Totalitarianism works in three ways: it kills people, it kills will, and it kills memory. Vladimir Putin’s regime is more selective about its targets than its Soviet predecessor was, but it uses the ...

People in Moscow have commemorated late opposition politician Boris Nemtsov who was shot dead in the Russian capital nine years ago, despite the considerable risk of arrest. People were laying flowers ...

Prosecutors had sought a life sentence for Zaur Dadayev, a former officer in the security force of the Russian province of Chechnya. The triggerman in the drive-by murder of Russian opposition leader ...

"It has never been more dangerous to be a political critic" Not far from the Kremlin, people lay fresh flowers and candles at the edge of the bridge. It’s the site where Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia’s ...

Demonstrators march in Moscow in February to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. (Pavel Golovkin/AP) On Thursday, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of ...

In “The Successor,” the exiled journalist Mikhail Fishman tells the story of a charming Russian politician who might have made his country into a liberal democracy. By David Kortava This was featured ...

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The murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov on Feb. 27, 2015, has never been fully solved. A Chechen man was convicted of pulling the trigger when Nemtsov was shot four times near the ...

When a group of politicians in Prague decided to honor the murdered Russian dissident Boris Nemtsov by naming a square after him, there was just one location they had in mind: The plaza in front of ...

The Moscow branch of the ruling United Russia party has raised eyebrows with a social media video that features the 7-year-old son of former Deputy Prime Minister and opposition politician Boris ...

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia -- In 1988, three years before the Soviet Union collapsed, residents of Gorky, a city 400 kilometers east of Moscow, gathered on the central square in protest against plans to ...