouTube videos about the Kremlin's military operation in Ukraine.

The Moscow court ordered the U.S. tech behemoth to pay a total of 11 million rubles ($135,000) for ignoring the state media regulator's orders to remove posts alleging heavy