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A Russian teenager sentenced to six years for attempting to set fire to a military recruitment office speaks out in court

Новости

‘Do you still need this war?’

Why has the Kremlin decided to reinstate Putin’s annual live call-in event this year?

Комментарий

Summoning the leader

Social anthropologist and North Caucasus expert Denis Sokolov gives his analysis of last Sunday’s anti-Semitic riot in Dagestan

Сюжеты

‘For the Putin regime, Muslims are now a very enticing prospect’

The anti-Semitic riot in Dagestan has undermined the claims of religious harmony made by Russia’s religious leaders

Сюжеты

Never again… until now

Why has the Kremlin decided to reinstate Putin’s annual live call-in event this year?

Комментарий

Summoning the leader

Social anthropologist and North Caucasus expert Denis Sokolov gives his analysis of last Sunday’s anti-Semitic riot in Dagestan

Сюжеты

‘For the Putin regime, Muslims are now a very enticing prospect’

The anti-Semitic riot in Dagestan has undermined the claims of religious harmony made by Russia’s religious leaders

Сюжеты

Never again… until now

Russian officials are attempting to supplant Halloween with a more Slavic but totally invented Pumpkin Feast

Сюжеты

Hallow gestures

Migrants, soldiers, the LGBT community, and anyone critical of the war have all come under closer scrutiny by Russian prosecutors in the past year and a half

Дата-исследование

Unusual suspects

Russian officials are attempting to supplant Halloween with a more Slavic but totally invented Pumpkin Feast

Сюжеты

Hallow gestures

Migrants, soldiers, the LGBT community, and anyone critical of the war have all come under closer scrutiny by Russian prosecutors in the past year and a half

Дата-исследование

Unusual suspects

Why Russian voters shouldn’t simply boycott next year’s sham presidential election

Комментарий

A losing battle worth the fight

An anti-war activist in the city of Ivanovo, northeast of Moscow, dies in unexplained circumstances

Сюжеты

A woman who knew no fear

A St. Petersburg region minor who suffers from an incurable disease is facing up to 15 years in jail for the attempted arson of a military recruitment office

Сюжеты

‘My son couldn’t have lived differently’

Сюжеты

Every man for himself

Long queues have formed at the only border crossing from Russia into Ukraine, forcing some people to spend the night in the cold, while others attempt to profit from the situation

Why Russian voters shouldn’t simply boycott next year’s sham presidential election

Комментарий

A losing battle worth the fight

An anti-war activist in the city of Ivanovo, northeast of Moscow, dies in unexplained circumstances

Сюжеты

A woman who knew no fear

A St. Petersburg region minor who suffers from an incurable disease is facing up to 15 years in jail for the attempted arson of a military recruitment office

Сюжеты

‘My son couldn’t have lived differently’

Сюжеты

Every man for himself

Long queues have formed at the only border crossing from Russia into Ukraine, forcing some people to spend the night in the cold, while others attempt to profit from the situation

Has the adulation of empire and the apotheosis of Russia’s nuclear deterrent supplanted the Russian Orthodox Church as the new national religion?

Комментарий

Hallowed be thy bomb

Has the adulation of empire and the apotheosis of Russia’s nuclear deterrent supplanted the Russian Orthodox Church as the new national religion?

Комментарий

Hallowed be thy bomb

The arrest of a Russian-American journalist in Kazan for failing to register as a foreign agent has been condemned by advocates of press freedom around the world

Сюжеты

Hand yourself in

Russia has taken steps to stabilise the ruble while continuing to downplay the impact its weakening value could have on society

Data

Trouble ahead

Ramzan Kadyrov has made himself indispensable to the Kremlin as the brutal force that ensures Chechnya’s stability

Сюжеты

Putin’s footsoldier

The arrest of a Russian-American journalist in Kazan for failing to register as a foreign agent has been condemned by advocates of press freedom around the world

Сюжеты

Hand yourself in

Russia has taken steps to stabilise the ruble while continuing to downplay the impact its weakening value could have on society

Data

Trouble ahead

Ramzan Kadyrov has made himself indispensable to the Kremlin as the brutal force that ensures Chechnya’s stability

Сюжеты

Putin’s footsoldier

Three lawyers representing jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny were arrested in Moscow last week in what appears to have been a warning against defending political prisoners

Комментарий

Rough justice

Police in southern Russia raided the church of an 86-year-old priest who dared to speak out against the war in Ukraine last week

Сюжеты

Troublesome priests

Three lawyers representing jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny were arrested in Moscow last week in what appears to have been a warning against defending political prisoners

Комментарий

Rough justice

Police in southern Russia raided the church of an 86-year-old priest who dared to speak out against the war in Ukraine last week

Сюжеты

Troublesome priests

The Russian military has been using penal military battalions to ensure a ready supply of cannon fodder for its war in Ukraine

Сюжеты

Assisted dying

The Moscow local politician who refuses to be intimidated

Сюжеты

Staying the distance

A Ukrainian prisoner abducted by the Russian military during its retreat from Kherson last year describes the brutal 10-month ordeal he and 250 of his fellow inmates shared

Сюжеты

The Great Escape

A special project about how the Kremlin has forbidden families of soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine to mourn

Дата

Mortal regiment

The Russian military has been using penal military battalions to ensure a ready supply of cannon fodder for its war in Ukraine

