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Reputation under attack
Why did Chechen air defence systems fail to respond during a drone attack on Grozny, despite Kadyrov’s claims to the contrary?
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
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Stories
Misrule of law
Georgia’s drift towards a police state
Nicholas Pearce
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Stories
Reputation under attack
Why did Chechen air defence systems fail to respond during a drone attack on Grozny, despite Kadyrov’s claims to the contrary?
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
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Stories
Misrule of law
Georgia’s drift towards a police state
Nicholas Pearce
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News
Ukrainian drones target high-rise building in Russian city of Kazan
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Governor: six people killed in Ukrainian shelling of town in Russia’s Kursk region
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Nearly 800 Russians charged with treason since start of war in Ukraine
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Russian city unveils monument to first head of Soviet secret police
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Ukrainian drones target high-rise building in Russian city of Kazan
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Governor: six people killed in Ukrainian shelling of town in Russia’s Kursk region
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Nearly 800 Russians charged with treason since start of war in Ukraine
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Russian city unveils monument to first head of Soviet secret police
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
Putin holds annual call-in show in Moscow
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
Putin holds annual call-in show in Moscow
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
The daily grind
Military experts say Russia is likely to seize another key stronghold in eastern Ukraine
Ilya Volzhsky
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Analysis
Gaslighting
Change is afoot in Austria, one of the last EU countries to remain addicted to cheap Russian gas imports
Yana Fortuna
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Stories
The daily grind
Military experts say Russia is likely to seize another key stronghold in eastern Ukraine
Ilya Volzhsky
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Analysis
Gaslighting
Change is afoot in Austria, one of the last EU countries to remain addicted to cheap Russian gas imports
Yana Fortuna
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Stories
Hunkering down
Evacuees from Russian villages near the Ukrainian border feel abandoned by their own state
Viktoria Litvin
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Stories
Hunkering down
Evacuees from Russian villages near the Ukrainian border feel abandoned by their own state
Viktoria Litvin
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Comment
Brought low
What the overthrow of Assad means for Russia’s ambitions to be a great-power
Stefan Wolff
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Stories
The long con
What will happen to Russia’s compromised constitution when Putin’s regime finally falls?
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Comment
Brought low
What the overthrow of Assad means for Russia’s ambitions to be a great-power
Stefan Wolff
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Stories
The long con
What will happen to Russia’s compromised constitution when Putin’s regime finally falls?
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Comment
Soul searching
A contemporary of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reflects on the corrosive effects of a life lived in bad faith
Andrey Zubov
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Comment
Any port in a storm
How the loss of its Mediterranean naval base in Syria would weaken Russia as a global power
Basil Germond
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Stories
Heroes of their time
Inside Putin’s new scheme to identify the next generation of Russian leaders among veterans of the war in Ukraine
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
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Comment
Soul searching
A contemporary of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reflects on the corrosive effects of a life lived in bad faith
Andrey Zubov
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Comment
Any port in a storm
How the loss of its Mediterranean naval base in Syria would weaken Russia as a global power
Basil Germond
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Stories
Heroes of their time
Inside Putin’s new scheme to identify the next generation of Russian leaders among veterans of the war in Ukraine
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
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Analysis
Winging it
The number of safety incidents recorded by Russian airlines in 2024 has already reached a record high
Maria Ehrlich,
Sofya Kanevskaya
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Analysis
Winging it
The number of safety incidents recorded by Russian airlines in 2024 has already reached a record high
Maria Ehrlich,
Sofya Kanevskaya
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Stories
In the ascendant
The rise and rise of Alexander Khinshtein, the newly appointed Kursk region governor
Lyubov Borisenko
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Comment
A house divided
History amply demonstrates that carving Ukraine up is likely to bring horrifying violence and long-lasting enmity
Nina L. Khrushcheva
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Stories
Jumping ship
How Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers continues to breach sanctions and earn the Kremlin billions
Lyubov Borisenko
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Stories
In the ascendant
The rise and rise of Alexander Khinshtein, the newly appointed Kursk region governor
Lyubov Borisenko
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Comment
A house divided
History amply demonstrates that carving Ukraine up is likely to bring horrifying violence and long-lasting enmity
Nina L. Khrushcheva
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Stories
Jumping ship
How Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers continues to breach sanctions and earn the Kremlin billions
Lyubov Borisenko
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Stories
Movement backward and downward
Despite positioning itself as a bulwark against the woke West, Putinism has very little to do with real conservatism
Andrey Sapozhnikov
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Movement backward and downward
Despite positioning itself as a bulwark against the woke West, Putinism has very little to do with real conservatism
Andrey Sapozhnikov
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Comment
Courting disfavour
Novaya Gazeta Europe republishes the final statement made in court by political prisoner Alexey Gorinov
Alexey Gorinov
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Comment
Putin’s march of folly
The war in Ukraine represents a major strategic defeat for a leader in denial about his country’s loss of global status
Carl Bildt
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Comment
A time for unity
Now is the time for Russia’s disparate political opposition to put their past differences aside and come together
Lev Ponomaryov,
Yelena Kotyonochkina,
Oleg Yelanchik
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Comment
Courting disfavour
Novaya Gazeta Europe republishes the final statement made in court by political prisoner Alexey Gorinov
Alexey Gorinov
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Comment
Putin’s march of folly
The war in Ukraine represents a major strategic defeat for a leader in denial about his country’s loss of global status
Carl Bildt
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Comment
A time for unity
Now is the time for Russia’s disparate political opposition to put their past differences aside and come together
Lev Ponomaryov,
Yelena Kotyonochkina,
Oleg Yelanchik
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News
Russian anarchist jailed for arson commits suicide on first day of sentence
Five killed in fire at Russian detention centre where soldiers who refused to fight in Ukraine were held
At least three killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Kyiv and Kherson
Zelensky questions Putin’s sanity after ‘high-tech duel’ challenge to West
Fire breaks out at Rostov region oil refinery after Ukrainian drone strike
Czech parliament votes to ban dual citizenship for Russians
Interview
‘Put Masha in charge!’
