Alla KonstantinovaAll authors

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  Broken by American detention. Russian authorities arrest Leonid Melekhin after failed asylum attempt and “self‑deportation” from the U.S.

  Article 29 July 2025, 18:58
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  Russian courts flooded with 20,000 missing or dead claims in 2024. A huge portion of them filed by military commanders

  Article 4 February 2025, 0:20
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  A special passenger. Russian train manager gets demoted after baggage dispute with a soldier carrying gifts for fighters in Ukraine

  Article 13 December 2024, 20:53
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  “They discovered him, beat him, and threw him in a cage”. Relatives of Russian fighters recount tales of a torture prison in a Donetsk suburb

  Article 22 November 2024, 18:36
• Marginalisation trumps integration. Russia’s State Duma pushes new anti‑migrant legislation amid pressure against rights activists

  Article 1 October 2024, 19:20
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  “I want a woman”. How Russian soldiers harass women on trains and planes while returning from the front

  Article 23 September 2024, 20:48
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  “Granny, why am I in jail?” Tuberculosis‑stricken schoolboy jailed for 4.5 years in the Russian Far East on “terrorism” charges

  Article 27 August 2024, 21:39
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  Vladimir Putin claims conscripts aren’t fighting in the war, but they go missing in Kursk region in droves. Mediazona interviews their relatives

  Article 17 August 2024, 16:22
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  “Every second counts.” An Orthodox priest from Dagestan recounts surviving a second terrorist attack

  Article 24 June 2024, 18:27
• “Your dick—where is it?” Police and special forces are raiding private parties in Russia, in search of the “international LGBT movement”

  Article 23 February 2024, 14:09
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  Isolating Navalny. A timeline of stints in solitary, correspondence bans, lawyer arrests, and the Arctic Circle transfer that preceeded the politician’s death

  Article 22 February 2024, 1:55
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  Mapping the ruins. The reconstruction and demolition of occupied Mariupol

  Article 31 January 2024, 7:46
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  “We are the black people.” The case against Bashkir activist Fayel Alsynov, whose trial today drew hundreds (or thousands) of people

  Article 15 January 2024, 20:34
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  “Keep up the good work, sisters” The women behind “The Way Home” Telegram channel mobilizing for soldiers’ return from Ukraine

  Article 7 December 2023, 19:43
• “Everything is just like in the 1940s, but this time we’re the fascists.” How Russians answer to war propaganda with street art

  Article 31 October 2023, 16:41
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  “Poor Valera.” 14‑year‑old schoolboy with tuberculosis charged with terrorism in the Russian Far East

  Article 20 October 2023, 0:38
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  From courtroom to jail. Navalny’s lawyers Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser, and Igor Sergunin are now behind bars

  Article 14 October 2023, 0:34
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  “Break her spine.” The story of a Donetsk resident who was harassed after posting TikToks with Ukrainian songs, forced to fake apologies, and fined

  Article 10 October 2023, 15:21
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  ‘Reflections that verge on Nazism.’ A new course devoted to ‘foundation of statehood’ is introduced in Russian universities

  Article 13 September 2023, 20:10
• “Kids tell me Putin started a war.” Perm teacher speaks out after principal and 10 educators resign over visits from “special military operation” veterans

  Article 21 August 2023, 23:48
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  “Putin is a fascist.” How a blue‑haired woman from Tolyatti was arrested for her Instagram posts and bank notes with anti‑war slogans

  Article 8 August 2023, 17:33
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  “Remember this, you stupid cow: you are nothing and no one.” How a doctor was bullied into emigration after she refused to contribute money for a soldier’s nurse

  Article 3 August 2023, 19:54
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  “Total clusterfuck, son, excuse my language.” How residents of the occupied and flooded city of Oleshki spent the first night after the dam destruction in Ukraine

  Article 8 June 2023, 0:16
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  Staging “justification of terrorism.” Two artists detained in Moscow over an award‑winning play about radical Islam

  Article 5 May 2023, 9:52
• The dark underbelly of a nation at war. Mediazona interviews Russian police informants who denounce their fellow citizens

  Article 19 April 2023, 11:00
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  Art and war. How a pacifist drawing made by a schoolgirl turned into a criminal case against her father

  Article 3 March 2023, 16:49
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  Brave New Words. The A‑Z dictionary of wartime Russia

  Article 24 February 2023, 8:54
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  “I'm enslaved.” A servicewoman’s contract with the Russian military expired, but the army doesn’t let her go

  Article 12 December 2022, 16:58
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  Son‑in‑law, husband, son, father. First days of the special mobilisation operation in the Republic of Buryatia

  Article 1 October 2022, 0:01
• “Teach kids... so that they are proud of the war.” Russian school children threatened with expulsion for refusing to attend ‘Important Conversations’

  Article 14 September 2022, 11:16
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  Sentenced to ten years, enlisted by Wagner PMC, perished in Ukraine. The story of a prisoner from Karelia

  Article 2 September 2022, 9:45
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  “I lost my son, but it had to be done.” Why families of Russian soldiers are not fighting for them

  Article 29 August 2022, 9:29
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  ‘V’ is for ‘Visiting A&E’. Family of workers from Donetsk say they were poisoned by new patriotic vodka

  Article 19 July 2022, 18:09
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  Moscow politician Ilya Yashin condemned Bucha atrocities. He now faces up to 10 years in prison over ‘discrediting’ the army

  Article 12 July 2022, 23:59
• Three days from contract to death. Stories of two Russians who went to war to win their wives back

  Article 5 July 2022, 18:53
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  “She lost consciousness as it was happening and she’s actually grateful she did.” What we know about the rapes perpetrated in Ukraine by Russian soldiers

  Article 19 April 2022, 13:37