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Interview

‘The civilians who support the war may be more culpable than most of the soldiers’

What the just war theory can tell us about the Russian invasion in Ukraine: Jeff McMahan, a philosopher at the University of Oxford, explains

Alyona Itskova-16 hours ago

Stories

Ukraine hands over wounded prisoners to Russia

Look at these photos

Georgy Aleksandrov-12 hours ago

Data

How Russia seizes Ukrainian businesses on occupied territories

Thousands of companies in Mariupol, Melitopol, and other occupied cities have been re-registered in Russia. Novaya-Europe investigates

Daria Talanova, Sergey Teplyakov, Antonina Asanova-day ago

Breaking

9 hours ago

Ukraine requests UN Security Council session after Putin’s words about deploying tactical nukes in Belarus

Report

‘The thing I miss the most? Freedom’

Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh talk about their lives under the ongoing blockade by Azerbaijani ‘eco-activists’

Irina Tumakova-2 days ago

Podcast

Eyes of War

Three stories told by Ukrainian photojournalist Daniil Russov

Video department Novaya Gazeta Europe-3 days ago

Breaking

11 hours ago

‘He buried the Russian nation’: audio of Russian music producer Prigozhin and Azerbaijani oligarch Akhmedov allegedly criticising Putin leaks online

Comment

Laws against humanity

Dmitry Glukhovsky, author of Metro 2033, writes a speech for the Russian court where he is tried in absentia for speaking out against the war

Dmitry Glukhovsky-4 days ago

Report

Nobel Peace Prize winning organisation Memorial targeted by Russian government

Another wave of repressions and a new criminal case against Memorial. Reporting from Moscow

Sofia Orlova-4 days ago

Breaking

12 hours ago

Explosion reported in Russian town of Kireyevsk, at least three people wounded

Comment

Chechen roots of France’s wrestling team

France only fielded Chechens with French citizenship to the 2023 European U23 Wrestling Championships. How did it happen and why are some in Russia not happy about it?

Zara Murtazalieva-4 days ago

Opinion

Xi-dependent relationship

What will Russia be left with after playing the role of China’s ‘little brother’?

Arnold Khachaturov-5 days ago

Breaking

12 hours ago

Head of Ukrainian President’s Office Yermak: Russian missile strike hits two multi-storey buildings in Avdiivka

Interview

Will Putin ever stand trial in The Hague?

We asked legal expert Gleb Bogush what the ICC arrest warrant means for the Russian president

Irina Tumakova-week ago

Opinion

Russia’s moral decay

Why people who are ready and willing to pull any nasty trick in the book at the regime’s behest are actually victims here, and who’s the worst among them

Leonid Gozman-6 days ago

Breaking

15 hours ago

UK Ministry of Defence: Russian army launched at least 71 Shahed drones against Ukraine in March so far

Comment

Decivilising Russia

Sociologist Svetlana Stephenson explains how the criminal culture of security forces and racketeers among the elites has pushed Russian society towards militaristic madness

Svetlana Stephenson-week ago

Stories

Russia’s military expenditures doubled so far in 2023. What was this money spent on?

Novaya-Europe analyses the data that has been made public

Sergey Teplyakov-week ago

Breaking

16 hours ago

‘They threatened to shoot us if we didn’t advance’ — Russian soldiers deployed near Ukraine’s Vuhledar ask Putin for help

Stories

Wartime miracle

A story with a happy ending about Ukrainian child refugee Arsenii Kolesnik

Ekaterina Glikman-week ago

Comment

Why Kyiv wants to rename Russia into Muscovy: three key reasons

Alexander Orlov breaks down the history behind this proposal

Alexander Orlov-week ago

Opinion

Why we shouldn’t expect the Russian economy to collapse tomorrow

Head of Novaya-Europe’s data team Arnold Khachaturov explains

Arnold Khachaturov-week ago

Opinion

Executing POWs: another manifestation of Russia’s fascist nature

Leonid Gozman analyses why the Russian state considers itself more important than any human being