An accidental activist has won popular acclaim for her response to the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region
Pavel Kuznetsov
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Stories
Child soldiers
Russian schools have replaced health and safety lessons with a course in basic homeland security and defence
Arthur Valentinov
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Interview
‘Put Masha in charge!’
An accidental activist has won popular acclaim for her response to the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region
Pavel Kuznetsov
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Stories
Child soldiers
Russian schools have replaced health and safety lessons with a course in basic homeland security and defence
Arthur Valentinov
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Stories
Stolen by the state
Two mothers describe the agony of having their children imprisoned for political crimes in Russia
Sonia Mustaeva
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Stories
Stolen by the state
Two mothers describe the agony of having their children imprisoned for political crimes in Russia
Sonia Mustaeva
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Comment
As obscene as it is absurd
Ukraine’s use of missiles against Russia is being treated as a dangerous escalation. It isn’t.
Slavoj Žižek
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Analysis
Playing both sides
Russia’s attempts to forge closer ties with countries in Africa are unlikely to succeed without more substance
Nikolay Pershin
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Comment
As obscene as it is absurd
Ukraine’s use of missiles against Russia is being treated as a dangerous escalation. It isn’t.
Slavoj Žižek
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Analysis
Playing both sides
Russia’s attempts to forge closer ties with countries in Africa are unlikely to succeed without more substance
Nikolay Pershin
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Interview
Eyeball to eyeball
Disarmament expert Pavel Podvig on what circumstances could lead Russia to use nuclear weapons against the West
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
The empire strikes back
Russia fires ballistic missile at Ukraine in a desperate show of force
Ilya Volzhsky
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Stories
Adoption barriers
Russia’s ban on adoption by citizens from countries that allow gender transition rules out much of Europe
Varvara Platova
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Interview
Eyeball to eyeball
Disarmament expert Pavel Podvig on what circumstances could lead Russia to use nuclear weapons against the West
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
The empire strikes back
Russia fires ballistic missile at Ukraine in a desperate show of force
Ilya Volzhsky
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Stories
Adoption barriers
Russia’s ban on adoption by citizens from countries that allow gender transition rules out much of Europe
Varvara Platova
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Analysis
Party crashers
The Russian authorities are increasingly cracking down on queer venues in the name of ‘traditional values’
Alesya Sokolova
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Analysis
Party crashers
The Russian authorities are increasingly cracking down on queer venues in the name of ‘traditional values’
Alesya Sokolova
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Stories
‘No more warm words’
Why ruble devaluation and xenophobic policies are making Russia less attractive for Armenian migrant workers
Sona Hovsepyan
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Comment
Regime change
Why a Trump White House might not be a disaster for Ukraine
Tatsyana Kulakevich
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Stories
‘No more warm words’
Why ruble devaluation and xenophobic policies are making Russia less attractive for Armenian migrant workers
Sona Hovsepyan
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Comment
Regime change
Why a Trump White House might not be a disaster for Ukraine
Tatsyana Kulakevich
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Stories
Death by a thousand cuts
A look back at the defining events of the war in Ukraine as the horrors of the Russian invasion enter their 1,000th day
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
Death by a thousand cuts
A look back at the defining events of the war in Ukraine as the horrors of the Russian invasion enter their 1,000th day
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Survey finds 70% of Russians thought 2024 a ‘difficult’ year for the country
Zelensky says Ukraine ‘lacks the strength’ to reclaim Crimea and Donbas
Washington says ‘hundreds’ of North Korean soldiers killed or wounded in Russia’s Kursk region
Russia detains Uzbek man ‘recruited by Ukraine’ over killing of general
Russian parliament passes bill that will allow Moscow to decriminalise the Taliban
Russian women demand Putin allow their conscripted loved ones to return from Ukraine
Comment
Berlin calling
Ahead of Sunday’s anti-war march in Berlin, Ilya Yashin explains why symbolism and solidarity matter
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Comment
Morality bites
Is the Kremlin really planning to hand the Russian police powers to enforce ‘traditional and moral values’?
Lera Furman
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Comment
Dangerous medicine
As interest rates soar, will Putin replace Russia’s veteran Central Bank governor with an unqualified loyalist?
Anders Åslund
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Comment
Berlin calling
Ahead of Sunday’s anti-war march in Berlin, Ilya Yashin explains why symbolism and solidarity matter
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Comment
Morality bites
Is the Kremlin really planning to hand the Russian police powers to enforce ‘traditional and moral values’?
Lera Furman
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Comment
Dangerous medicine
As interest rates soar, will Putin replace Russia’s veteran Central Bank governor with an unqualified loyalist?
Anders Åslund
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Analysis
Dream statistics
Were claims of fraud in the Georgian election widespread enough to have the vote annulled?
Alesya Sokolova
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Stories
Putin’s Trump card
Will the US president-elect soften his stance on Russia and end military support for Ukraine?
Yulia Akhmedova,
Lyubov Borisenko
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Analysis
Dream statistics
Were claims of fraud in the Georgian election widespread enough to have the vote annulled?
