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Axis of diesel
Who stands to benefit from Trump’s cosy new oil deal with Putin?
Mother Russia
Twenty years after Anna Politkovskaya’s murder, the late Novaya Gazeta journalist remains an essential voice for understanding the Putin regime
Is modern Russia fascist?
Historian and political theorist Roger Griffin on the Putin regime, the hallmarks of fascism and the perils of dwelling on ‘taxonomy’
‘A kind of schizophrenia’
How Russia’s parties have been campaigning for this weekend’s elections when all the real issues are off-limits
‘A chance to vote for peace, freedom, and a life without fear’
Russia’s Supreme Court barred the anti-war Yabloko party from upcoming parliamentary elections. Here’s how the hearing went.
Squeezing the elites
Under the guise of ‘anti-corruption’, the Kremlin is using a new wave of property seizures to bring officials to heel
Will it be different this time?
Inna Bondarenko watches as a new Russian opposition party is born in exile
Honoured guest, unwanted visitor
How Elon Musk’s father charmed the Kremlin and outraged Russian farmers
Russian lawmakers advance bill to punish citizens abroad for acting ‘against Russia’s interests’
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Russian security forces search family home of wanted student journalist Leonid Spirin
Russian lawmakers move to start fining ordinary citizens for ‘discrediting traditional values’
FT: Russia uses AI-generated videos to claim captures of Ukrainian towns
‘This isn’t goodbye’: Novaya Gazeta’s staff walk out of its Moscow office for the last time
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Interactive map: Attacks on Russian territory, updated in real time
As Ukraine fights back, the war has spread to at least 60 Russian regions
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‘In a foreign country, we’re nobody’
Nadine Geisler was sentenced to 22 years in a Russian prison for helping Ukrainian refugees. Her family has been on the run ever since.
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‘I’ve never seen kindness like this in my life’
Three Russians who recently emigrated explain why they stayed so long, and what finally made them leave
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