Darina Shevchenko is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Some of the teens who were among the hundreds of detained protesters at demonstrations in September talked to RFE/RL about how the authorities have handled their cases and how they and their parents have been threatened and harassed.
One Moscow high-school student has gone public about her campus interrogation by antiextremism police -- one of a growing number of cases of police nominally fighting terrorism but in fact pressuring youths for their politics.
A respected patients-rights group in the Volga region city of Saratov could face closure as local authorities accuse it of violating Russia's notorious "foreign-agents" law.
A school official in Russia's Far East has warned a 9th-grader and his family over his support for opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, the latest incident showing pressure on dissenting voices in schools across the nation.
A former orderly at a Russian psychiatric hospital is facing threats and intimidation after he complained to the authorities about rampant abuse, even torture, at the facility.
Although Russia's current Duma campaign is as strictly managed an affair as previous ones under President Vladimir Putin, it is notable for one landmark: It is the first time in modern Russian history that openly gay men have run for the nation's legislature.
A pensioner from southern Russia made headlines earlier this month by filing a lawsuit that named President Vladimir Putin as an "enemy of the people" and calling for his removal. Now everyone wants to know what motivates him.
A close friend of Vlad Kolesnikov, the Russian teenager whose suicide sent shock waves across Russia, says his own life has unraveled since the pair staged several pro-Ukraine protests last year.