Alesya Sokolova
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Stories
Putin’s Trump card
Will the US president-elect soften his stance on Russia and end military support for Ukraine?
Yulia Akhmedova,
Lyubov Borisenko
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Comment
Dissident patriot
Alexey Navalny’s memoir is a testament to resisting authoritarianism
Robert Horvath
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Stories
Mob rule
The murder of a taxi driver in the Russian Urals has led to a riot and simmering racial tensions
Mark Mishin
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Report
Still here
Russians trapped in Ukrainian-occupied Sudzha are making short videos for their families to let them know they’re alive
Olga Musafirova,
Sonia Mustaeva
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Comment
Dissident patriot
Alexey Navalny’s memoir is a testament to resisting authoritarianism
Robert Horvath
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Stories
Mob rule
The murder of a taxi driver in the Russian Urals has led to a riot and simmering racial tensions
Mark Mishin
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Report
Still here
Russians trapped in Ukrainian-occupied Sudzha are making short videos for their families to let them know they’re alive
Olga Musafirova,
Sonia Mustaeva
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Comment
Go your own way
Why the victory of pro-European forces in Moldova’s election has a far wider significance
Kirill Martynov
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Analysis
Say their names
Why remembering the victims of Soviet-era repression is more about Russia’s future than its past
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Comment
Go your own way
Why the victory of pro-European forces in Moldova’s election has a far wider significance
Kirill Martynov
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Analysis
Say their names
Why remembering the victims of Soviet-era repression is more about Russia’s future than its past
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Comment
The lower depths
Moscow’s terror tactics against Ukrainian civilians have reached new lows
Olga Musafirova
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Comment
The lower depths
Moscow’s terror tactics against Ukrainian civilians have reached new lows
Olga Musafirova
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Analysis
Vested interest
How might the Central Bank’s decision to raise Russia’s key interest rate to 21% affect ordinary Russians?
Sofya Kanevskaya
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Stories
God forbid
Muslims in central Russia’s Vladimir region have come out against a school hijab ban
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Analysis
Vested interest
How might the Central Bank’s decision to raise Russia’s key interest rate to 21% affect ordinary Russians?
Sofya Kanevskaya
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Stories
God forbid
Muslims in central Russia’s Vladimir region have come out against a school hijab ban
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
Fighting mood
In photos: Georgians take to the streets to protest a rigged election and fight for the country’s European future
Anna Tumanova
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Stories
Unapologetic
A Russian teenager jailed for his criticism of Putin has reported being subjected to violent abuse in prison
Irina Garina
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Comment
Shifting the paradigm
US President Joe Biden’s decision to avoid escalation has become perverse and deadly for Ukraine
Marci Shore
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Stories
Fighting mood
In photos: Georgians take to the streets to protest a rigged election and fight for the country’s European future
Anna Tumanova
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Stories
Unapologetic
A Russian teenager jailed for his criticism of Putin has reported being subjected to violent abuse in prison
Irina Garina
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Comment
Shifting the paradigm
US President Joe Biden’s decision to avoid escalation has become perverse and deadly for Ukraine
Marci Shore
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Stories
Korea’s second front
Tensions between Pyongyang and Seoul reach boiling point as the two Koreas risk coming face-to-face in Ukraine
Ilya Volzhsky,
Milana Ochirova
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Report
Recurring dream
Georgians face risk of a rigged election as the country’s ruling party seeks to hold onto power indefinitely
Nicholas Pearce
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Stories
Korea’s second front
Tensions between Pyongyang and Seoul reach boiling point as the two Koreas risk coming face-to-face in Ukraine
Ilya Volzhsky,
Milana Ochirova
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Report
Recurring dream
Georgians face risk of a rigged election as the country’s ruling party seeks to hold onto power indefinitely
Nicholas Pearce
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Comment
The multipolar dream
As the annual BRICS summit begins in Russia, the organisation appears serious about ushering in a new world order
Brahma Chellaney
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Stories
Nobody to each other
How a Belarusian-Russian married gay couple’s right to be together is being undermined in the EU
Iryna Khalip
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Stories
Brave new world
The 22-year-old woman from Moscow who has spent the past two years evacuating people from the war zone
Asya Moroz
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Comment
The multipolar dream
As the annual BRICS summit begins in Russia, the organisation appears serious about ushering in a new world order
Brahma Chellaney
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Stories
Nobody to each other
How a Belarusian-Russian married gay couple’s right to be together is being undermined in the EU
Iryna Khalip
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Stories
Brave new world
The 22-year-old woman from Moscow who has spent the past two years evacuating people from the war zone
Asya Moroz
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News
Oil washes ashore in Russia’s Krasnodar region following wreck of two tankers in Black Sea
Russian prosecutors seek sentences of over 5 years for Alexey Navalny’s lawyers
Assad claims he intended to continue fighting rebels in Syria but was forced by Moscow to flee
Explosive device kills head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops in Moscow
Chechnya’s Kadyrov calls for decriminalising Syrian Islamist group that toppled Assad
Putin announces that Russian troop numbers now top 1.5 million
Comment
A union of no consequence
Next week’s BRICS summit in Kazan will only underscore how incohesive and irrelevant the group really is
Jim O'Neill
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Analysis
Cradle snatchers
The Kremlin is now targeting Russian children as young as three with its pro-war propaganda
Daria Talanova
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Comment
A union of no consequence
Next week’s BRICS summit in Kazan will only underscore how incohesive and irrelevant the group really is
Jim O'Neill
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Analysis
Cradle snatchers
The Kremlin is now targeting Russian children as young as three with its pro-war propaganda
Daria Talanova
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Stories
