A year after Alexei Navalny's suspicious death in a Russian prison, his supporters have been helping choose a headstone for his grave in Moscow. "It will be a place of hope and strength for all those ...

What went wrong? In recent months, a debate has erupted among Russian opposition figures about responsibility for the failure of the post-Soviet democratic transition. Several months before his ...

Following the Freedom House report where Russia occupies the record low 183rd place in global ratings of political and civil freedoms, VOA Russian spoke to human rights activists who painted a ...

So did Russia's democratic opposition and its dream of change ... sprawled beneath fairy lights in the colours of the Russian flag, marked the start of a dark new era. Navalny did his best to ...