Leonid Gozman-week ago

Stories

‘That war ended, and this one will too’

Diaries from Kherson. People living on both banks — the occupied and the liberated — of the Dnipro River describe their daily reality

Olga Vasileva-week ago

Interview

‘The fear of Stalin has been crucial to forming Putin’s ideology’

How has Stalinism helped form modern-day Russia? An interview with Andrea Graziosi, Soviet historian

Darya Kozlova-2 weeks ago

Data

Russia’s fake refugee haven

The Russian government is lying about the number of Ukrainian refugees in the country: Civic Assistance Committee’s research

Anastasia Karyakina, Ksenia Zinder-2 weeks ago

Stories

Child separation: Kremlin invents new torture for activists

Russian law enforcement has devised another way to punish political activists: their children are taken away — even if they are sick or disabled

Elena Romanova-2 weeks ago

Interview

‘If you go to war with somebody, you don’t keep your money in their pocket’

Russia might lose trillions of dollars due to the invasion of Ukraine, a leading scholar on inequality and globalisation Branko Milanović estimates

Alyona Itskova-2 weeks ago

Investigations

Gazprom: Russia’s state corruption giant

A money-laundering scheme and a luxury hotel in Montenegro may be tied to the mysterious death of a top Gazprom manager. An investigation by Novaya-Europe and Transparency

Alisa Kashperskaya, Ilya Shumanov-2 weeks ago

Comment

‘Real men vs scum’: How Vladimir Putin split Russia in two

Leonid Gozman on Putin’s crusade to subdue and divide the Russian society

Leonid Gozman-2 weeks ago

Stories

Woman from Russia’s Dagestan shares her ‘homosexuality treatment’ story

A monologue by a victim of conversion therapy in a rehab for drug addicts, homosexuals, and atheists

Lidiya Mikhalchenko-2 weeks ago

Report

How did ‘partial mobilisation’ affect residents of Russia’s Siberia?

Locals can barely afford firewood, while families are waiting for draftees taken away to fight in Ukraine

Ivan Zhilin, Anna Artemyeva-3 weeks ago

Stories

School of patriotism: Kremlin seeks to force parents to sit through propaganda lessons

Novaya-Europe asks parents of different political views what they think about the initiative

Yekaterina Krasotkina-3 weeks ago

Stories

Ukrainian drones near Moscow: why can’t Russian air defence fully repel these attacks?

Novaya-Europe talks to experts about recent drone attacks on Russian territory

Nikita Kondratyev-3 weeks ago

Stories

Russia accuses ‘Ukrainian saboteurs’ of breaching border region. What we know so far

Putin branded the events a ‘terrorist attack’. The Russian Volunteer Corps claimed responsibility for it

Novaya Gazeta Europe-3 weeks ago

Interview

‘I hope he has found peace’

Mikhail Gorbachev’s stenographer shares stories of working with the first and last president of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev’s birthday was on 2 March

3 weeks ago

Stories

‘My sister and I went through all the morgues’

Thousands of Russian soldiers have been reported MIA in Ukraine. Russia’s Defence Ministry is not in a hurry to help relatives find the bodies: Novaya-Europe’s research

Daria Talanova-3 weeks ago

Data

Dead end

In the past 10 months, Russia managed to only capture about 4% of Donbas. Troops are basically treading water while losses are mounting. Novaya Gazeta Europe dissects Russia’s war effort in Ukraine

Antonina Asanova, Lyubov Borisenko-3 weeks ago

Data

Putin’s ‘henchmen’

Some members of the European Parliament continuously refuse to back resolutions against the Ukraine war. Novaya-Europe reveals their names and their connections with Russia

Olesya Avilova, Andrey Zayakin, Mikhail Komin-3 weeks ago

Comment

Grim anniversary

Sombre reflections after the first 365 days of the war in Ukraine

Leonid Gozman-4 weeks ago

Interview

‘American hearts bleed for Ukraine, but we also bleed for all Russian families affected by this war’