Diminishing returns
Russia is facing a massive shortfall in migrant labour that’s only being made worse by the government’s own populist rhetoric
Denis Morokhin
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Comment
Future proofing Ukraine
NATO should provide Kyiv with the security guarantees it needs to survive after the war
Ana Palacio
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Analysis
Discordant
How one app’s popularity in Russia led the Kremlin to block it despite its important role in the war in Ukraine
Leonid Rakhlin
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Stories
Diminishing returns
Russia is facing a massive shortfall in migrant labour that’s only being made worse by the government’s own populist rhetoric
Denis Morokhin
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Comment
Future proofing Ukraine
NATO should provide Kyiv with the security guarantees it needs to survive after the war
Ana Palacio
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Analysis
Discordant
How one app’s popularity in Russia led the Kremlin to block it despite its important role in the war in Ukraine
Leonid Rakhlin
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Comment
Objective reality
Whether or not Kyiv can ultimately triumph over Moscow depends on how exactly it chooses to define victory
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
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Comment
Change is inevitable
The wars in Ukraine and Israel and the failing global economy herald the advent of a new world order
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Comment
Objective reality
Whether or not Kyiv can ultimately triumph over Moscow depends on how exactly it chooses to define victory
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
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Comment
Change is inevitable
The wars in Ukraine and Israel and the failing global economy herald the advent of a new world order
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Stories
Revisionist history
The Russian authorities are revisiting thousands of post-Soviet rehabilitation orders to align them with statist policy
Lyubov Borisenko
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Stories
Prisoner of conscience
Russian opposition activist Ildar Dadin died in combat while fighting for Ukraine last week
Ilya Volzhsky
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Stories
Doctoring history
MSF has been forced to end its work in Russia after over 30 years of helping some of its most vulnerable citizens survive
Mira Livadina
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Stories
Revisionist history
The Russian authorities are revisiting thousands of post-Soviet rehabilitation orders to align them with statist policy
Lyubov Borisenko
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Stories
Prisoner of conscience
Russian opposition activist Ildar Dadin died in combat while fighting for Ukraine last week
Ilya Volzhsky
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Stories
Doctoring history
MSF has been forced to end its work in Russia after over 30 years of helping some of its most vulnerable citizens survive
Mira Livadina
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News
Putin orders promotion for judge who dismissed Navalny’s lawsuits against prison staff
All 14 crew members of second stricken Russian oil tanker rescued in Kerch Strait
Assad revealed to have flown $250 million in cash to Russia as Syrians starved
Ecological disaster feared as Russian oil tanker sinks in Black Sea
Ukrainian drones reportedly target multiple security agencies in Chechen capital Grozny
Georgian president pledges to remain in office amid ‘parody’ vote for her replacement
Comment
Selling Russia short
The apparent resilience of Putin’s war economy comes at an enormous cost to the country’s future
Konstantin Sonin
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Comment
Behind the curtain
The Kremlin’s claim that it attacked Ukraine in self-defence is a dangerous sleight of hand
Slavoj Žižek
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Stories
The fall of Vuhledar
The Ukrainian strategic defence hub has finally fallen to the Russian military. What happens now?
Ilya Volzhsky
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Comment
Selling Russia short
The apparent resilience of Putin’s war economy comes at an enormous cost to the country’s future
Konstantin Sonin
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Comment
Behind the curtain
The Kremlin’s claim that it attacked Ukraine in self-defence is a dangerous sleight of hand
Slavoj Žižek
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Stories
The fall of Vuhledar
The Ukrainian strategic defence hub has finally fallen to the Russian military. What happens now?
Ilya Volzhsky
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Comment
War of attrition
Through ever more daring drone strikes, Kyiv is demonstrating its determination to fight Russia for as long as it takes
James Horncastle
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Stories
‘Going back to Russia would be a dead-end street’
A Russian man who refused to fight in Ukraine has been denied political asylum by Norway
Natalia Glukhova
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Comment
War of attrition
Through ever more daring drone strikes, Kyiv is demonstrating its determination to fight Russia for as long as it takes
James Horncastle
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Stories
‘Going back to Russia would be a dead-end street’
A Russian man who refused to fight in Ukraine has been denied political asylum by Norway
Natalia Glukhova
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Editor’s picks
Stories
Russian roulette
Novaya Europe investigates how impoverished Nepalis are being unscrupulously lured into fighting for the Russian army in Ukraine
Irina Kravtsova
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Stories
Russian roulette
Novaya Europe investigates how impoverished Nepalis are being unscrupulously lured into fighting for the Russian army in Ukraine
Irina Kravtsova
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Stories
Hipster gulag
How an attempt to transform Moscow into a progressive European capital was sacrificed on the altar of Putinism
Andrey Sapozhnikov
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Analysis
Death metal
Why the West is reluctant or unable to fully end its reliance on Russia’s natural resources
Denis Morokhin
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Analysis
Paying the piper
The transit of Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine will end later this year unless an alternative can be found
Yana Fortuna
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Stories
Hipster gulag
How an attempt to transform Moscow into a progressive European capital was sacrificed on the altar of Putinism
Andrey Sapozhnikov
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Analysis
Death metal
Why the West is reluctant or unable to fully end its reliance on Russia’s natural resources
Denis Morokhin
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Analysis
Paying the piper
The transit of Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine will end later this year unless an alternative can be found
Yana Fortuna
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Reputation under attack
Why did Chechen air defence systems fail to respond during a drone attack on Grozny, despite Kadyrov’s claims to the contrary?
