Buryatia, the most impoverished region of Russia, has run out of divorce certificate forms as it is witnessing an unprecedented surge in the number of families falling apart.
Anti-war sentiment continues to grow inside Russia, as the death toll rises among soldiers from some of Russia's most ethnically marginalised and poorest peoples, reports Dick Nichols.
More members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation have stepped forward to oppose President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, a stance differing sharply from the party leadership, which backs what the Kremlin is still calling a “special military operation.