Alla KonstantinovaAll authors

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  “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
• “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
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  “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
• ‘Reflections that verge on Nazism.’ A new course devoted to ‘foundation of statehood’ is introduced in Russian universities

  Article 13 September 2023, 20:10
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  “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
• Staging “justification of terrorism.” Two artists detained in Moscow over an award‑winning play about radical Islam

  Article 5 May 2023, 9:52
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  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
• Son‑in‑law, husband, son, father. First days of the special mobilisation operation in the Republic of Buryatia

  Article 1 October 2022, 0:01
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  “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
• 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
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  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