It was a fateful time to embark on a documentary about journalists dedicated to independent reporting in Putin’s Russia; within a few months of Loktev’s arrival, Putin launched his full-scale invasion ...

LONDON, England – It has been of the most sensational stories circulating on Russian independent media channels in recent weeks - perhaps even since the war in Ukraine began. A young Russian ...

As the chances of President Donald Trump’s peace deal in Ukraine seemingly recede, attention turns back to the question of Vladimir Putin and his war aims. What does the Russian president want to ...

A new documentary film from Anastasia Trofimova is being slammed as an attempt to justify Moscow's war crimes in Ukraine. Courtesy of TIFF A documentary accused of portraying Russian soldiers as ...

Immediately after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky made a bold prediction. Ukraine, the country he documented in his 2015 ...

The movie tells the story of marine biologist Maxim Chikalev's field season on the Arctic Ocean’s coast in Chukotka NEW YORK, January 24. /TASS/. The documentary Haulout shot by Maxim and Evgenia ...

In his valuable new book, The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman argues that our world is dominated by populist leaders who are destroying democracy, in part by making a cult of their own leadership ...

As Vladimir Putin wages his misbegotten war on Ukraine, there’s another, quieter war he’s prosecuting, this one against a 46-year-old man who sits in a Russian prison, in solitary confinement, on ...

ST.PETERSBURG -- A court in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, has arrested a well-known documentary filmmaker, Vsevolod Korolyov, for allegedly "disseminating fake news" about the Russian ...

Julia Loktev’s documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow enters Oscar shortlist voting with incredible momentum. On Sunday, the film was ...

Of course, Putin isn't shy about attacking his own citizens either. Among his top targets is Alexei Navalny, the charismatic, media-savvy dissident who's been so forceful in calling out the Kremlin's ...