Sentsov, a pro-Ukrainian activist and documentary director, was detained in Crimea in 2014 after Russia annexed it
Russia articles on Democracy Chronicles
News about the struggle for democracy in Russia. Russia is not a functioning democracy. According to Freedom House, "limited political competition, assassination, and repression are used by dictator Vladimir Putin to maintain control". Also see our articles on Putin or on two of his public opponents Alexei Navalny and the punk band Pussy Riot.
Anti-Putin Journalist Shot and Killed in Ukrainian Capital
Police in the capital of Ukraine say a Russian journalist has been shot and killed at his Kyiv apartment
Moscow Court Orders Navalny Jailed Again Over Protests
A Moscow court has ordered Russia’s most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny to serve 30 days in prison
GOP-led Senate Panel Confirms Russian Election Meddling in 2016
The committee’s investigation had shown Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help Donald Trump
Transatlantic Election Commission Founded to Focus on Hacking
An international commission has formed to try to end meddling in elections in Western democratic nations
New Revealing Info Details Tennessee Election Hacking Attack
Investigators found evidence of a “malicious intrusion” into a Tennessee county’s elections website
Comparing Armenia’s Velvet Revolution With Ukraine, Georgia
Protests have been building for the last two weeks over an alleged power grab by the former prime minister
Few Answers in Bizarre Case of Russian Influence at the NRA
Someone needs to get to the bottom of a Russian oligarch’s funding of the NRA gun rights group
DNC Lawsuit Blames Election Loss on Trump-Russia Alliance
DNC sued President Donald Trump’s campaign, Trump’s son, his son-in-law, the Russian Federation and Wikileaks
Russia Blocking Millions of IP Addresses in Mass Crackdown
From Voice of America: The chief of the Russian communications watchdog acknowledged Wednesday that millions of unrelated IP addresses have been frozen in a so-far futile attempt to block a popular messaging app. Telegram, the messaging app that was ordered to be blocked last week, was still available to users in Russia despite authorities’ frantic […]