Сюжеты

Assisted dying

The Moscow local politician who refuses to be intimidated

Сюжеты

Staying the distance

A Ukrainian prisoner abducted by the Russian military during its retreat from Kherson last year describes the brutal 10-month ordeal he and 250 of his fellow inmates shared

Сюжеты

The Great Escape

A special project about how the Kremlin has forbidden families of soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine to mourn

Дата

Mortal regiment

How a St. Petersburg artist’s unique protest against the war could cost her a decade in jail

Репортажи

Supermarket samizdat

How a St. Petersburg artist’s unique protest against the war could cost her a decade in jail

Репортажи

Supermarket samizdat

A mercenary from Russia’s notorious Wagner Group describes his realisation that the real enemy he faced in Ukraine was Russia’s military leadership

Сюжеты

Closing ranks

How Ramzan Kadyrov violated Russia's greatest taboo

Колонка

A slap in the face of public taste

What became of the Russian conscripts who denounced the poor conditions they faced in Ukraine?

Сюжеты

Catching flak

A mercenary from Russia’s notorious Wagner Group describes his realisation that the real enemy he faced in Ukraine was Russia’s military leadership

Сюжеты

Closing ranks

How Ramzan Kadyrov violated Russia's greatest taboo

Колонка

A slap in the face of public taste

What became of the Russian conscripts who denounced the poor conditions they faced in Ukraine?

Сюжеты

Catching flak

Russia’s media regulator has proposed blocking any website that provides instructions on circumventing online censorship

Комментарий

Proxy war

Колонка

The mask slips

Russia’s media regulator has proposed blocking any website that provides instructions on circumventing online censorship

Комментарий

Proxy war

Колонка

The mask slips

Mired in corruption and increasingly unable to meet procurement contracts due to a lack of components, Russia’s defence manufacturers find themselves in a precarious position

Дата-исследование

Last chance saloon

Foreign students are enrolling at Russian universities in record numbers despite the war in Ukraine showing no signs of ending

Сюжеты

Russia’s brain gain

What clues might last weekend’s regional elections give us about what to expect from Russia’s fast-approaching presidential race next year?

Сюжеты

‘They’ll just say everyone voted for Putin online’

A viral video of a Muslim woman being harassed on the Moscow metro suggests a wider trend of intolerance may be afoot in the Russian capital

Сюжеты

Culture wars

Mired in corruption and increasingly unable to meet procurement contracts due to a lack of components, Russia’s defence manufacturers find themselves in a precarious position

Дата-исследование

Last chance saloon

Foreign students are enrolling at Russian universities in record numbers despite the war in Ukraine showing no signs of ending

Сюжеты

Russia’s brain gain

What clues might last weekend’s regional elections give us about what to expect from Russia’s fast-approaching presidential race next year?

Сюжеты

‘They’ll just say everyone voted for Putin online’

A viral video of a Muslim woman being harassed on the Moscow metro suggests a wider trend of intolerance may be afoot in the Russian capital

Сюжеты

Culture wars

Anyone recently granted Russian citizenship can now expect to be press-ganged into the military to fight in Ukraine. How did a Russian passport become synonymous with a ticket to the frontline?

Дата-исследование

The ultimate citizenship test

Anyone recently granted Russian citizenship can now expect to be press-ganged into the military to fight in Ukraine. How did a Russian passport become synonymous with a ticket to the frontline?

Дата-исследование

The ultimate citizenship test

Who are the judges imposing decades-long jail sentences on anyone criticising Putin’s war in Ukraine?

Сюжеты

Courting favour

Russian athletes planning to compete as neutrals at next year’s Olympics could face sabotage from their own government as it plans a boycott of the Paris Games

Сюжеты

The games we play

How Russia’s ‘stubborn majority’ of war-indifferent people was born

Комментарий

Putin’s master plan

Who are the judges imposing decades-long jail sentences on anyone criticising Putin’s war in Ukraine?

Сюжеты

Courting favour

Russian athletes planning to compete as neutrals at next year’s Olympics could face sabotage from their own government as it plans a boycott of the Paris Games

Сюжеты

The games we play

How Russia’s ‘stubborn majority’ of war-indifferent people was born

Комментарий

Putin’s master plan

Who else was on the Wagner chief’s jet that crashed in Russia?

Комментарий

Prigozhin’s last crew

Why is the Kremlin so certain that Putin will receive 90% of the votes during the 2024 presidential elections?

Сюжеты

‘No dictator is bothered by elections’

Who else was on the Wagner chief’s jet that crashed in Russia?

Комментарий

Prigozhin’s last crew

Why is the Kremlin so certain that Putin will receive 90% of the votes during the 2024 presidential elections?

Сюжеты

‘No dictator is bothered by elections’

Where has all this money gone and why is it dangerous for the economy?

Дата-исследование

Cashing in: Russia’s cash flow soars by almost €40 bn since Ukraine war began

For many Russians, going to war is the only way to escape poverty. Novaya-Europe delves into how the Kremlin put a price on Russian lives

Дата-исследование

Till death make us rich

From mayoral candidate to Russia’s premiere political prisoner. A photo gallery

photo gallery

Navalny’s decade

A breakdown of Russia’s new mobilisation and conscription laws

Дата-исследование

‘Full-scale war on the horizon’: new laws could add up to 5 million soldiers to Russia’s army

Where has all this money gone and why is it dangerous for the economy?

