Danila Kozlovsky: portrait of a Russian actor who cannot feign war support Kozlovsky was expected to back the Ukraine invasion but he spoke out against it, despite police reports and career threats
Too smart for their own good Russia is waging a war against its own scientists: special services are searching for traitors among prominent and elderly physicists. Not all of them live to hear the verdict
Who is Andrey Kartapolov, the man behind Russia’s digital draft notice law? A profile of the lawmaker who essentially introduced serfdom for the Russian male population
Vladimir Kara-Murza: portrait of Putin’s enemy His two great-grandfathers were executed, grandfather endured labour camps, while he is imprisoned for ‘high treason’ against Putin’s regime
Who is the Russian oligarch caught criticising Putin in leaked audio? Azerbaijan-born businessman Farkhad Akhmedov allegedly disparaged Putin during a leaked phone call. What else do we know about him?
Diplomacy built on lies Russian diplomats’ motto abroad is ‘If you were caught in a lie, stay quiet or go into attack mode’. A dossier on Russia’s UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya
To teach a lesson to a scientist How the security forces are destroying the life of the Zuev family, whose head, the Rector of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (i.e. Shaninka), is not willing to assume his responsibility for a crime which may have never taken place