Olga RomashovaAll authors

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  “They call me a scumbag, but they haven’t seen the film”. Russian teacher who filmed his school’s descent into propaganda during the war now showing the film at Sundance

  Article 30 January 2025, 23:25
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  “The police are already looking for you. I’m a scammer.” How Russians are tricked into attacking military enlistment offices and polling stations

  Article 16 January 2025, 22:15
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  North Korean soldiers are set to join Russia’s army in Ukraine. Here’s what experts who study the country say

  Article 25 October 2024, 19:36
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  Russia’s repression replay. Prosecutor General pushes for new review of Soviet era repression victims’ rehabilitation orders

  Article 19 September 2024, 5:58
• Political prisoner at 15. Arseny Turbin’s journey from pro‑Ukraine student to imprisoned “terrorist”

  Article 27 June 2024, 22:38
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  The train has stopped. How Ilya Podkamenny from Irkutsk got 12 years in jail for several leaflets and putting wire on the rails

  Article 13 June 2024, 18:52
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  Ivanov’s corruption. Bribery, kickbacks and luxury in Russia’s Defence Ministry

  Article 24 April 2024, 18:10
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  Ink and fire. In three days, at least 44 Russians attacked polling stations and spoiled ballots pushed by phone scammers

  Article 19 March 2024, 7:47
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  A Russian pastoral. How a killer sentenced to 21 years in prison was pardoned by Putin and died in the war in Ukraine

  Article 12 January 2024, 14:27
• “You may carry on with your flings.” Inside the police raid on a Moscow gay club

  Article 4 December 2023, 20:33
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  “Homophobia and transphobia become an ideology of war”. A brief timeline of the LGBTQ+ ban in modern Russia

  Article 30 November 2023, 18:11
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  The secret history of 395. How activists helped hundreds of people to beat Russia’s transgender ban

  Article 7 November 2023, 19:20
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  “Since childhood, I’ve witnessed women silenced and killed.” The story of an Ingush woman whose family threatens to kill a human rights activist

  Article 25 October 2023, 0:25
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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

  Article 16 August 2023, 17:01
• “A blow to Putin’s hubris.” How arson attacks on military recruitment offices are prosecuted in Russia

  Article 28 July 2023, 10:19
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  “Everybody out!” The case of Ruslan Zinin, the man who shot and nearly killed a draft officer in a small Russian town

  Article 13 April 2023, 14:08
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  “The police is off the leash.” Transgender sex workers are being expelled from Russia for “LGBT propaganda”

  Article 28 February 2023, 13:52
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  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

  Article 16 February 2023, 19:24
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  Record number of legal gender transitions in Russia in 2022. Mediazona analyzes state data on new passports issued due to “sex change”

  Article 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

  Article 31 January 2023, 16:10
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  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

  Article 16 January 2023, 22:03
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  “The whole floor’s in my blood.” TikToker Nekoglai speaks about police torture and being expelled from Russia for parodying the military

  Article 15 December 2022, 10:50
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  How to help LGBT‑rights activists in Russia. After the ‘gay‑propaganda’ law was signed, the queer community needs support more than ever

  Article 13 December 2022, 18:31
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  “I am an occupier here, nobody has invited me.” Diary of a Russian engineer who spent a month in Mariupol

  Article 5 December 2022, 13:38
• Queer resistance. What Russian activists, lawyers, event organisers and fanfic writers say about the new “LGBT‑propaganda” ban

  Article 3 November 2022, 19:51
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  The anti‑war holdout. A story of one Russian IT professional who lives in the woods hiding from Putin’s mobilisation

  Article 22 October 2022, 21:02
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  “Continuous, deliberate destructive activity.” Moscow court kicks Memorial out of their office on the day they received Nobel Peace Prize

  Article 10 October 2022, 8:56