Дата-исследование

Cashing in: Russia’s cash flow soars by almost €40 bn since Ukraine war began

For many Russians, going to war is the only way to escape poverty. Novaya-Europe delves into how the Kremlin put a price on Russian lives

Дата-исследование

Till death make us rich

From mayoral candidate to Russia’s premiere political prisoner. A photo gallery

photo gallery

Navalny’s decade

A breakdown of Russia’s new mobilisation and conscription laws

Дата-исследование

‘Full-scale war on the horizon’: new laws could add up to 5 million soldiers to Russia’s army

The story of a Russian missile operator who deserted his unit and fled the country

Сюжеты

‘I am literally complicit in these crimes’: Confession of a Russian deserter

The story of a Russian missile operator who deserted his unit and fled the country

Сюжеты

‘I am literally complicit in these crimes’: Confession of a Russian deserter

Burnings of schoolgirls and rapings of cats — Russia is experiencing a surge in violence. Is it the new norm or is it just media hype?

Сюжеты

Russian Horror Story

Elena Isinbayeva, Aleksandr Kerzhakov, and other former Putin loyalists — how have their allegiances changed?

Сюжеты

Athletes and the rules of the game

The top judge has backed all of the Kremlin’s initiatives over the past 20 years

Сюжеты

A portrait of Valery Zorkin, chairman of Russia’s Constitutional Court

Burnings of schoolgirls and rapings of cats — Russia is experiencing a surge in violence. Is it the new norm or is it just media hype?

Сюжеты

Russian Horror Story

Elena Isinbayeva, Aleksandr Kerzhakov, and other former Putin loyalists — how have their allegiances changed?

Сюжеты

Athletes and the rules of the game

The top judge has backed all of the Kremlin’s initiatives over the past 20 years

Сюжеты

A portrait of Valery Zorkin, chairman of Russia’s Constitutional Court

A demographer explains the recent decline in newborns

Сюжеты

What is behind the falling birth rate in Russia?

Russia seeks to forbid trans persons from changing their gender marker in documents, undergoing gender-affirming therapy, and adopting children

Сюжеты

Hostages of gender and government

A demographer explains the recent decline in newborns

Сюжеты

What is behind the falling birth rate in Russia?

Russia seeks to forbid trans persons from changing their gender marker in documents, undergoing gender-affirming therapy, and adopting children

Сюжеты

Hostages of gender and government

A year in the life of Russian journalist Elizaveta Kirpanova, who had to flee her home country and start over in the USA

Репортажи

How I sought asylum in the US

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s ‘troll factory’ is no more. We spoke to former employees of Prigozhin’s media empire about what they used to do for a living

Сюжеты

Trollsbane

How Russia’s schools and kindergartens teach children to love the war and even recruit them to the frontline: Novaya-Europe’s research

Дата-исследование

School of war

His wife reveals corruption and intimidation schemes used by his command

Сюжеты

Russian serviceman faces jail time for refusing to go to Ukraine war

A year in the life of Russian journalist Elizaveta Kirpanova, who had to flee her home country and start over in the USA

Репортажи

How I sought asylum in the US

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s ‘troll factory’ is no more. We spoke to former employees of Prigozhin’s media empire about what they used to do for a living

Сюжеты

Trollsbane

How Russia’s schools and kindergartens teach children to love the war and even recruit them to the frontline: Novaya-Europe’s research

Дата-исследование

School of war

His wife reveals corruption and intimidation schemes used by his command

Сюжеты

Russian serviceman faces jail time for refusing to go to Ukraine war

The blogger was recently lambasted by the Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin for not joining the Ukraine war as a combatant

Сюжеты

A portrait of Alexey Stolyarov, Russian defence minister’s son-in-law

The blogger was recently lambasted by the Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin for not joining the Ukraine war as a combatant

Сюжеты

A portrait of Alexey Stolyarov, Russian defence minister’s son-in-law

The bill banning gender reassignment follows its own warped logic

Колонка

Why has Kremlin decided to target transgender people in the midst of war?

Activist Anatoly Berezikov, 40, died in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don jail for minor offenders on 14 June. He may have been tortured there

Сюжеты

‘I’m afraid I won’t make it to 15 June’

All priests who speak out against the Ukraine war will be prosecuted

Сюжеты

Russian Orthodox Church officially renounces pacifism

The bill banning gender reassignment follows its own warped logic

Колонка

Why has Kremlin decided to target transgender people in the midst of war?

Activist Anatoly Berezikov, 40, died in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don jail for minor offenders on 14 June. He may have been tortured there

Сюжеты

‘I’m afraid I won’t make it to 15 June’

All priests who speak out against the Ukraine war will be prosecuted

Сюжеты

Russian Orthodox Church officially renounces pacifism

The profits of Western businesses that decided to stay in Russia have skyrocketed — in 2022, the top-100 of these firms made over €12 billion. Novaya-Europe investigates

Дата-исследование

The ones that remained

How different groups of Russians justify the war — from confident supporters to ‘new patriots’ who initially didn’t support the invasion. A study by PS Lab

Study

‘With each day, you realise that you’re not to blame for anything’

The profits of Western businesses that decided to stay in Russia have skyrocketed — in 2022, the top-100 of these firms made over €12 billion. Novaya-Europe investigates