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
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Stories
Misrule of law
Georgia’s drift towards a police state
Nicholas Pearce
-
Stories
Reputation under attack
Why did Chechen air defence systems fail to respond during a drone attack on Grozny, despite Kadyrov’s claims to the contrary?
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
-
Stories
Misrule of law
Georgia’s drift towards a police state
Nicholas Pearce
-
News
Ukrainian drones target high-rise building in Russian city of Kazan
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Governor: six people killed in Ukrainian shelling of town in Russia’s Kursk region
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Nearly 800 Russians charged with treason since start of war in Ukraine
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Russian city unveils monument to first head of Soviet secret police
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Ukrainian drones target high-rise building in Russian city of Kazan
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Governor: six people killed in Ukrainian shelling of town in Russia’s Kursk region
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Nearly 800 Russians charged with treason since start of war in Ukraine
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Russian city unveils monument to first head of Soviet secret police
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
Putin holds annual call-in show in Moscow
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
Putin holds annual call-in show in Moscow
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
The daily grind
Military experts say Russia is likely to seize another key stronghold in eastern Ukraine
Ilya Volzhsky
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Analysis
Gaslighting
Change is afoot in Austria, one of the last EU countries to remain addicted to cheap Russian gas imports
Yana Fortuna
-
Stories
The daily grind
Military experts say Russia is likely to seize another key stronghold in eastern Ukraine
Ilya Volzhsky
-
Analysis
Gaslighting
Change is afoot in Austria, one of the last EU countries to remain addicted to cheap Russian gas imports
Yana Fortuna
-
Stories
Hunkering down
Evacuees from Russian villages near the Ukrainian border feel abandoned by their own state
Viktoria Litvin
-
Stories
Hunkering down
Evacuees from Russian villages near the Ukrainian border feel abandoned by their own state
Viktoria Litvin
-
Comment
Brought low
What the overthrow of Assad means for Russia’s ambitions to be a great-power
Stefan Wolff
-
Stories
The long con
What will happen to Russia’s compromised constitution when Putin’s regime finally falls?
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Comment
Brought low
What the overthrow of Assad means for Russia’s ambitions to be a great-power
Stefan Wolff
-
Stories
The long con
What will happen to Russia’s compromised constitution when Putin’s regime finally falls?
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Comment
Soul searching
A contemporary of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reflects on the corrosive effects of a life lived in bad faith
Andrey Zubov
-
Comment
Any port in a storm
How the loss of its Mediterranean naval base in Syria would weaken Russia as a global power
Basil Germond
-
Stories
Heroes of their time
Inside Putin’s new scheme to identify the next generation of Russian leaders among veterans of the war in Ukraine
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
-
Comment
Soul searching
A contemporary of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reflects on the corrosive effects of a life lived in bad faith
Andrey Zubov
-
Comment
Any port in a storm
How the loss of its Mediterranean naval base in Syria would weaken Russia as a global power
Basil Germond
-
Stories
Heroes of their time
Inside Putin’s new scheme to identify the next generation of Russian leaders among veterans of the war in Ukraine
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
-
Analysis
Winging it
The number of safety incidents recorded by Russian airlines in 2024 has already reached a record high
Maria Ehrlich,
Sofya Kanevskaya
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Analysis
Winging it
The number of safety incidents recorded by Russian airlines in 2024 has already reached a record high
Maria Ehrlich,
Sofya Kanevskaya
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Stories
In the ascendant
The rise and rise of Alexander Khinshtein, the newly appointed Kursk region governor
Lyubov Borisenko
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Comment
A house divided
History amply demonstrates that carving Ukraine up is likely to bring horrifying violence and long-lasting enmity
Nina L. Khrushcheva
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Stories
Jumping ship
How Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers continues to breach sanctions and earn the Kremlin billions
Lyubov Borisenko
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Stories
In the ascendant
The rise and rise of Alexander Khinshtein, the newly appointed Kursk region governor
Lyubov Borisenko
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Comment
A house divided
History amply demonstrates that carving Ukraine up is likely to bring horrifying violence and long-lasting enmity
Nina L. Khrushcheva
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Stories
Jumping ship
How Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers continues to breach sanctions and earn the Kremlin billions
Lyubov Borisenko
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Stories
Movement backward and downward
Despite positioning itself as a bulwark against the woke West, Putinism has very little to do with real conservatism
Andrey Sapozhnikov
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Stories
Movement backward and downward
Despite positioning itself as a bulwark against the woke West, Putinism has very little to do with real conservatism
Andrey Sapozhnikov
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Comment
Courting disfavour
Novaya Gazeta Europe republishes the final statement made in court by political prisoner Alexey Gorinov
Alexey Gorinov
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Comment
Putin’s march of folly
The war in Ukraine represents a major strategic defeat for a leader in denial about his country’s loss of global status
Carl Bildt
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Comment
A time for unity
Now is the time for Russia’s disparate political opposition to put their past differences aside and come together
Lev Ponomaryov,
Yelena Kotyonochkina,
Oleg Yelanchik
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Comment
Courting disfavour
Novaya Gazeta Europe republishes the final statement made in court by political prisoner Alexey Gorinov
Alexey Gorinov
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Comment
Putin’s march of folly
The war in Ukraine represents a major strategic defeat for a leader in denial about his country’s loss of global status
Carl Bildt
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Comment
A time for unity
Now is the time for Russia’s disparate political opposition to put their past differences aside and come together
Lev Ponomaryov,
Yelena Kotyonochkina,
Oleg Yelanchik
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News
Russian anarchist jailed for arson commits suicide on first day of sentence
Five killed in fire at Russian detention centre where soldiers who refused to fight in Ukraine were held
At least three killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Kyiv and Kherson
Zelensky questions Putin’s sanity after ‘high-tech duel’ challenge to West
Fire breaks out at Rostov region oil refinery after Ukrainian drone strike
Czech parliament votes to ban dual citizenship for Russians
Interview
‘Put Masha in charge!’
