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 ...

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 ...

Aug. 5, 2024, update: This story has been updated to include post-release interviews with Aleksandra “Sasha” Skochilenko and her girlfriend, Sonia Subbotina. Last week’s historic prisoner swap with ...

A St. Petersburg court of appeals on July 2 extended the three-year prison term of documentary director Vsevolod Korolyov, known for his anti-war stance, to seven years, the court press service said.

If you walked into a theater showing Laura Warner’s “The Cranes Call” by accident, two things would happen. First, you’d probably assume it was a David Fincher movie for several minutes, given its ...

DALLAS — The Russian invasion of Ukraine will reach the one-year mark on February 24 and President Joe Biden acknowledged the on-going struggle with his unannounced visit to Ukraine this week. War is ...

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 ...

Documentaries about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are nothing new. PBS, Sean Penn and the BBC have all produced substantive films in the first 2½ years of the conflict. There aren’t, however, a lot of ...