Дата-исследование

The ones that remained

How different groups of Russians justify the war — from confident supporters to ‘new patriots’ who initially didn’t support the invasion. A study by PS Lab

Study

‘With each day, you realise that you’re not to blame for anything’

Russia is waging a war against its own scientists: special services are searching for traitors among prominent and elderly physicists. Not all of them live to hear the verdict

Сюжеты

Too smart for their own good

The state has learned how to block major VPN services, but there are still ways to get around censorship

Дата-исследование

Russia leads globally in VPN service expansion despite government crackdown

Two-thirds of all factories came to a standstill, while the rest are assembling Chinese models

Сюжеты

A car crash you can’t look away from: Russian car production industry plummets after Ukraine war

The story of Victor Pivovarov, a Russian archbishop who is not afraid to criticise the war in Ukraine

Репортажи

‘I’m waiting to be killed or imprisoned’

Russia is waging a war against its own scientists: special services are searching for traitors among prominent and elderly physicists. Not all of them live to hear the verdict

Сюжеты

Too smart for their own good

The state has learned how to block major VPN services, but there are still ways to get around censorship

Дата-исследование

Russia leads globally in VPN service expansion despite government crackdown

Two-thirds of all factories came to a standstill, while the rest are assembling Chinese models

Сюжеты

A car crash you can’t look away from: Russian car production industry plummets after Ukraine war

The story of Victor Pivovarov, a Russian archbishop who is not afraid to criticise the war in Ukraine

Репортажи

‘I’m waiting to be killed or imprisoned’

A surge of contract service ads has been recorded on Russian social media. Novaya-Europe investigates

Дата-исследование

Military ad campaigns reach Russian schools, metro stations, and kindergartens

A surge of contract service ads has been recorded on Russian social media. Novaya-Europe investigates

Дата-исследование

Military ad campaigns reach Russian schools, metro stations, and kindergartens

In Russia’s Far East, encounters between locals and tigers have become more and more frequent over the past year. People are asking for Putin’s help but are met with either inaction or silence

Сюжеты

’What if a tiger snatches and carries me away?’

Pro-Putin blogger and ‘war correspondent’ Vladlen Tatarsky killed in St. Petersburg. Z-propagandists are starting to worry about their safety

Сюжеты

‘We’ll kill everyone, we’ll rob everyone who needs to be robbed’

The Peaceful Art Protest, an exhibition by Elena Osipova, “St. Petersburg’s conscience”, was defiantly opened to the public. And then promptly shut down

Сюжеты

‘What can be scarier than what’s happening now?’

In Russia’s Far East, encounters between locals and tigers have become more and more frequent over the past year. People are asking for Putin’s help but are met with either inaction or silence

Сюжеты

’What if a tiger snatches and carries me away?’

Pro-Putin blogger and ‘war correspondent’ Vladlen Tatarsky killed in St. Petersburg. Z-propagandists are starting to worry about their safety

Сюжеты

‘We’ll kill everyone, we’ll rob everyone who needs to be robbed’

The Peaceful Art Protest, an exhibition by Elena Osipova, “St. Petersburg’s conscience”, was defiantly opened to the public. And then promptly shut down

Сюжеты

‘What can be scarier than what’s happening now?’

For all of 2022, Moscow’s mayor avoided showing public support for the war. But questions to Sobyanin have now turned into demands for an answer

Сюжеты

No way back

27 mobilised Russians who retreated near Svatove are being threatened with prison time for desertion

Сюжеты

‘It was going so great before our homeland betrayed them’

For all of 2022, Moscow’s mayor avoided showing public support for the war. But questions to Sobyanin have now turned into demands for an answer

Сюжеты

No way back

27 mobilised Russians who retreated near Svatove are being threatened with prison time for desertion

Сюжеты

‘It was going so great before our homeland betrayed them’

A Moscow draft board chief is mobilising marksmen under the accelerated programme — it takes him several minutes to turn a man into a marksman

Сюжеты

‘Light a candle for your husband and get the hell out of my office’

This is how women of Saint Petersburg are trying to bring their mobilised husbands back home

Сюжеты

‘Your husbands belong to the Defence Ministry’

Villages in Dagestan are showing the rest of Russia how to resist the draft

Сюжеты

The spine of the Caucasus

An overview of Tsargrad, a Russian conservative media outlet that unites war propaganda and tabloid journalism

Сюжеты

Press the tsar button

A Moscow draft board chief is mobilising marksmen under the accelerated programme — it takes him several minutes to turn a man into a marksman

Сюжеты

‘Light a candle for your husband and get the hell out of my office’

This is how women of Saint Petersburg are trying to bring their mobilised husbands back home

Сюжеты

‘Your husbands belong to the Defence Ministry’

Villages in Dagestan are showing the rest of Russia how to resist the draft

Сюжеты

The spine of the Caucasus

An overview of Tsargrad, a Russian conservative media outlet that unites war propaganda and tabloid journalism

Сюжеты

Press the tsar button

Foreign medicines that do not have analogues on the Russian market are either becoming too expensive or disappearing from pharmacies altogether

Сюжеты

‘We’ll soon be treating anaemia with nails’

Foreign medicines that do not have analogues on the Russian market are either becoming too expensive or disappearing from pharmacies altogether

Сюжеты

‘We’ll soon be treating anaemia with nails’

A story of how Detective Morozov of the FSB and Irina Aliyeva, the judge, sent a terminally ill scientist to die in jail

Сюжеты

The undead

After 3 months, police have still not opened a case on the attack on Dmitry Muratov. Yet, the suspects are linked to special forces and nationalists

Расследования

Painted with the same brush

A story of how Detective Morozov of the FSB and Irina Aliyeva, the judge, sent a terminally ill scientist to die in jail

Сюжеты

The undead

After 3 months, police have still not opened a case on the attack on Dmitry Muratov. Yet, the suspects are linked to special forces and nationalists

Расследования

Painted with the same brush

A Russian teenager sentenced to six years for attempting to set fire to a military recruitment office speaks out in court

Новости

‘Do you still need this war?’

