Valerie Hopkins

Rights activists worry that the separation of a teenage girl and her father after they criticized the war in Ukraine might signal a toughening of...

The case of Olesya Krivtsova, a Russian student who ended up on the Kremlin’s official terrorist list, has underscored the perils of using social media to criticize...

An 84-year-old artist, defying Moscow’s crackdown on dissent, wants his country to acknowledge misdeeds both past and present.

An unidentified gunman entered a school in the city of Izhevsk, killing two security guards, two teachers and at least five minors, according to federal...

In Belgorod, 25 miles from Ukraine, recent losses by Russia’s military have brought home the reality of the war in a way not present elsewhere...

Demonstrations against a law related to new license plates for ethnic Serbs in Kosovo led to gunfire on Sunday, leading to concerns that the violence...

For opposition figures choosing to stay in Russia after President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, imprisonment looks like a matter of time. It’s also...

A slew of international agencies are joining Ukrainian prosecutors to look into accusations of war crimes. It may be the biggest effort ever to hold...

Women who were attacked in a village near Kyiv yearn for justice. “I want them to be punished,” said one victim. But Ukrainian officials face...