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At least 15 media workers have been killed in Ukraine since Russia began its full-scale war in February 2022. Along with targeting civilians, hospitals, schools, orphanages, residential buildings, communications centres and places of worship, the Russian state has been accused by the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine of deliberately…

Kitty Flanagan is sublime in an Aussie legal comedy, while a journalist risks all in Russia. Plus, the Sex and the City crew wind up another series, and a rather average new thriller

From poisonings to shootings to falls from windows and now possibly plane crashes, Kremlin has been accused of numerous lethal attacks

Over the years, Kremlin political critics, turncoat spies and journalists have been killed in a variety of ways

On the morning of July 4, Elena Milashina, a journalist with the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and Alexandre Nemov, a lawyer, were beaten on their way to a trial in Grozny, Chechnya. Images document the extreme violence of the attack. According to the Crew Against Torture, a Russian human…

Exclusive: Film-maker Miriam Segal says article made her feel compelled to tell story of anti-Putin journalist murdered in 2006

It’s difficult to exaggerate the importance of the inclusion of the Memorial Society, the Russian human rights movement, among the recipients of this year’s Nobel peace prize, which also recognised human rights campaigners in Ukraine and Belarus.

Since Vladimir Putin first came to power, many of his critics and supporters have died in strange and violent circumstances. But the fiery death of Darya Dugina is different.

Nobel Peace Prize winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov has auctioned off his gold medal for $103.5 million (£84 million) to raise money for refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.

Russia’s leading independent newspaper has suspended operations under pressure from the authorities

A number of high profile critics of Vladimir Putin have died in violent or mysterious circumstances. This includes Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned in London after drinking a laced cup of tea