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Alyona Itskova

Novaya Gazeta Europe correspondent

28 articles
StoriesSociety

Criminal injustice The war in Ukraine is offering murderers get-out-of-jail-free cards while the families of their victims live in perpetual fear

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In limbo For many transgender Russians, emigration is the only means of survival

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In loco parentis A case of child-on-child sexual abuse has left one family in Tatarstan unable to attain justice

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A poor bill of health Systemic barriers and prejudice are increasingly depriving trans people in Russia of healthcare

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Phoning it in Despite ambitious guidelines from Moscow, Russian schools have been going through the motions to mark Victory Day

StoriesCulture

Gasping for air Askold Kurov and and Anonymous1 capture the last days of press freedom in Russia in their film Of Caravan and the Dogs

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A higher loyalty Who is Pyotr Verzilov, the outspoken Russian artist and activist currently fighting for the Armed Forces of Ukraine?

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Default masculine How the Russian language has become a battleground in the country’s culture wars

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‘We had no chance of finding a child’ Novaya Gazeta Europe tells the stories of three Russian families who chose to adopt

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Feline justice Russian society is using ‘cat activism’ as an acceptable form of protest

StoriesPolitics

The cipher Meet Leonid Slutsky, Putin’s approved ‘challenger’ in next year’s presidential elections

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Mother Russia Who is the face of Russian online censorship, scourge of Russian rappers and Gen-Z icon Yekaterina Mizulina?

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The Candidate Who is the provincial journalist and mother of three planning to run for president?

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Not Gonna Get Us From the triumph of t.A.T.u. to a ban on ‘gay propaganda’ and attempts to label ‘the LGBT movement’ as extremist — a history of the queer community in contemporary Russia

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Spiral of violence Pardoning violent criminals for military service in Ukraine is freeing them to reoffend

StoriesPolitics

Passport control The Belarusian opposition is working on an alternative passport for the country’s citizens in exile. Could it succeed?

StoriesPolitics

Staying the distance The Moscow local politician who refuses to be intimidated

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‘She was no pushover’ Russian feminist activist Anastasia Yemelyanova died in the Turkish city of Erzurum last week after being stabbed. Her boyfriend later confessed to the crime.

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Hostages of gender and government Russia seeks to forbid trans persons from changing their gender marker in documents, undergoing gender-affirming therapy, and adopting children

InterviewSociety

‘Control of women is foundational to the Taliban’s project’ How life in Afghanistan has changed after the second Taliban takeover, Stanford University historian Robert Crews explains

InterviewPolitics

‘Russia will stay tarnished by the legacy of this war’ How Kyiv’s military and diplomatic leverage are tied together, explains international relations expert Liana Fix

InterviewSports

‘It’s women, life, and freedom. Which one of these words is wrong?’ An interview with Iranian chess arbiter Shohreh Bayat who was removed from all FIDE commissions and forced to leave her home country because of her beliefs

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