An accidental activist has won popular acclaim for her response to the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region
Pavel Kuznetsov
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Stories
Child soldiers
Russian schools have replaced health and safety lessons with a course in basic homeland security and defence
Arthur Valentinov
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Interview
‘Put Masha in charge!’
An accidental activist has won popular acclaim for her response to the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region
Pavel Kuznetsov
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Stories
Child soldiers
Russian schools have replaced health and safety lessons with a course in basic homeland security and defence
Arthur Valentinov
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Stories
Stolen by the state
Two mothers describe the agony of having their children imprisoned for political crimes in Russia
Sonia Mustaeva
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Stories
Stolen by the state
Two mothers describe the agony of having their children imprisoned for political crimes in Russia
Sonia Mustaeva
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Comment
As obscene as it is absurd
Ukraine’s use of missiles against Russia is being treated as a dangerous escalation. It isn’t.
Slavoj Žižek
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Analysis
Playing both sides
Russia’s attempts to forge closer ties with countries in Africa are unlikely to succeed without more substance
Nikolay Pershin
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Comment
As obscene as it is absurd
Ukraine’s use of missiles against Russia is being treated as a dangerous escalation. It isn’t.
Slavoj Žižek
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Analysis
Playing both sides
Russia’s attempts to forge closer ties with countries in Africa are unlikely to succeed without more substance
Nikolay Pershin
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Interview
Eyeball to eyeball
Disarmament expert Pavel Podvig on what circumstances could lead Russia to use nuclear weapons against the West
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
The empire strikes back
Russia fires ballistic missile at Ukraine in a desperate show of force
Ilya Volzhsky
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Stories
Adoption barriers
Russia’s ban on adoption by citizens from countries that allow gender transition rules out much of Europe
Varvara Platova
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Interview
Eyeball to eyeball
Disarmament expert Pavel Podvig on what circumstances could lead Russia to use nuclear weapons against the West
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
The empire strikes back
Russia fires ballistic missile at Ukraine in a desperate show of force
Ilya Volzhsky
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Stories
Adoption barriers
Russia’s ban on adoption by citizens from countries that allow gender transition rules out much of Europe
Varvara Platova
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Analysis
Party crashers
The Russian authorities are increasingly cracking down on queer venues in the name of ‘traditional values’
Alesya Sokolova
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Analysis
Party crashers
The Russian authorities are increasingly cracking down on queer venues in the name of ‘traditional values’
Alesya Sokolova
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Stories
‘No more warm words’
Why ruble devaluation and xenophobic policies are making Russia less attractive for Armenian migrant workers
Sona Hovsepyan
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Comment
Regime change
Why a Trump White House might not be a disaster for Ukraine
Tatsyana Kulakevich
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Stories
‘No more warm words’
Why ruble devaluation and xenophobic policies are making Russia less attractive for Armenian migrant workers
Sona Hovsepyan
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Comment
Regime change
Why a Trump White House might not be a disaster for Ukraine
Tatsyana Kulakevich
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Stories
Death by a thousand cuts
A look back at the defining events of the war in Ukraine as the horrors of the Russian invasion enter their 1,000th day
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
Death by a thousand cuts
A look back at the defining events of the war in Ukraine as the horrors of the Russian invasion enter their 1,000th day
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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News
Survey finds 70% of Russians thought 2024 a ‘difficult’ year for the country
Zelensky says Ukraine ‘lacks the strength’ to reclaim Crimea and Donbas
Washington says ‘hundreds’ of North Korean soldiers killed or wounded in Russia’s Kursk region
Russia detains Uzbek man ‘recruited by Ukraine’ over killing of general
Russian parliament passes bill that will allow Moscow to decriminalise the Taliban
Russian women demand Putin allow their conscripted loved ones to return from Ukraine
Comment
Berlin calling
Ahead of Sunday’s anti-war march in Berlin, Ilya Yashin explains why symbolism and solidarity matter
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Comment
Morality bites
Is the Kremlin really planning to hand the Russian police powers to enforce ‘traditional and moral values’?
Lera Furman
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Comment
Dangerous medicine
As interest rates soar, will Putin replace Russia’s veteran Central Bank governor with an unqualified loyalist?
Anders Åslund
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Comment
Berlin calling
Ahead of Sunday’s anti-war march in Berlin, Ilya Yashin explains why symbolism and solidarity matter
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Comment
Morality bites
Is the Kremlin really planning to hand the Russian police powers to enforce ‘traditional and moral values’?
Lera Furman
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Comment
Dangerous medicine
As interest rates soar, will Putin replace Russia’s veteran Central Bank governor with an unqualified loyalist?
Anders Åslund
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Analysis
Dream statistics
Were claims of fraud in the Georgian election widespread enough to have the vote annulled?
Alesya Sokolova
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Stories
Putin’s Trump card
Will the US president-elect soften his stance on Russia and end military support for Ukraine?
Yulia Akhmedova,
Lyubov Borisenko
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Analysis
Dream statistics
Were claims of fraud in the Georgian election widespread enough to have the vote annulled?