A Russian teenager sentenced to six years for attempting to set fire to a military recruitment office speaks out in court

Новости

‘Do you still need this war?’

Why has the Kremlin decided to reinstate Putin’s annual live call-in event this year?

Комментарий

Summoning the leader

Social anthropologist and North Caucasus expert Denis Sokolov gives his analysis of last Sunday’s anti-Semitic riot in Dagestan

Сюжеты

‘For the Putin regime, Muslims are now a very enticing prospect’

The anti-Semitic riot in Dagestan has undermined the claims of religious harmony made by Russia’s religious leaders

Сюжеты

Never again… until now

Why has the Kremlin decided to reinstate Putin’s annual live call-in event this year?

Комментарий

Summoning the leader

Social anthropologist and North Caucasus expert Denis Sokolov gives his analysis of last Sunday’s anti-Semitic riot in Dagestan

Сюжеты

‘For the Putin regime, Muslims are now a very enticing prospect’

The anti-Semitic riot in Dagestan has undermined the claims of religious harmony made by Russia’s religious leaders

Сюжеты

Never again… until now

Russian officials are attempting to supplant Halloween with a more Slavic but totally invented Pumpkin Feast

Сюжеты

Hallow gestures

Migrants, soldiers, the LGBT community, and anyone critical of the war have all come under closer scrutiny by Russian prosecutors in the past year and a half

Дата-исследование

Unusual suspects

Russian officials are attempting to supplant Halloween with a more Slavic but totally invented Pumpkin Feast

Сюжеты

Hallow gestures

Migrants, soldiers, the LGBT community, and anyone critical of the war have all come under closer scrutiny by Russian prosecutors in the past year and a half

Дата-исследование

Unusual suspects

Why Russian voters shouldn’t simply boycott next year’s sham presidential election

Комментарий

A losing battle worth the fight

An anti-war activist in the city of Ivanovo, northeast of Moscow, dies in unexplained circumstances

Сюжеты

A woman who knew no fear

A St. Petersburg region minor who suffers from an incurable disease is facing up to 15 years in jail for the attempted arson of a military recruitment office

Сюжеты

‘My son couldn’t have lived differently’

Сюжеты

Every man for himself

Long queues have formed at the only border crossing from Russia into Ukraine, forcing some people to spend the night in the cold, while others attempt to profit from the situation

Why Russian voters shouldn’t simply boycott next year’s sham presidential election

Комментарий

A losing battle worth the fight

An anti-war activist in the city of Ivanovo, northeast of Moscow, dies in unexplained circumstances

Сюжеты

A woman who knew no fear

A St. Petersburg region minor who suffers from an incurable disease is facing up to 15 years in jail for the attempted arson of a military recruitment office

Сюжеты

‘My son couldn’t have lived differently’

Сюжеты

Every man for himself

Long queues have formed at the only border crossing from Russia into Ukraine, forcing some people to spend the night in the cold, while others attempt to profit from the situation

Has the adulation of empire and the apotheosis of Russia’s nuclear deterrent supplanted the Russian Orthodox Church as the new national religion?

Комментарий

Hallowed be thy bomb

Has the adulation of empire and the apotheosis of Russia’s nuclear deterrent supplanted the Russian Orthodox Church as the new national religion?

Комментарий

Hallowed be thy bomb

The arrest of a Russian-American journalist in Kazan for failing to register as a foreign agent has been condemned by advocates of press freedom around the world

Сюжеты

Hand yourself in

Russia has taken steps to stabilise the ruble while continuing to downplay the impact its weakening value could have on society

Data

Trouble ahead

Ramzan Kadyrov has made himself indispensable to the Kremlin as the brutal force that ensures Chechnya’s stability

Сюжеты

Putin’s footsoldier

The arrest of a Russian-American journalist in Kazan for failing to register as a foreign agent has been condemned by advocates of press freedom around the world

Сюжеты

Hand yourself in

Russia has taken steps to stabilise the ruble while continuing to downplay the impact its weakening value could have on society

Data

Trouble ahead

Ramzan Kadyrov has made himself indispensable to the Kremlin as the brutal force that ensures Chechnya’s stability

Сюжеты

Putin’s footsoldier

Three lawyers representing jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny were arrested in Moscow last week in what appears to have been a warning against defending political prisoners

Комментарий

Rough justice

Police in southern Russia raided the church of an 86-year-old priest who dared to speak out against the war in Ukraine last week

Сюжеты

Troublesome priests

Three lawyers representing jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny were arrested in Moscow last week in what appears to have been a warning against defending political prisoners

