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‘We are Russians, and God is with us!’
Moscow’s ultranationalist march is effectively back, rebranded as a religious procession. Here’s what it looked like this year.
‘They just threw the book at me’
Inside Russia's campaign to push teenagers out of the classroom and into trade schools
Russia’s turn against attorneys
As the Russian legal system continues to lose its autonomy, lawyers themselves are increasingly facing prosecution for their work
‘Moscow has been seized by ghouls’
Writer Svetlana Satchkova’s first novel in English follows a Russian film director who stays out of politics — until it comes for her
Funny games
Russian preschoolers will soon be subjected to pro-war indoctrination before they can even read or write
‘Add a few tables and voila — it’s a restaurant’
How Russia’s Vologda region banned the sale of alcohol, but not its purchase and consumption
‘I could at least get out. They couldn't.’
How a Ukrainian woman found herself working in a Cambodian scam compound
‘We want to make the invisible visible’
A new initiative aims to challenge the dominance of Russian by supporting literature in the country’s numerous indigenous languages
‘Books are at the heart of everything’
Pioneer Summer sparked a wave of censorship in Russia. Now it’s part of a growing literary resistance.
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Russia, Belarus and four Central Asian countries sign pact to exchange information on alleged extremists
Russia sentences 68-year-old Ukrainian citizen to 14 years in prison on treason charges
Russia reportedly restricts funding for films depicting corrupt law enforcement
Russia plotted to assassinate Garry Kasparov and former lawmaker Ilya Ponomarev in US, Spanish media reports
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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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A starving human shield
Residents of occupied Oleshky are dying of hunger as Russia refuses to evacuate them. Locals describe life in the isolated frontline town.
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