Alesya Sokolova
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Stories
Putin’s Trump card
Will the US president-elect soften his stance on Russia and end military support for Ukraine?
Yulia Akhmedova,
Lyubov Borisenko
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Comment
Dissident patriot
Alexey Navalny’s memoir is a testament to resisting authoritarianism
Robert Horvath
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Stories
Mob rule
The murder of a taxi driver in the Russian Urals has led to a riot and simmering racial tensions
Mark Mishin
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Report
Still here
Russians trapped in Ukrainian-occupied Sudzha are making short videos for their families to let them know they’re alive
Olga Musafirova,
Sonia Mustaeva
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Comment
Dissident patriot
Alexey Navalny’s memoir is a testament to resisting authoritarianism
Robert Horvath
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Stories
Mob rule
The murder of a taxi driver in the Russian Urals has led to a riot and simmering racial tensions
Mark Mishin
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Report
Still here
Russians trapped in Ukrainian-occupied Sudzha are making short videos for their families to let them know they’re alive
Olga Musafirova,
Sonia Mustaeva
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Comment
Go your own way
Why the victory of pro-European forces in Moldova’s election has a far wider significance
Kirill Martynov
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Analysis
Say their names
Why remembering the victims of Soviet-era repression is more about Russia’s future than its past
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Comment
Go your own way
Why the victory of pro-European forces in Moldova’s election has a far wider significance
Kirill Martynov
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Analysis
Say their names
Why remembering the victims of Soviet-era repression is more about Russia’s future than its past
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Comment
The lower depths
Moscow’s terror tactics against Ukrainian civilians have reached new lows
Olga Musafirova
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Comment
The lower depths
Moscow’s terror tactics against Ukrainian civilians have reached new lows
Olga Musafirova
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Analysis
Vested interest
How might the Central Bank’s decision to raise Russia’s key interest rate to 21% affect ordinary Russians?
Sofya Kanevskaya
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Stories
God forbid
Muslims in central Russia’s Vladimir region have come out against a school hijab ban
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Analysis
Vested interest
How might the Central Bank’s decision to raise Russia’s key interest rate to 21% affect ordinary Russians?
Sofya Kanevskaya
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Stories
God forbid
Muslims in central Russia’s Vladimir region have come out against a school hijab ban
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
Fighting mood
In photos: Georgians take to the streets to protest a rigged election and fight for the country’s European future
Anna Tumanova
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Stories
Unapologetic
A Russian teenager jailed for his criticism of Putin has reported being subjected to violent abuse in prison
Irina Garina
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Comment
Shifting the paradigm
US President Joe Biden’s decision to avoid escalation has become perverse and deadly for Ukraine
Marci Shore
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Stories
Fighting mood
In photos: Georgians take to the streets to protest a rigged election and fight for the country’s European future
Anna Tumanova
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Stories
Unapologetic
A Russian teenager jailed for his criticism of Putin has reported being subjected to violent abuse in prison
Irina Garina
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Comment
Shifting the paradigm
US President Joe Biden’s decision to avoid escalation has become perverse and deadly for Ukraine
Marci Shore
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Stories
Korea’s second front
Tensions between Pyongyang and Seoul reach boiling point as the two Koreas risk coming face-to-face in Ukraine
Ilya Volzhsky,
Milana Ochirova
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Report
Recurring dream
Georgians face risk of a rigged election as the country’s ruling party seeks to hold onto power indefinitely
Nicholas Pearce
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Stories
Korea’s second front
Tensions between Pyongyang and Seoul reach boiling point as the two Koreas risk coming face-to-face in Ukraine
Ilya Volzhsky,
Milana Ochirova
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Report
Recurring dream
Georgians face risk of a rigged election as the country’s ruling party seeks to hold onto power indefinitely
Nicholas Pearce
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Comment
The multipolar dream
As the annual BRICS summit begins in Russia, the organisation appears serious about ushering in a new world order
Brahma Chellaney
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Stories
Nobody to each other
How a Belarusian-Russian married gay couple’s right to be together is being undermined in the EU
Iryna Khalip
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Stories
Brave new world
The 22-year-old woman from Moscow who has spent the past two years evacuating people from the war zone
Asya Moroz
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Comment
The multipolar dream
As the annual BRICS summit begins in Russia, the organisation appears serious about ushering in a new world order
Brahma Chellaney
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Stories
Nobody to each other
How a Belarusian-Russian married gay couple’s right to be together is being undermined in the EU
Iryna Khalip
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Stories
Brave new world
The 22-year-old woman from Moscow who has spent the past two years evacuating people from the war zone
Asya Moroz
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News
Oil washes ashore in Russia’s Krasnodar region following wreck of two tankers in Black Sea
Russian prosecutors seek sentences of over 5 years for Alexey Navalny’s lawyers
Assad claims he intended to continue fighting rebels in Syria but was forced by Moscow to flee
Explosive device kills head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops in Moscow
Chechnya’s Kadyrov calls for decriminalising Syrian Islamist group that toppled Assad
Putin announces that Russian troop numbers now top 1.5 million
Comment
A union of no consequence
Next week’s BRICS summit in Kazan will only underscore how incohesive and irrelevant the group really is
Jim O'Neill
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Analysis
Cradle snatchers
The Kremlin is now targeting Russian children as young as three with its pro-war propaganda
Daria Talanova
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Comment
A union of no consequence
Next week’s BRICS summit in Kazan will only underscore how incohesive and irrelevant the group really is
Jim O'Neill
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Analysis
