Melanie Bachina is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Russian Service.
TV2 in Tomsk, Siberia, was one of the last free and independent regional media outlets in Russia. But the company's unfettered journalism was not in sync with the country's increasingly restrictive political climate. The story illustrates both the power of a free press and how it can be silenced.
TV2 in Tomsk, Siberia, was one of the last free and independent regional media outlets in Russia. But the company's unfettered journalism was not in sync with the country's increasingly restrictive political climate. The station's broadcasts were shut down at the end of 2014.
Dissident artist Pyotr Pavlensky talks to RFE/RL about what prompted him to take up political art, and how he sees his political stunts as a rejection of a pervasive "clerical" ideology.
A Siberian museum of political repression is hosting a unique exhibition of letters from prisoners in the Soviet Gulag. In many cases, these letters are the last traces these men left on Earth.
As children across the world prepare to head back to school, those displaced by the fighting in eastern Ukraine are bracing for their first day of school -- far away from home.