Комментарий

Rough justice

Police in southern Russia raided the church of an 86-year-old priest who dared to speak out against the war in Ukraine last week

Сюжеты

Troublesome priests

The Russian military has been using penal military battalions to ensure a ready supply of cannon fodder for its war in Ukraine

Сюжеты

Assisted dying

The Moscow local politician who refuses to be intimidated

Сюжеты

Staying the distance

A Ukrainian prisoner abducted by the Russian military during its retreat from Kherson last year describes the brutal 10-month ordeal he and 250 of his fellow inmates shared

Сюжеты

The Great Escape

A special project about how the Kremlin has forbidden families of soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine to mourn

Дата

Mortal regiment

The Russian military has been using penal military battalions to ensure a ready supply of cannon fodder for its war in Ukraine

Сюжеты

Assisted dying

The Moscow local politician who refuses to be intimidated

Сюжеты

Staying the distance

A Ukrainian prisoner abducted by the Russian military during its retreat from Kherson last year describes the brutal 10-month ordeal he and 250 of his fellow inmates shared

Сюжеты

The Great Escape

A special project about how the Kremlin has forbidden families of soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine to mourn

Дата

Mortal regiment

How a St. Petersburg artist’s unique protest against the war could cost her a decade in jail

Репортажи

Supermarket samizdat

How a St. Petersburg artist’s unique protest against the war could cost her a decade in jail

Репортажи

Supermarket samizdat

A mercenary from Russia’s notorious Wagner Group describes his realisation that the real enemy he faced in Ukraine was Russia’s military leadership

Сюжеты

Closing ranks

How Ramzan Kadyrov violated Russia's greatest taboo

Колонка

A slap in the face of public taste

What became of the Russian conscripts who denounced the poor conditions they faced in Ukraine?

Сюжеты

Catching flak

A mercenary from Russia’s notorious Wagner Group describes his realisation that the real enemy he faced in Ukraine was Russia’s military leadership

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Closing ranks

How Ramzan Kadyrov violated Russia's greatest taboo

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A slap in the face of public taste

What became of the Russian conscripts who denounced the poor conditions they faced in Ukraine?

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Catching flak

Russia’s media regulator has proposed blocking any website that provides instructions on circumventing online censorship

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Proxy war

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The mask slips

Russia’s media regulator has proposed blocking any website that provides instructions on circumventing online censorship

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Proxy war

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The mask slips

Mired in corruption and increasingly unable to meet procurement contracts due to a lack of components, Russia’s defence manufacturers find themselves in a precarious position

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Last chance saloon

Foreign students are enrolling at Russian universities in record numbers despite the war in Ukraine showing no signs of ending

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Russia’s brain gain

What clues might last weekend’s regional elections give us about what to expect from Russia’s fast-approaching presidential race next year?

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‘They’ll just say everyone voted for Putin online’

A viral video of a Muslim woman being harassed on the Moscow metro suggests a wider trend of intolerance may be afoot in the Russian capital

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Culture wars

Mired in corruption and increasingly unable to meet procurement contracts due to a lack of components, Russia’s defence manufacturers find themselves in a precarious position

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Last chance saloon

Foreign students are enrolling at Russian universities in record numbers despite the war in Ukraine showing no signs of ending

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Russia’s brain gain

What clues might last weekend’s regional elections give us about what to expect from Russia’s fast-approaching presidential race next year?

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‘They’ll just say everyone voted for Putin online’

A viral video of a Muslim woman being harassed on the Moscow metro suggests a wider trend of intolerance may be afoot in the Russian capital

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Culture wars

Anyone recently granted Russian citizenship can now expect to be press-ganged into the military to fight in Ukraine. How did a Russian passport become synonymous with a ticket to the frontline?

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The ultimate citizenship test

Anyone recently granted Russian citizenship can now expect to be press-ganged into the military to fight in Ukraine. How did a Russian passport become synonymous with a ticket to the frontline?

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The ultimate citizenship test

Who are the judges imposing decades-long jail sentences on anyone criticising Putin’s war in Ukraine?

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Courting favour

Russian athletes planning to compete as neutrals at next year’s Olympics could face sabotage from their own government as it plans a boycott of the Paris Games

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The games we play

How Russia’s ‘stubborn majority’ of war-indifferent people was born

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Putin’s master plan

Who are the judges imposing decades-long jail sentences on anyone criticising Putin’s war in Ukraine?

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Courting favour

Russian athletes planning to compete as neutrals at next year’s Olympics could face sabotage from their own government as it plans a boycott of the Paris Games

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The games we play

How Russia’s ‘stubborn majority’ of war-indifferent people was born

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Putin’s master plan

Who else was on the Wagner chief’s jet that crashed in Russia?

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Prigozhin’s last crew

Why is the Kremlin so certain that Putin will receive 90% of the votes during the 2024 presidential elections?

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‘No dictator is bothered by elections’

Who else was on the Wagner chief’s jet that crashed in Russia?

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Prigozhin’s last crew

Why is the Kremlin so certain that Putin will receive 90% of the votes during the 2024 presidential elections?

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‘No dictator is bothered by elections’

Where has all this money gone and why is it dangerous for the economy?

