StoriesPoliticsIn the ascendant The rise and rise of Alexander Khinshtein, the newly appointed Kursk region governorLyubov Borisenko-
StoriesEconomicsJumping ship How Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers continues to breach sanctions and earn the Kremlin billionsLyubov Borisenko-
StoriesPoliticsPutin’s Trump card Will the US president-elect soften his stance on Russia and end military support for Ukraine?Yulia Akhmedova, Lyubov Borisenko-
StoriesSocietyRevisionist history The Russian authorities are revisiting thousands of post-Soviet rehabilitation orders to align them with statist policyLyubov Borisenko-
StoriesCultureWritten out Why did the largest Russian-language fanfiction site make its same-sex stories inaccessible?Lyubov Borisenko-
StoriesSocietyHopeful romantics A popular role-playing game has been forced out of Russia after refusing to pull its LGBT content Lyubov Borisenko-
StoriesSocietyCruel and unusual A Russian soldier told his mother he’d been tortured by military police. A month later he was found hanged. Lyubov Borisenko-
AnalysisPoliticsBeyond Vovchansk What does Russia aim to achieve with its offensive in the Kharkiv region?Lyubov Borisenko, Ilya Volzhsky-