Cradle snatchers
The Kremlin is now targeting Russian children as young as three with its pro-war propaganda
Daria Talanova
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Stories
Diminishing returns
Russia is facing a massive shortfall in migrant labour that’s only being made worse by the government’s own populist rhetoric
Denis Morokhin
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Comment
Future proofing Ukraine
NATO should provide Kyiv with the security guarantees it needs to survive after the war
Ana Palacio
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Analysis
Discordant
How one app’s popularity in Russia led the Kremlin to block it despite its important role in the war in Ukraine
Leonid Rakhlin
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Stories
Diminishing returns
Russia is facing a massive shortfall in migrant labour that’s only being made worse by the government’s own populist rhetoric
Denis Morokhin
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Comment
Future proofing Ukraine
NATO should provide Kyiv with the security guarantees it needs to survive after the war
Ana Palacio
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Analysis
Discordant
How one app’s popularity in Russia led the Kremlin to block it despite its important role in the war in Ukraine
Leonid Rakhlin
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Comment
Objective reality
Whether or not Kyiv can ultimately triumph over Moscow depends on how exactly it chooses to define victory
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
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Comment
Change is inevitable
The wars in Ukraine and Israel and the failing global economy herald the advent of a new world order
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Comment
Objective reality
Whether or not Kyiv can ultimately triumph over Moscow depends on how exactly it chooses to define victory
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
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Comment
Change is inevitable
The wars in Ukraine and Israel and the failing global economy herald the advent of a new world order
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Stories
Revisionist history
The Russian authorities are revisiting thousands of post-Soviet rehabilitation orders to align them with statist policy
Lyubov Borisenko
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Stories
Prisoner of conscience
Russian opposition activist Ildar Dadin died in combat while fighting for Ukraine last week
Ilya Volzhsky
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Stories
Doctoring history
MSF has been forced to end its work in Russia after over 30 years of helping some of its most vulnerable citizens survive
Mira Livadina
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Stories
Revisionist history
The Russian authorities are revisiting thousands of post-Soviet rehabilitation orders to align them with statist policy
Lyubov Borisenko
-
Stories
Prisoner of conscience
Russian opposition activist Ildar Dadin died in combat while fighting for Ukraine last week
Ilya Volzhsky
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Stories
Doctoring history
MSF has been forced to end its work in Russia after over 30 years of helping some of its most vulnerable citizens survive
Mira Livadina
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News
Putin orders promotion for judge who dismissed Navalny’s lawsuits against prison staff
All 14 crew members of second stricken Russian oil tanker rescued in Kerch Strait
Assad revealed to have flown $250 million in cash to Russia as Syrians starved
Ecological disaster feared as Russian oil tanker sinks in Black Sea
Ukrainian drones reportedly target multiple security agencies in Chechen capital Grozny
Georgian president pledges to remain in office amid ‘parody’ vote for her replacement
Comment
Selling Russia short
The apparent resilience of Putin’s war economy comes at an enormous cost to the country’s future
Konstantin Sonin
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Comment
Behind the curtain
The Kremlin’s claim that it attacked Ukraine in self-defence is a dangerous sleight of hand
Slavoj Žižek
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Stories
The fall of Vuhledar
The Ukrainian strategic defence hub has finally fallen to the Russian military. What happens now?
Ilya Volzhsky
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Comment
Selling Russia short
The apparent resilience of Putin’s war economy comes at an enormous cost to the country’s future
Konstantin Sonin
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Comment
Behind the curtain
The Kremlin’s claim that it attacked Ukraine in self-defence is a dangerous sleight of hand
Slavoj Žižek
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Stories
The fall of Vuhledar
The Ukrainian strategic defence hub has finally fallen to the Russian military. What happens now?
Ilya Volzhsky
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Comment
War of attrition
Through ever more daring drone strikes, Kyiv is demonstrating its determination to fight Russia for as long as it takes
James Horncastle
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Stories
‘Going back to Russia would be a dead-end street’
A Russian man who refused to fight in Ukraine has been denied political asylum by Norway
Natalia Glukhova
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Comment
War of attrition
Through ever more daring drone strikes, Kyiv is demonstrating its determination to fight Russia for as long as it takes
James Horncastle
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Stories
‘Going back to Russia would be a dead-end street’
A Russian man who refused to fight in Ukraine has been denied political asylum by Norway
Natalia Glukhova
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Editor’s picks
Stories
Russian roulette
Novaya Europe investigates how impoverished Nepalis are being unscrupulously lured into fighting for the Russian army in Ukraine
Irina Kravtsova
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Stories
Russian roulette
Novaya Europe investigates how impoverished Nepalis are being unscrupulously lured into fighting for the Russian army in Ukraine
Irina Kravtsova
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Stories
Hipster gulag
How an attempt to transform Moscow into a progressive European capital was sacrificed on the altar of Putinism
Andrey Sapozhnikov
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Analysis
Death metal
Why the West is reluctant or unable to fully end its reliance on Russia’s natural resources
Denis Morokhin
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Analysis
Paying the piper
The transit of Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine will end later this year unless an alternative can be found
Yana Fortuna
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Stories
Hipster gulag
How an attempt to transform Moscow into a progressive European capital was sacrificed on the altar of Putinism
Andrey Sapozhnikov
-
Analysis
Death metal
Why the West is reluctant or unable to fully end its reliance on Russia’s natural resources
Denis Morokhin
-
Analysis
Paying the piper
The transit of Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine will end later this year unless an alternative can be found
Yana Fortuna
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