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Cashing in: Russia’s cash flow soars by almost €40 bn since Ukraine war began

For many Russians, going to war is the only way to escape poverty. Novaya-Europe delves into how the Kremlin put a price on Russian lives

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Till death make us rich

From mayoral candidate to Russia’s premiere political prisoner. A photo gallery

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Navalny’s decade

A breakdown of Russia’s new mobilisation and conscription laws

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‘Full-scale war on the horizon’: new laws could add up to 5 million soldiers to Russia’s army

Where has all this money gone and why is it dangerous for the economy?

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Cashing in: Russia’s cash flow soars by almost €40 bn since Ukraine war began

For many Russians, going to war is the only way to escape poverty. Novaya-Europe delves into how the Kremlin put a price on Russian lives

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Till death make us rich

From mayoral candidate to Russia’s premiere political prisoner. A photo gallery

photo gallery

Navalny’s decade

A breakdown of Russia’s new mobilisation and conscription laws

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‘Full-scale war on the horizon’: new laws could add up to 5 million soldiers to Russia’s army

The story of a Russian missile operator who deserted his unit and fled the country

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‘I am literally complicit in these crimes’: Confession of a Russian deserter

The story of a Russian missile operator who deserted his unit and fled the country

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‘I am literally complicit in these crimes’: Confession of a Russian deserter

Burnings of schoolgirls and rapings of cats — Russia is experiencing a surge in violence. Is it the new norm or is it just media hype?

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Russian Horror Story

Elena Isinbayeva, Aleksandr Kerzhakov, and other former Putin loyalists — how have their allegiances changed?

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Athletes and the rules of the game

The top judge has backed all of the Kremlin’s initiatives over the past 20 years

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A portrait of Valery Zorkin, chairman of Russia’s Constitutional Court

Burnings of schoolgirls and rapings of cats — Russia is experiencing a surge in violence. Is it the new norm or is it just media hype?

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Russian Horror Story

Elena Isinbayeva, Aleksandr Kerzhakov, and other former Putin loyalists — how have their allegiances changed?

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Athletes and the rules of the game

The top judge has backed all of the Kremlin’s initiatives over the past 20 years

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A portrait of Valery Zorkin, chairman of Russia’s Constitutional Court

A demographer explains the recent decline in newborns

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What is behind the falling birth rate in Russia?

Russia seeks to forbid trans persons from changing their gender marker in documents, undergoing gender-affirming therapy, and adopting children

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Hostages of gender and government

A demographer explains the recent decline in newborns

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What is behind the falling birth rate in Russia?

Russia seeks to forbid trans persons from changing their gender marker in documents, undergoing gender-affirming therapy, and adopting children

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Hostages of gender and government

A year in the life of Russian journalist Elizaveta Kirpanova, who had to flee her home country and start over in the USA

Репортажи

How I sought asylum in the US

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s ‘troll factory’ is no more. We spoke to former employees of Prigozhin’s media empire about what they used to do for a living

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Trollsbane

How Russia’s schools and kindergartens teach children to love the war and even recruit them to the frontline: Novaya-Europe’s research

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School of war

His wife reveals corruption and intimidation schemes used by his command

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Russian serviceman faces jail time for refusing to go to Ukraine war

A year in the life of Russian journalist Elizaveta Kirpanova, who had to flee her home country and start over in the USA

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How I sought asylum in the US

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s ‘troll factory’ is no more. We spoke to former employees of Prigozhin’s media empire about what they used to do for a living

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Trollsbane

How Russia’s schools and kindergartens teach children to love the war and even recruit them to the frontline: Novaya-Europe’s research

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School of war

His wife reveals corruption and intimidation schemes used by his command

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Russian serviceman faces jail time for refusing to go to Ukraine war

The blogger was recently lambasted by the Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin for not joining the Ukraine war as a combatant

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A portrait of Alexey Stolyarov, Russian defence minister’s son-in-law

The blogger was recently lambasted by the Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin for not joining the Ukraine war as a combatant

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A portrait of Alexey Stolyarov, Russian defence minister’s son-in-law

The bill banning gender reassignment follows its own warped logic

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Why has Kremlin decided to target transgender people in the midst of war?

Activist Anatoly Berezikov, 40, died in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don jail for minor offenders on 14 June. He may have been tortured there

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‘I’m afraid I won’t make it to 15 June’

All priests who speak out against the Ukraine war will be prosecuted

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Russian Orthodox Church officially renounces pacifism

The bill banning gender reassignment follows its own warped logic

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Why has Kremlin decided to target transgender people in the midst of war?

Activist Anatoly Berezikov, 40, died in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don jail for minor offenders on 14 June. He may have been tortured there

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‘I’m afraid I won’t make it to 15 June’

All priests who speak out against the Ukraine war will be prosecuted

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Russian Orthodox Church officially renounces pacifism

The profits of Western businesses that decided to stay in Russia have skyrocketed — in 2022, the top-100 of these firms made over €12 billion. Novaya-Europe investigates

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The ones that remained

How different groups of Russians justify the war — from confident supporters to ‘new patriots’ who initially didn’t support the invasion. A study by PS Lab

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‘With each day, you realise that you’re not to blame for anything’

The profits of Western businesses that decided to stay in Russia have skyrocketed — in 2022, the top-100 of these firms made over €12 billion. Novaya-Europe investigates

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The ones that remained

How different groups of Russians justify the war — from confident supporters to ‘new patriots’ who initially didn’t support the invasion. A study by PS Lab

