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‘We are Russians, and God is with us!’
Moscow’s ultranationalist march is effectively back, rebranded as a religious procession. Here’s what it looked like this year.
‘They just threw the book at me’
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Russia’s turn against attorneys
As the Russian legal system continues to lose its autonomy, lawyers themselves are increasingly facing prosecution for their work
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Writer Svetlana Satchkova’s first novel in English follows a Russian film director who stays out of politics — until it comes for her
Funny games
Russian preschoolers will soon be subjected to pro-war indoctrination before they can even read or write
‘Add a few tables and voila — it’s a restaurant’
How Russia’s Vologda region banned the sale of alcohol, but not its purchase and consumption
‘I could at least get out. They couldn't.’
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‘We want to make the invisible visible’
A new initiative aims to challenge the dominance of Russian by supporting literature in the country’s numerous indigenous languages
‘Books are at the heart of everything’
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