Does the Russian secret service have a file on US President Donald Trump? To what extent are Russian interests present within American foreign policy?

Russia's Justice Ministry on Friday declared DW journalist Alexander Smirnov a "foreign agent." The ministry said that Smirnov had participated in the creation and distribution of content for "foreign ...

Controversy arose at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 5 following the screening of a documentary film that attempts to humanize Russian soldiers involved in the war against Ukraine. Russian-Canadian ...

Two former DW journalists, Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin, along with two other journalists, have been sentenced to several years in prison in Russia on charges of extremism, that they denied. A ...

Some residents have remained even as Russian troops threaten to take full control of Kupiansk. The longer they wait. the more dangerous it becomes to evacuate them. DW spoke with internally displaced ...

In the opening moments of the 2022, Oscar-winning documentary Navalny, Russian opposition leader Alexei Nalvany is asked by the film's director about the possibility of him dying. Nalvany avoids ...

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 ...

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 ...