Study

‘With each day, you realise that you’re not to blame for anything’

Russia is waging a war against its own scientists: special services are searching for traitors among prominent and elderly physicists. Not all of them live to hear the verdict

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Too smart for their own good

The state has learned how to block major VPN services, but there are still ways to get around censorship

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Russia leads globally in VPN service expansion despite government crackdown

Two-thirds of all factories came to a standstill, while the rest are assembling Chinese models

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A car crash you can’t look away from: Russian car production industry plummets after Ukraine war

The story of Victor Pivovarov, a Russian archbishop who is not afraid to criticise the war in Ukraine

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‘I’m waiting to be killed or imprisoned’

Russia is waging a war against its own scientists: special services are searching for traitors among prominent and elderly physicists. Not all of them live to hear the verdict

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Too smart for their own good

The state has learned how to block major VPN services, but there are still ways to get around censorship

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Russia leads globally in VPN service expansion despite government crackdown

Two-thirds of all factories came to a standstill, while the rest are assembling Chinese models

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A car crash you can’t look away from: Russian car production industry plummets after Ukraine war

The story of Victor Pivovarov, a Russian archbishop who is not afraid to criticise the war in Ukraine

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‘I’m waiting to be killed or imprisoned’

A surge of contract service ads has been recorded on Russian social media. Novaya-Europe investigates

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Military ad campaigns reach Russian schools, metro stations, and kindergartens

A surge of contract service ads has been recorded on Russian social media. Novaya-Europe investigates

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Military ad campaigns reach Russian schools, metro stations, and kindergartens

In Russia’s Far East, encounters between locals and tigers have become more and more frequent over the past year. People are asking for Putin’s help but are met with either inaction or silence

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’What if a tiger snatches and carries me away?’

Pro-Putin blogger and ‘war correspondent’ Vladlen Tatarsky killed in St. Petersburg. Z-propagandists are starting to worry about their safety

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‘We’ll kill everyone, we’ll rob everyone who needs to be robbed’

The Peaceful Art Protest, an exhibition by Elena Osipova, “St. Petersburg’s conscience”, was defiantly opened to the public. And then promptly shut down

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‘What can be scarier than what’s happening now?’

In Russia’s Far East, encounters between locals and tigers have become more and more frequent over the past year. People are asking for Putin’s help but are met with either inaction or silence

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’What if a tiger snatches and carries me away?’

Pro-Putin blogger and ‘war correspondent’ Vladlen Tatarsky killed in St. Petersburg. Z-propagandists are starting to worry about their safety

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‘We’ll kill everyone, we’ll rob everyone who needs to be robbed’

The Peaceful Art Protest, an exhibition by Elena Osipova, “St. Petersburg’s conscience”, was defiantly opened to the public. And then promptly shut down

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‘What can be scarier than what’s happening now?’

For all of 2022, Moscow’s mayor avoided showing public support for the war. But questions to Sobyanin have now turned into demands for an answer

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No way back

27 mobilised Russians who retreated near Svatove are being threatened with prison time for desertion

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‘It was going so great before our homeland betrayed them’

For all of 2022, Moscow’s mayor avoided showing public support for the war. But questions to Sobyanin have now turned into demands for an answer

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No way back

27 mobilised Russians who retreated near Svatove are being threatened with prison time for desertion

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‘It was going so great before our homeland betrayed them’

A Moscow draft board chief is mobilising marksmen under the accelerated programme — it takes him several minutes to turn a man into a marksman

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‘Light a candle for your husband and get the hell out of my office’

This is how women of Saint Petersburg are trying to bring their mobilised husbands back home

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‘Your husbands belong to the Defence Ministry’

Villages in Dagestan are showing the rest of Russia how to resist the draft

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The spine of the Caucasus

An overview of Tsargrad, a Russian conservative media outlet that unites war propaganda and tabloid journalism

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Press the tsar button

A Moscow draft board chief is mobilising marksmen under the accelerated programme — it takes him several minutes to turn a man into a marksman

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‘Light a candle for your husband and get the hell out of my office’

This is how women of Saint Petersburg are trying to bring their mobilised husbands back home

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‘Your husbands belong to the Defence Ministry’

Villages in Dagestan are showing the rest of Russia how to resist the draft

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The spine of the Caucasus

An overview of Tsargrad, a Russian conservative media outlet that unites war propaganda and tabloid journalism

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Press the tsar button

Foreign medicines that do not have analogues on the Russian market are either becoming too expensive or disappearing from pharmacies altogether

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‘We’ll soon be treating anaemia with nails’

Foreign medicines that do not have analogues on the Russian market are either becoming too expensive or disappearing from pharmacies altogether

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‘We’ll soon be treating anaemia with nails’

A story of how Detective Morozov of the FSB and Irina Aliyeva, the judge, sent a terminally ill scientist to die in jail

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The undead

After 3 months, police have still not opened a case on the attack on Dmitry Muratov. Yet, the suspects are linked to special forces and nationalists

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Painted with the same brush

A story of how Detective Morozov of the FSB and Irina Aliyeva, the judge, sent a terminally ill scientist to die in jail

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The undead

After 3 months, police have still not opened a case on the attack on Dmitry Muratov. Yet, the suspects are linked to special forces and nationalists

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Painted with the same brush