Novosibirsk city councilman Sergey Boyko, the former head of Alexey Navalny's local campaign office, has traveled abroad with his family and decided not to return to Russia.

President Vladimir Putin has fired Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Director Alexander Kalashnikov, the Kremlin announced on Thursday November 25.

The Russian State Duma has voted to remove the immunity of veteran Communist Party (KPRF) lawmaker Valery Rashkin, Interfax reported on Thursday, November 25.

Jailed former Khabarovsk Krai governor Sergey Furgal was indicted in two new criminal cases, his lawyer told RIA Novosti on Wednesday, November 24.

Russia registered a new version of its "Sputnik" coronavirus vaccine for children aged 12 to 17, the Gamaleya Research Institute confirmed on Wednesday, November 24.

The migration crisis on the border of Belarus and the European Union has been going on for months. Thousands of asylum seekers from Middle Eastern and African countries remain stranded in the Eastern European country. Some of them have made several unsuccessful attempts to cross the border into the EU. Seeing no other way out, many have already given up hope and decided to return to their home countries. Reporting from Minsk, Meduza asks migrants stuck in limbo what made them leave their homelands, why they want to get to the European Union, and what they plan to do next.

Irina Fatyanova, the former head of Alexey Navalny's St. Petersburg campaign headquarters, has revealed that she left Russia about a week ago.

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has filed another lawsuit against the administration of the prison where he is being held, the state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday, November 24.

A new joint investigation by iStories and Novaya Gazeta assesses allegations that "foreign agent" media outlets are responsible for "deliberately criminalizing" migrants in news coverage. In late September, a senior police official leveled this accusation, implying that foreign funding fuels popular mischaracterizations of Russia's migrant community. To test this theory, iStories and Novaya Gazeta used neural network analysis to map the sentiments most often attributed to migrants in news reports over the past two years by Telegram's most popular pro-government channels (Karaulny, RT, Readovka, Solovyov, Mash, RIA Novosti, and Lenta) and "foreign agent" channels (Meduza, Dozhd, and Mediazona). The evidence contradicts the Interior Ministry's claims.

In mid-November, the State Duma received a package of bills that would require Russians to present QR-code vaccine passports in order to take flights and trains, and access public events, stores, cafes, and restaurants. The two draft laws were submitted by the Russian Cabinet and had the potential to enter force as soon as February 1, 2022. Now, all these plans have stalled -- as it turns out, the legislation won't go to the Duma floor for a vote for another month. Meduza sheds light on the high-level tensions behind this delay.