An interview with Victoria Nuland, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Kirill Martynov-month ago

Stories

А Chain of Wars, a Chain of Crimes, a Chain of Impunity

Russian Wars in Chechnya, Syria, and Ukraine: Report by Human Rights Centre Memorial

Memorial Human Rights Centre-month ago

Articles of the month

Report

After Bucha

Here, everyone remembers everything and waits for the culprits to be punished. There are more than enough witnesses. Olga Musafirova reports from Bucha, town of martyrs and heroes

Olga Musafirova-month ago

Report

Oversung hero

This is how Russia makes up stories about war heroes: a report from the home village of gunner Obukhov, killed in a drunken shootout in Kherson

Novaya Gazeta Europe-month ago

Interview

‘How to reduce the power of a petrostate? Get off fossil fuels as quickly as we can’

One of the main lessons from the war in Ukraine is that the world needs to finally ‘go green’, climate justice expert Naomi Klein says

Alyona Itskova-month ago

Comment

Military makeover

The Kremlin is transforming the Russian economy to meet its war needs. Will it help Putin to win the long fight?

Darya Kozlova-month ago

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‘The civilians who support the war may be more culpable than most of the soldiers’

Ukraine hands over wounded prisoners to Russia

How Russia seizes Ukrainian businesses on occupied territories

Ukraine requests UN Security Council session after Putin’s words about deploying tactical nukes in Belarus

‘The thing I miss the most? Freedom’

Eyes of War

‘He buried the Russian nation’: audio of Russian music producer Prigozhin and Azerbaijani oligarch Akhmedov allegedly criticising Putin leaks online

Laws against humanity

Nobel Peace Prize winning organisation Memorial targeted by Russian government

Explosion reported in Russian town of Kireyevsk, at least three people wounded

Chechen roots of France’s wrestling team

Xi-dependent relationship

Head of Ukrainian President’s Office Yermak: Russian missile strike hits two multi-storey buildings in Avdiivka

Will Putin ever stand trial in The Hague?

Russia’s moral decay

UK Ministry of Defence: Russian army launched at least 71 Shahed drones against Ukraine in March so far

Decivilising Russia

Russia’s military expenditures doubled so far in 2023. What was this money spent on?

‘They threatened to shoot us if we didn’t advance’ — Russian soldiers deployed near Ukraine’s Vuhledar ask Putin for help

Wartime miracle

Why Kyiv wants to rename Russia into Muscovy: three key reasons

Why we shouldn’t expect the Russian economy to collapse tomorrow

Executing POWs: another manifestation of Russia’s fascist nature

‘That war ended, and this one will too’

‘The fear of Stalin has been crucial to forming Putin’s ideology’

Russia’s fake refugee haven

Child separation: Kremlin invents new torture for activists

‘If you go to war with somebody, you don’t keep your money in their pocket’

Gazprom: Russia’s state corruption giant

‘Real men vs scum’: How Vladimir Putin split Russia in two

Woman from Russia’s Dagestan shares her ‘homosexuality treatment’ story

How did ‘partial mobilisation’ affect residents of Russia’s Siberia?

School of patriotism: Kremlin seeks to force parents to sit through propaganda lessons

Ukrainian drones near Moscow: why can’t Russian air defence fully repel these attacks?

Russia accuses ‘Ukrainian saboteurs’ of breaching border region. What we know so far

‘I hope he has found peace’

‘My sister and I went through all the morgues’

Dead end

Putin’s ‘henchmen’

Grim anniversary

‘American hearts bleed for Ukraine, but we also bleed for all Russian families affected by this war’

А Chain of Wars, a Chain of Crimes, a Chain of Impunity

After Bucha

Oversung hero

‘How to reduce the power of a petrostate? Get off fossil fuels as quickly as we can’

Military makeover

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