Karina Merkuryeva is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Here's what some people from Russia's already beleaguered LGBT community had to say in response to a Supreme Court ruling declaring the "international LGBT social movement" extremist.
For several years, a growing online community called "Male State" has been targeting Russian women, feminists, LGBTs, and migrants in a bid to promote a racist and misogynist far-right ideology.
With Russia increasingly going into lockdown amid the growing coronavirus pandemic, grocery clerks, delivery drivers, and others remain on the job -- sometimes without the supplies and instructions they need to keep themselves and others safe.
A powerful committee in the Russian State Duma has urged the legislature to adopt a bill that would allow prisoners to apply to be transferred to prisons closer to their relatives. Currently many convicts go years without visits because their families can't afford to travel thousands of kilometers to the remote prisons where they are held.
