Some do it for the money; others for the motherland. Still others because they “just don’t have anything else to do.” Whatever their motivation, an unknown number of Siberia’s homeless have signed ...

As the fierce winter drags towards an end in Russia’s second city of Saint Petersburg, Eduard Okuniyev is counting himself lucky to still be alive. For six years he has been living rough on the ...

A criminal gang in Russia been accused of stealing recruitment payments for homeless people they forced to sign on to fight in the war in Ukraine. The scam in the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions ...

A rare public protest erupted in Russia’s Kursk Oblast this week as local families confronted officials over the sudden end of financial support meant to help them rebuild their homes, Meduza and The ...