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Russia’s wasted decade
The World Bank has just reclassified Russia as a high-income country, but how accurate is that designation?
Natalia Glukhova
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Analysis
Russia’s wasted decade
The World Bank has just reclassified Russia as a high-income country, but how accurate is that designation?
Natalia Glukhova
-
News
Yulia Navalnaya added to Russian government list of ‘terrorists and extremists’
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Comment
Russia’s triple win
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia may find it harder to leave Russia’s sphere of influence than they think
Djoomart Otorbaev
-
News
Yulia Navalnaya added to Russian government list of ‘terrorists and extremists’
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Comment
Russia’s triple win
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia may find it harder to leave Russia’s sphere of influence than they think
Djoomart Otorbaev
-
News
Russian court sentences exiled politician Leonid Gozman to 8.5 years in absentia
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
US officials shut down Russian bot farm used to spread disinformation on X
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
Russian court upholds sentence for chairman of Memorial human rights group
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
Tatarstan introduces ‘finders fee’ for persuading others to enlist in Russian military
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
Russian court sentences exiled politician Leonid Gozman to 8.5 years in absentia
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
US officials shut down Russian bot farm used to spread disinformation on X
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
Russian court upholds sentence for chairman of Memorial human rights group
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
Tatarstan introduces ‘finders fee’ for persuading others to enlist in Russian military
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
The Alexander technique
Thirty years of Lukashenko’s dictatorship in pictures
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Europe’s lasting dictator
Alexander Lukashenko’s 30 years in power have been a tragedy for the Belarusian people and a stroke of luck for Vladimir Putin
Iryna Khalip
-
Stories
The Alexander technique
Thirty years of Lukashenko’s dictatorship in pictures
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Europe’s lasting dictator
Alexander Lukashenko’s 30 years in power have been a tragedy for the Belarusian people and a stroke of luck for Vladimir Putin
Iryna Khalip
-
Stories
‘Some go crazy within half an hour’
A Soviet dissident who spent years in solitary confinement on how political prisoners are punished in contemporary Russia
Mira Livadina
-
Stories
Full circle
Denied asylum in Russia, Afghan journalist Kobra Hassani has been forced to return to Kabul where she may face execution
Maksim Leonov
-
Comment
Unconscionable
Russia’s missile strike on a Kyiv children’s hospital marks a new low
Olga Musafirova
-
Stories
‘Some go crazy within half an hour’
A Soviet dissident who spent years in solitary confinement on how political prisoners are punished in contemporary Russia
Mira Livadina
-
Stories
Full circle
Denied asylum in Russia, Afghan journalist Kobra Hassani has been forced to return to Kabul where she may face execution
Maksim Leonov
-
Comment
Unconscionable
Russia’s missile strike on a Kyiv children’s hospital marks a new low
Olga Musafirova
-
Stories
Russian missile strike on Kyiv — in photos
People remain trapped under the rubble of a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian capital
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
‘They won’t get me’
How the Belarus regime is manipulating Interpol into arresting its enemies
Iryna Khalip
-
Stories
Russian missile strike on Kyiv — in photos
People remain trapped under the rubble of a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian capital
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
‘They won’t get me’
How the Belarus regime is manipulating Interpol into arresting its enemies
Iryna Khalip
-
Analysis
Soldiers of misfortune
Russian troops in occupied Ukraine are killing each other at an alarming rate
Sonya Richter
-
Comment
The demigods of populism
How Putin has weaponised religion to bolster his support across Russia
Nina L. Khrushcheva
-
Comment
Breaking the bank
Ukraine’s debt negotiations could decide the fate of the war
Patrick E. Shea
-
Analysis
Soldiers of misfortune
Russian troops in occupied Ukraine are killing each other at an alarming rate
Sonya Richter
-
Comment
The demigods of populism
How Putin has weaponised religion to bolster his support across Russia
Nina L. Khrushcheva
-
Comment
Breaking the bank
Ukraine’s debt negotiations could decide the fate of the war
Patrick E. Shea
-
Stories
Suspension of hostilities
What does Viktor Orbán’s surprise visit to Kyiv mean for the future of the war in Ukraine?
Olga Musafirova
-
Analysis
Looking skywards
Could the long-awaited delivery of F-16s to Ukraine change the course of the war?
Ilya Volzhsky
-
Stories
Suspension of hostilities
What does Viktor Orbán’s surprise visit to Kyiv mean for the future of the war in Ukraine?
Olga Musafirova
-
Analysis
Looking skywards
Could the long-awaited delivery of F-16s to Ukraine change the course of the war?
Ilya Volzhsky
-
Comment
Pulling the strings
Russia’s economic dependence on Beijing has given China the power to end the war in Ukraine
Renaud Foucart
-
Stories
Occupational hazard
How popular resistance in occupied Kherson was crushed and a well-known local journalist was jailed for espionage
Oleksandr Sydorenko
-
Stories
‘I didn’t do anything wrong, mum’
A schoolboy who wrote an anti-Putin leaflet has become Russia’s youngest political prisoner
Irina Garina
-
Comment
Pulling the strings
Russia’s economic dependence on Beijing has given China the power to end the war in Ukraine
Renaud Foucart
-
Stories
Occupational hazard
How popular resistance in occupied Kherson was crushed and a well-known local journalist was jailed for espionage
Oleksandr Sydorenko
-
Stories
‘I didn’t do anything wrong, mum’
A schoolboy who wrote an anti-Putin leaflet has become Russia’s youngest political prisoner
Irina Garina
-
Comment
Ukraine should have its day in court
A Russian militia leader accused of war crimes must be tried in the country whose right to exist he denies
Dan White
-
Analysis
A two pipe problem
Moscow and Beijing are no closer to agreeing terms for the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline
Denis Morokhin
-
Comment
Ukraine should have its day in court
A Russian militia leader accused of war crimes must be tried in the country whose right to exist he denies
Dan White
-
Analysis
A two pipe problem
Moscow and Beijing are no closer to agreeing terms for the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline
Denis Morokhin
-
Stories
In limbo
For many transgender Russians, emigration is the only means of survival
Alyona Itskova
-
Stories
Road to exile
How a young Navalny supporter who opposed Putin’s rule managed to flee Russia
Irina Garina
-
Analysis
The vampire state
Hungry for funds to fuel its war in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s expropriation spree shows no signs of slowing
Denis Morokhin
-
Stories
In limbo
For many transgender Russians, emigration is the only means of survival
Alyona Itskova
-
Stories
Road to exile
How a young Navalny supporter who opposed Putin’s rule managed to flee Russia
Irina Garina
-
Analysis
The vampire state
Hungry for funds to fuel its war in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s expropriation spree shows no signs of slowing
Denis Morokhin
-
Comment
Friends like these
Putin’s mutual defence pact with Kim Jong Un presents an opportunity for the West
Ana Palacio
-
Stories
Gay abandon
Russian queer activists look back at 20 years of attempting to successfully hold a Pride parade
Pavel Kuznetsov
-
Comment
Friends like these
Putin’s mutual defence pact with Kim Jong Un presents an opportunity for the West
Ana Palacio
-
Stories
Gay abandon
Russian queer activists look back at 20 years of attempting to successfully hold a Pride parade
Pavel Kuznetsov
-
News
Russian Foreign Ministry rules out attending proposed second Ukraine peace summit
NATO confirms Ukraine’s ‘irreversible’ path to membership with €40bn aid pledge
Investigation opened into alleged Russian shooting of Ukrainian POWs
Ukraine receives first batch of F-16 fighter jets from Denmark and the Netherlands
Russian government declares The Moscow Times ‘undesirable organisation’
Jailed Russian politician Vladimir Kara-Murza in ‘stable’ condition in prison hospital
Stories
Wheel of fortune
Millions of users are tapping on a cartoon hamster in the hopes of earning real money in a new Russian game craze
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Terror’s return
Sunday’s coordinated attack on law enforcement and religious institutions in Muslim-majority Dagestan has brought back many dark memories
Natalia Glukhova
-
Stories
Shotgun weddings
What’s behind Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov suddenly marrying off two of his sons?
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Wheel of fortune
Millions of users are tapping on a cartoon hamster in the hopes of earning real money in a new Russian game craze
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Terror’s return
Sunday’s coordinated attack on law enforcement and religious institutions in Muslim-majority Dagestan has brought back many dark memories
Natalia Glukhova
-
Stories
Shotgun weddings
What’s behind Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov suddenly marrying off two of his sons?
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Every man for himself
Former Wagner Group mercenaries recall their march on Moscow one year on
Ilya Volzhsky
-
Stories
Pen versus sword
The dozens of Ukrainian journalists held in Russian jails have little hope of release
Natalia Glukhova
-
Stories
Every man for himself
Former Wagner Group mercenaries recall their march on Moscow one year on
Ilya Volzhsky
-
Stories
Pen versus sword
The dozens of Ukrainian journalists held in Russian jails have little hope of release
Natalia Glukhova
-
Stories
Slipping the net
How a 19-year-old Chechen woman fled her controlling family and the Chechen authorities for a life of freedom
Milana Ochirova
-
Stories
Sidestepping sanctions
Russia’s biggest combat boot manufacturer is quietly amassing a fortune, seemingly under the West’s radar
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
-
Comment
Seize the day
The economic case for seizing Russia’s frozen assets to support Ukraine
Timothy Ash
-
Stories
Slipping the net
How a 19-year-old Chechen woman fled her controlling family and the Chechen authorities for a life of freedom
Milana Ochirova
-
Stories
Sidestepping sanctions
Russia’s biggest combat boot manufacturer is quietly amassing a fortune, seemingly under the West’s radar
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
-
Comment
Seize the day
The economic case for seizing Russia’s frozen assets to support Ukraine
Timothy Ash
-
Stories
Putin does Pyongyang
Lavish pomp but little substance to Kremlin chief’s 24-hour state visit to North Korea
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Putin does Pyongyang
Lavish pomp but little substance to Kremlin chief’s 24-hour state visit to North Korea
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Dissent in the ranks
Why has Russia’s highly influential demobilisation movement fractured?
Pavel Kuznetsov
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Comment
Dying for Danzig
A lack of NATO resolve over Ukraine risks exposing Poland and the Baltic states to Moscow’s aggression next
Mykola Viknianskiy,
Anna Husarska
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Stories
In loco parentis
A case of child-on-child sexual abuse has left one family in Tatarstan unable to attain justice
Alyona Itskova
-
Stories
After the flood
One year on from the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, residents of Russian-occupied Kherson describe their new reality
Olga Vasilyeva
-
Stories
Dissent in the ranks
Why has Russia’s highly influential demobilisation movement fractured?
Pavel Kuznetsov
-
Comment
Dying for Danzig
A lack of NATO resolve over Ukraine risks exposing Poland and the Baltic states to Moscow’s aggression next
Mykola Viknianskiy,
Anna Husarska
-
Stories
In loco parentis
A case of child-on-child sexual abuse has left one family in Tatarstan unable to attain justice
Alyona Itskova
-
Stories
After the flood
One year on from the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, residents of Russian-occupied Kherson describe their new reality
Olga Vasilyeva
-
Stories
Scorched earth
A bombed-out printing house and an underground school reveal differing aspects of life in Kharkiv
Olga Musafirova
-
Stories
The Pit and the Pendulum
A Russian medic sent to a ‘punishment battalion’ for treating Ukrainian POWs shares his story
Alexey Sidorov
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Stories
Scorched earth
A bombed-out printing house and an underground school reveal differing aspects of life in Kharkiv
Olga Musafirova
-
Stories
The Pit and the Pendulum
A Russian medic sent to a ‘punishment battalion’ for treating Ukrainian POWs shares his story
Alexey Sidorov
-
Stories
Ticking time bomb
How the war in Ukraine is causing a mental health crisis in Russia
Sophia Didinova
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Stories
The dissenter
An anti-war blogger given two years in prison for criticising the Russian government is determined to see justice
Novaya Gazeta Baltic
-
Stories
Changing sides
The Russian volunteer troops fighting alongside Ukrainian forces still play an important role in the war for Kyiv
Katie Marie Davies
-
Stories
Ticking time bomb
How the war in Ukraine is causing a mental health crisis in Russia
Sophia Didinova
-
Stories
The dissenter
An anti-war blogger given two years in prison for criticising the Russian government is determined to see justice
Novaya Gazeta Baltic
-
Stories
Changing sides
The Russian volunteer troops fighting alongside Ukrainian forces still play an important role in the war for Kyiv
Katie Marie Davies
-
Comment
The solution to all our problems
During an evening dedicated to the dictator, neo-Stalinists in the city of Barnaul summon the former Soviet leader’s spirit
Novaya Gazeta Kazakhstan
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Stories
Cruel and unusual
A Russian soldier told his mother he’d been tortured by military police. A month later he was found hanged.
Lyubov Borisenko
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Comment
The solution to all our problems
During an evening dedicated to the dictator, neo-Stalinists in the city of Barnaul summon the former Soviet leader’s spirit
Novaya Gazeta Kazakhstan
-
Stories
Cruel and unusual
A Russian soldier told his mother he’d been tortured by military police. A month later he was found hanged.
Lyubov Borisenko
-
Comment
Methodical madness
The terror unleashed against the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is part of Putin’s ‘peace’ plan
Leonid Gozman
-
Stories
The long crossing
Two elderly Ukrainian women travel thousands of miles to make it to the other side of the Dnipro River
Olga Vasilyeva
-
Stories
Russia’s new Red Guards
Why the trial of theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk is as alarming as it is historic
Anastasia Snegova
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Comment
Methodical madness
The terror unleashed against the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is part of Putin’s ‘peace’ plan
Leonid Gozman
-
Stories
The long crossing
Two elderly Ukrainian women travel thousands of miles to make it to the other side of the Dnipro River
Olga Vasilyeva
-
Stories
Russia’s new Red Guards
Why the trial of theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk is as alarming as it is historic
Anastasia Snegova
-
Comment
Georgia’s zero hour
The country’s pivot away from Europe is playing right into the Kremlin’s hands
Salome Samadashvili
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Analysis
Frontier justice
What will Ukraine’s new agency to strike targets inside Russia with Western weapons mean on the ground?
Ilya Volzhsky
-
Comment
Georgia’s zero hour
The country’s pivot away from Europe is playing right into the Kremlin’s hands
Salome Samadashvili
-
Analysis
Frontier justice
What will Ukraine’s new agency to strike targets inside Russia with Western weapons mean on the ground?
Ilya Volzhsky
-
Editor’s picks
Analysis
Unplanned obsolescence
Analysts explain the significance of Sergey Shoigu’s surprise move from the Defence Ministry to the Security Council
Lyubov Borisenko
-
Analysis
Unplanned obsolescence
Analysts explain the significance of Sergey Shoigu’s surprise move from the Defence Ministry to the Security Council
Lyubov Borisenko
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Comment
Past perfect
How the Russian state reframed the collective trauma of World War II to serve its own political ends
Konstantin Pakhaliuk
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Comment
Peak parade
Putin chose to honour veterans on Red Square by threatening the West with nuclear war
Kirill Martynov
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Stories
Heir apparent
The Kremlin may be grooming a successor to ailing Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
-
Comment
Past perfect
How the Russian state reframed the collective trauma of World War II to serve its own political ends
Konstantin Pakhaliuk
-
Comment
Peak parade
Putin chose to honour veterans on Red Square by threatening the West with nuclear war
Kirill Martynov
-
Stories
Heir apparent
The Kremlin may be grooming a successor to ailing Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
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Analysis
Russia’s wasted decade
The World Bank has just reclassified Russia as a high-income country, but how accurate is that designation?
Natalia Glukhova
-
Analysis
Russia’s wasted decade
The World Bank has just reclassified Russia as a high-income country, but how accurate is that designation?
Natalia Glukhova
-
News
Yulia Navalnaya added to Russian government list of ‘terrorists and extremists’
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Comment
Russia’s triple win
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia may find it harder to leave Russia’s sphere of influence than they think
Djoomart Otorbaev
-
News
Yulia Navalnaya added to Russian government list of ‘terrorists and extremists’
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Comment
Russia’s triple win
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia may find it harder to leave Russia’s sphere of influence than they think
Djoomart Otorbaev
-
News
Russian court sentences exiled politician Leonid Gozman to 8.5 years in absentia
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
US officials shut down Russian bot farm used to spread disinformation on X
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
Russian court upholds sentence for chairman of Memorial human rights group
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
Tatarstan introduces ‘finders fee’ for persuading others to enlist in Russian military
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
Russian court sentences exiled politician Leonid Gozman to 8.5 years in absentia
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
US officials shut down Russian bot farm used to spread disinformation on X
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
Russian court upholds sentence for chairman of Memorial human rights group
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
News
Tatarstan introduces ‘finders fee’ for persuading others to enlist in Russian military
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
The Alexander technique
Thirty years of Lukashenko’s dictatorship in pictures
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Europe’s lasting dictator
Alexander Lukashenko’s 30 years in power have been a tragedy for the Belarusian people and a stroke of luck for Vladimir Putin
Iryna Khalip
-
Stories
The Alexander technique
Thirty years of Lukashenko’s dictatorship in pictures
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Europe’s lasting dictator
Alexander Lukashenko’s 30 years in power have been a tragedy for the Belarusian people and a stroke of luck for Vladimir Putin
Iryna Khalip
-
Stories
‘Some go crazy within half an hour’
A Soviet dissident who spent years in solitary confinement on how political prisoners are punished in contemporary Russia
Mira Livadina
-
Stories
Full circle
Denied asylum in Russia, Afghan journalist Kobra Hassani has been forced to return to Kabul where she may face execution
Maksim Leonov
-
Comment
Unconscionable
Russia’s missile strike on a Kyiv children’s hospital marks a new low
Olga Musafirova
-
Stories
‘Some go crazy within half an hour’
A Soviet dissident who spent years in solitary confinement on how political prisoners are punished in contemporary Russia
Mira Livadina
-
Stories
Full circle
Denied asylum in Russia, Afghan journalist Kobra Hassani has been forced to return to Kabul where she may face execution
Maksim Leonov
-
Comment
Unconscionable
Russia’s missile strike on a Kyiv children’s hospital marks a new low
Olga Musafirova
-
Stories
Russian missile strike on Kyiv — in photos
People remain trapped under the rubble of a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian capital
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
‘They won’t get me’
How the Belarus regime is manipulating Interpol into arresting its enemies
Iryna Khalip
-
Stories
Russian missile strike on Kyiv — in photos
People remain trapped under the rubble of a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian capital
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
‘They won’t get me’
How the Belarus regime is manipulating Interpol into arresting its enemies
Iryna Khalip
-
Analysis
Soldiers of misfortune
Russian troops in occupied Ukraine are killing each other at an alarming rate
Sonya Richter
-
Comment
The demigods of populism
How Putin has weaponised religion to bolster his support across Russia
Nina L. Khrushcheva
-
Comment
Breaking the bank
Ukraine’s debt negotiations could decide the fate of the war
Patrick E. Shea
-
Analysis
Soldiers of misfortune
Russian troops in occupied Ukraine are killing each other at an alarming rate
Sonya Richter
-
Comment
The demigods of populism
How Putin has weaponised religion to bolster his support across Russia
Nina L. Khrushcheva
-
Comment
Breaking the bank
Ukraine’s debt negotiations could decide the fate of the war
Patrick E. Shea
-
Stories
Suspension of hostilities
What does Viktor Orbán’s surprise visit to Kyiv mean for the future of the war in Ukraine?
Olga Musafirova
-
Analysis
Looking skywards
Could the long-awaited delivery of F-16s to Ukraine change the course of the war?
Ilya Volzhsky
-
Stories
Suspension of hostilities
What does Viktor Orbán’s surprise visit to Kyiv mean for the future of the war in Ukraine?
Olga Musafirova
-
Analysis
Looking skywards
Could the long-awaited delivery of F-16s to Ukraine change the course of the war?
Ilya Volzhsky
-
Comment
Pulling the strings
Russia’s economic dependence on Beijing has given China the power to end the war in Ukraine
Renaud Foucart
-
Stories
Occupational hazard
How popular resistance in occupied Kherson was crushed and a well-known local journalist was jailed for espionage
Oleksandr Sydorenko
-
Stories
‘I didn’t do anything wrong, mum’
A schoolboy who wrote an anti-Putin leaflet has become Russia’s youngest political prisoner
Irina Garina
-
Comment
Pulling the strings
Russia’s economic dependence on Beijing has given China the power to end the war in Ukraine
Renaud Foucart
-
Stories
Occupational hazard
How popular resistance in occupied Kherson was crushed and a well-known local journalist was jailed for espionage
Oleksandr Sydorenko
-
Stories
‘I didn’t do anything wrong, mum’
A schoolboy who wrote an anti-Putin leaflet has become Russia’s youngest political prisoner
Irina Garina
-
Comment
Ukraine should have its day in court
A Russian militia leader accused of war crimes must be tried in the country whose right to exist he denies
Dan White
-
Analysis
A two pipe problem
Moscow and Beijing are no closer to agreeing terms for the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline
Denis Morokhin
-
Comment
Ukraine should have its day in court
A Russian militia leader accused of war crimes must be tried in the country whose right to exist he denies
Dan White
-
Analysis
A two pipe problem
Moscow and Beijing are no closer to agreeing terms for the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline
Denis Morokhin
-
Stories
In limbo
For many transgender Russians, emigration is the only means of survival
Alyona Itskova
-
Stories
Road to exile
How a young Navalny supporter who opposed Putin’s rule managed to flee Russia
Irina Garina
-
Analysis
The vampire state
Hungry for funds to fuel its war in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s expropriation spree shows no signs of slowing
Denis Morokhin
-
Stories
In limbo
For many transgender Russians, emigration is the only means of survival
Alyona Itskova
-
Stories
Road to exile
How a young Navalny supporter who opposed Putin’s rule managed to flee Russia
Irina Garina
-
Analysis
The vampire state
Hungry for funds to fuel its war in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s expropriation spree shows no signs of slowing
Denis Morokhin
-
Comment
Friends like these
Putin’s mutual defence pact with Kim Jong Un presents an opportunity for the West
Ana Palacio
-
Stories
Gay abandon
Russian queer activists look back at 20 years of attempting to successfully hold a Pride parade
Pavel Kuznetsov
-
Comment
Friends like these
Putin’s mutual defence pact with Kim Jong Un presents an opportunity for the West
Ana Palacio
-
Stories
Gay abandon
Russian queer activists look back at 20 years of attempting to successfully hold a Pride parade
Pavel Kuznetsov
-
News
Russian Foreign Ministry rules out attending proposed second Ukraine peace summit
NATO confirms Ukraine’s ‘irreversible’ path to membership with €40bn aid pledge
Investigation opened into alleged Russian shooting of Ukrainian POWs
Ukraine receives first batch of F-16 fighter jets from Denmark and the Netherlands
Russian government declares The Moscow Times ‘undesirable organisation’
Jailed Russian politician Vladimir Kara-Murza in ‘stable’ condition in prison hospital
Stories
Wheel of fortune
Millions of users are tapping on a cartoon hamster in the hopes of earning real money in a new Russian game craze
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Terror’s return
Sunday’s coordinated attack on law enforcement and religious institutions in Muslim-majority Dagestan has brought back many dark memories
Natalia Glukhova
-
Stories
Shotgun weddings
What’s behind Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov suddenly marrying off two of his sons?
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Wheel of fortune
Millions of users are tapping on a cartoon hamster in the hopes of earning real money in a new Russian game craze
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Terror’s return
Sunday’s coordinated attack on law enforcement and religious institutions in Muslim-majority Dagestan has brought back many dark memories
Natalia Glukhova
-
Stories
Shotgun weddings
What’s behind Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov suddenly marrying off two of his sons?
Novaya Gazeta Europe
-
Stories
Every man for himself
Former Wagner Group mercenaries recall their march on Moscow one year on
Ilya Volzhsky
-
Stories
Pen versus sword
The dozens of Ukrainian journalists held in Russian jails have little hope of release
Natalia Glukhova
-
Stories
Every man for himself
Former Wagner Group mercenaries recall their march on Moscow one year on
Ilya Volzhsky
-
Stories
Pen versus sword
The dozens of Ukrainian journalists held in Russian jails have little hope of release
Natalia Glukhova
-
Stories
Slipping the net
How a 19-year-old Chechen woman fled her controlling family and the Chechen authorities for a life of freedom
Milana Ochirova
-
Stories
Sidestepping sanctions
Russia’s biggest combat boot manufacturer is quietly amassing a fortune, seemingly under the West’s radar
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
-
Comment
Seize the day
The economic case for seizing Russia’s frozen assets to support Ukraine
Timothy Ash
-
Stories
Slipping the net
How a 19-year-old Chechen woman fled her controlling family and the Chechen authorities for a life of freedom
Milana Ochirova
-
Stories
Sidestepping sanctions
Russia’s biggest combat boot manufacturer is quietly amassing a fortune, seemingly under the West’s radar
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
-
Comment
Seize the day
The economic case for seizing Russia’s frozen assets to support Ukraine
Timothy Ash
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Stories
Putin does Pyongyang
Lavish pomp but little substance to Kremlin chief’s 24-hour state visit to North Korea
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
Putin does Pyongyang
Lavish pomp but little substance to Kremlin chief’s 24-hour state visit to North Korea
Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Stories
Dissent in the ranks
Why has Russia’s highly influential demobilisation movement fractured?
Pavel Kuznetsov
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Comment
Dying for Danzig
A lack of NATO resolve over Ukraine risks exposing Poland and the Baltic states to Moscow’s aggression next
Mykola Viknianskiy,
Anna Husarska
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Stories
In loco parentis
A case of child-on-child sexual abuse has left one family in Tatarstan unable to attain justice
Alyona Itskova
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Stories
After the flood
One year on from the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, residents of Russian-occupied Kherson describe their new reality
Olga Vasilyeva
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Stories
Dissent in the ranks
Why has Russia’s highly influential demobilisation movement fractured?
Pavel Kuznetsov
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Comment
Dying for Danzig
A lack of NATO resolve over Ukraine risks exposing Poland and the Baltic states to Moscow’s aggression next
Mykola Viknianskiy,
Anna Husarska
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Stories
In loco parentis
A case of child-on-child sexual abuse has left one family in Tatarstan unable to attain justice
Alyona Itskova
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Stories
After the flood
One year on from the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, residents of Russian-occupied Kherson describe their new reality
Olga Vasilyeva
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Stories
Scorched earth
A bombed-out printing house and an underground school reveal differing aspects of life in Kharkiv
Olga Musafirova
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Stories
The Pit and the Pendulum
A Russian medic sent to a ‘punishment battalion’ for treating Ukrainian POWs shares his story
Alexey Sidorov
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Stories
Scorched earth
A bombed-out printing house and an underground school reveal differing aspects of life in Kharkiv
Olga Musafirova
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Stories
The Pit and the Pendulum
A Russian medic sent to a ‘punishment battalion’ for treating Ukrainian POWs shares his story
Alexey Sidorov
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Stories
Ticking time bomb
How the war in Ukraine is causing a mental health crisis in Russia
Sophia Didinova
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Stories
The dissenter
An anti-war blogger given two years in prison for criticising the Russian government is determined to see justice
Novaya Gazeta Baltic
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Stories
Changing sides
The Russian volunteer troops fighting alongside Ukrainian forces still play an important role in the war for Kyiv
Katie Marie Davies
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Stories
Ticking time bomb
How the war in Ukraine is causing a mental health crisis in Russia
Sophia Didinova
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Stories
The dissenter
An anti-war blogger given two years in prison for criticising the Russian government is determined to see justice
Novaya Gazeta Baltic
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Stories
Changing sides
The Russian volunteer troops fighting alongside Ukrainian forces still play an important role in the war for Kyiv
Katie Marie Davies
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Comment
The solution to all our problems
During an evening dedicated to the dictator, neo-Stalinists in the city of Barnaul summon the former Soviet leader’s spirit
Novaya Gazeta Kazakhstan
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Stories
Cruel and unusual
A Russian soldier told his mother he’d been tortured by military police. A month later he was found hanged.
Lyubov Borisenko
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Comment
The solution to all our problems
During an evening dedicated to the dictator, neo-Stalinists in the city of Barnaul summon the former Soviet leader’s spirit
Novaya Gazeta Kazakhstan
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Stories
Cruel and unusual
A Russian soldier told his mother he’d been tortured by military police. A month later he was found hanged.
Lyubov Borisenko
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Comment
Methodical madness
The terror unleashed against the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is part of Putin’s ‘peace’ plan
Leonid Gozman
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Stories
The long crossing
Two elderly Ukrainian women travel thousands of miles to make it to the other side of the Dnipro River
Olga Vasilyeva
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Stories
Russia’s new Red Guards
Why the trial of theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk is as alarming as it is historic
Anastasia Snegova
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Comment
Methodical madness
The terror unleashed against the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is part of Putin’s ‘peace’ plan
Leonid Gozman
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Stories
The long crossing
Two elderly Ukrainian women travel thousands of miles to make it to the other side of the Dnipro River
Olga Vasilyeva
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Stories
Russia’s new Red Guards
Why the trial of theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk is as alarming as it is historic
Anastasia Snegova
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Comment
Georgia’s zero hour
The country’s pivot away from Europe is playing right into the Kremlin’s hands
Salome Samadashvili
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Analysis
Frontier justice
What will Ukraine’s new agency to strike targets inside Russia with Western weapons mean on the ground?
Ilya Volzhsky
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Comment
Georgia’s zero hour
The country’s pivot away from Europe is playing right into the Kremlin’s hands
Salome Samadashvili
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Analysis
Frontier justice
What will Ukraine’s new agency to strike targets inside Russia with Western weapons mean on the ground?
Ilya Volzhsky
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Editor’s picks
Analysis
Unplanned obsolescence
Analysts explain the significance of Sergey Shoigu’s surprise move from the Defence Ministry to the Security Council
Lyubov Borisenko
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Analysis
Unplanned obsolescence
Analysts explain the significance of Sergey Shoigu’s surprise move from the Defence Ministry to the Security Council
Lyubov Borisenko
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Comment
Past perfect
How the Russian state reframed the collective trauma of World War II to serve its own political ends
Konstantin Pakhaliuk
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Comment
Peak parade
Putin chose to honour veterans on Red Square by threatening the West with nuclear war
Kirill Martynov
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Stories
Heir apparent
The Kremlin may be grooming a successor to ailing Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
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Comment
Past perfect
How the Russian state reframed the collective trauma of World War II to serve its own political ends
Konstantin Pakhaliuk
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Comment
Peak parade
Putin chose to honour veterans on Red Square by threatening the West with nuclear war
Kirill Martynov
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Stories
Heir apparent
The Kremlin may be grooming a successor to ailing Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov
Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigations department
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Editor in chief — Kirill Martynov.
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