Elizaveta NesterovaAll authors

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  “Only an idiot would engage in terrorism in Russia”. Russian business school lecturer jailed for 16 years over a Ukrainian drone attack on Kursk

  Article 12 August 2025, 21:21
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  “Explaining that peace is better than war is my direct duty.” Russian archbishop on trial over anti‑war sermon

  Article 1 April 2025, 21:00
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  “There’s no sense in playing roulette with the court.” Interview with Konstantin Kotov who escaped house arrest after being accused of donating $30 to Navalny’s ACF

  Article 24 January 2025, 18:57
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  From a dining car to prison for 6.5 years. The story of political prisoner Mikhail Simonov, 64, a railroad worker who is jailed for two blog posts

  Article 24 October 2024, 20:21
• “They told me to pack for a couple of days”. Nina Slobodchikova’s account of her 12‑year sentence for transferring $50 to Ukraine

  Article 10 September 2024, 23:13
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  “They made the courts an integral part of dictatorship”. Memorial’s Oleg Orlov speaks at the Moscow City Court

  Article 11 July 2024, 15:09
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  Denounced, arrested four times, expelled, deported. Ukrainian medical student Serhiy Hulko’s ordeal in Russia and beyond

  Article 22 May 2024, 3:22
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  Meta‑moderation. Moscow court opens trial against Meta spokesman Andy Stone, accused of “justifying terrorism”

  Article 18 April 2024, 17:51
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  The price‑tag of freedom. The dreadful trial of Sasha Skochilenko, who was sentenced to 7 years for “spreading fake news” about the Russian army

  Article 20 November 2023, 19:28
• Freedom to say that two plus two makes four. Why mathematician and activist Dmitry Ivanov was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison

  Article 20 March 2023, 12:33
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  “He won’t be shot, but he will be locked up.” Mariupol man flees from the destroyed city to Russia, only to be first tortured and now put on trial

  Article 12 January 2023, 21:19
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  SHIZO ad infinitum. Inside Alexei Navalny’s life in Russian prison’s solitary confinement

  Article 10 November 2022, 23:24
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  Platoon on the run. 13 Russians recruits’ grotesque journey to Ukraine and back

  Article 30 October 2022, 0:51
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  “We are most interested in murderers and bandits. You’ll like it in our squad.” Evgeny Prigozhin of the Wagner Group seems to be personally enlisting inmates to fight in Ukraine

  Article 10 August 2022, 15:39