No end in sight
Over 60 people killed by Russian strikes on Ukraine in under a week
Russian army strikes on several Ukrainian cities have killed dozens of civilians and left hundreds wounded in under a week.
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Scorched earth
A bombed-out printing house and an underground school reveal differing aspects of life in Kharkiv
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‘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.
Between Putin and the Pope
The head of Russia’s Catholics resigned for 'health reasons’. But sources say the real reason was his anti-war stance
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Russian e-commerce site bans teenage warehouse workers after drone attack kills 16-year-old
Russia’s Buryatia raises alert level over livestock disease outbreak in neighbouring region
‘You’ll see her in 10 years minimum’: Russian FSB disappears schoolteacher in Ukraine’s occupied Kherson region
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