Russia’s Justice Ministry and the pro-Kremlin television channel NTV have launched a major attack aimed at destroying one of the most important human rights organizations now active in Russia

In the latest of many moves aimed at reinstating bloody dictator Joseph Stalin, the speech he made soon after Nazi Germany invaded the USSR is to be included on a list of main sources for senior students to study

Pavel Shekhtman, a well-known civic activist and critic of the current Russian regime has been detained in Moscow with the investigators’ interest in him apparently prompted by his publications in social networks

A Russian activist in a Putin mask, striped prison clothes and with a sign reading ‘WAR CRIMINAL’ was released without charges on Tuesday, after one headline read: “War Criminal Putin detained in Moscow”. Other events for Putin’s 62nd birthday on Oct 7 were much more nauseating

Three Krasnodar residents who tried to hold a peaceful march in support of ‘federalization for Kuban’ have been placed on Russia’s Federal List of Terrorists and Extremists. One is presently in custody, two have fled the country.

At least three representatives of small ethnic minorities in Russia have been attacked or otherwise prevented from leaving for a conference on indigenous peoples, This comes at the same time as the attack on Crimean Tatar scholar Nadir Bekir.

Russian border guards in the early hours of Sept 12 took Ukrainian national Olha Skrypnyk and her husband Vissarion Aseyev, a Russian national, off the train from Moscow to Odessa

With it becoming increasingly hard to hide the number of Russian soldiers being sent to Ukraine to fight and the return of many in coffins, Kremlin-controlled media have for the first time mentioned the subject in carefully doctored and manipulative reports

A new Russian draft law would prevent NGOs labelled as ‘foreign agents’ from using any money received through grants to pay salaries. The move is clearly aimed at stifling the work of, for example, Memorial and the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers currently trying to find out about Russian soldiers sent to fight Russia’s undeclared war in Ukraine

Il est frustrant que la BBC et les autres médias qui insistent sur l’expression "selon l’Ukraine" quand ils évoquent la présence de l’armée russe sur le sol ukrainien ignorent non seulement les preuves irréfutables apportées par l’OTAN, les USA et les médias polonais, mais aussi les compte-rendus nous parvenant de Russie malgré tous les efforts des autorités pour les passer sous silence.

A transcript published by the newspaper Pskovskaya Guberniya appears to confirm that from 70 to as many as 140 Russian paratroopers from a Pskov division were killed fighting Russia’s undeclared war in Ukraine

If independent expert Yury Saveliev is right, federal troops used grenades against a school with over 1100 hostages. 334 people died, including 186 children, almost all because of the explosions and resulting fire, or shot when the troops stormed

73% of Russians continue to believe the Crimea “should be part of the Russian Federation”, however the percentage of those willing to pay the price for this has dropped from 59 to 50%

It is frustrating that the BBC and other media which insist on speaking of “Ukrainian claims” that Russian forces are fighting in Ukraine ignore not only the clear evidence from NATO, the USA and Polish media, but also the reports from the mothers of Russian conscripts emerging despite the authorities efforts to silence them.

10 years have passed since the seizure by terrorists of a school in Beslan, North Ossetia and the subsequent storming of the school with the use of tanks and heavy artillery. 331 people were killed, including 15-year-old Oksana Kokova

On Sunday prominent Russian writer and journalist Viktor Shenderovich held a one-man picket in protest at Russia’s undeclared but ever more aggressive war against Ukraine. Six others who lit candles in protest were detained for some time by the police.

Lev Shlosberg, an opposition politician and journalist in Pskov was seriously attacked late on Friday evening, days after he divulged information about the Pskov paratroopers whose death in Ukraine Russia has been trying to conceal.

On 28 August, the Russian Ministry of Justice added the NGO “Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg” to its official list of “foreign agents” under the 2012 law.

It looks extremely likely that at least some of the considerable number of men from the Caucuses long known to be fighting on the side of the Kremlin-backed militants in eastern Ukraine are or died as soldiers of the Russian Army.

Russians are also now asking hard-hitting questions as macabre efforts continue in Pskov and other parts of Russia to conceal the death or injury of a large number of soldiers sent to fight Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine