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“Instead to kill they make you ill.” Former OPCW lab head on the new wave of poisonings of Russian activists and journalists abroad
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16 August 2023, 17:01
“A blow to Putin’s hubris.” How arson attacks on military recruitment offices are prosecuted in Russia
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28 July 2023, 10:19
“The police is off the leash.” Transgender sex workers are being expelled from Russia for “LGBT propaganda”
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28 February 2023, 13:52
LGBTQ+ refugee at risk of execution after returning to Russia to attend father’s funeral. He was detained at Moscow airport and handed over to Chechen authorities
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16 February 2023, 19:24
Record number of legal gender transitions in Russia in 2022. Mediazona analyzes state data on new passports issued due to “sex change”
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13 February 2023, 19:43
The man with the bag. How a lone handyman was accused of terrorism and then tortured for setting an FSB rug on fire
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31 January 2023, 16:10
Draft office arson, six months in jail and escape from Russia. How a shop assistant from the Urals tried to save conscripts from dying in Ukraine
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16 January 2023, 22:03
“The whole floor’s in my blood.” TikToker Nekoglai speaks about police torture and being expelled from Russia for parodying the military
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15 December 2022, 10:50
How to help LGBT‑rights activists in Russia. After the ‘gay‑propaganda’ law was signed, the queer community needs support more than ever
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13 December 2022, 18:31
“I am an occupier here, nobody has invited me.” Diary of a Russian engineer who spent a month in Mariupol
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5 December 2022, 13:38
Queer resistance. What Russian activists, lawyers, event organisers and fanfic writers say about the new “LGBT‑propaganda” ban
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3 November 2022, 19:51
The anti‑war holdout. A story of one Russian IT professional who lives in the woods hiding from Putin’s mobilisation
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22 October 2022, 21:02
“Continuous, deliberate destructive activity.” Moscow court kicks Memorial out of their office on the day they received Nobel Peace Prize
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10 October 2022, 8:56