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  An exchange deception. Russia sent Ukraine ex‑convicts already due for deportation, instead of prisoners of war

  Article 27 May 2025, 20:45
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  Bashar al‑Assad’s fall and Russia’s army. How Syrian government’s collapse will reshape Russia’s presence in Africa and the Middle East

  Article 11 December 2024, 19:48
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  1,000 days of war. The numbers of Russia’s full‑scale invasion in Ukraine

  Article 19 November 2024, 15:49
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  “Who’d think a last name could turn people into monsters?” Ukrainian Iryna Navalna, Alexei Navalny namesake, gets 8 years in Russia after torture

  Article 9 October 2024, 18:46
• Rainbow hunters. What “extremist” LGBTQ+ symbols are Russians being fined for (even if they’re right‑wing)

  Article 1 July 2024, 20:12
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  Make War Not Love. Police and Nazi teens disperse a hippie festival in a Moscow park—event that had been held for at least 40 years

  Article 3 June 2024, 20:15
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  Hunting season. Moscow conscripts seeking to avoid military service locked in assembly point, transported to army unit at night

  Article 29 May 2024, 7:47
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  Belgorod volunteer who aided hundreds of Ukrainian refugees dies in detention. The tragic story of Alexander Demidenko

  Article 9 April 2024, 9:37
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  10 years for chatting. A bank employee from St. Petersburg sentenced for attempting to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine

  Article 21 March 2024, 7:57
• “Or we’ll rape you”. Convicted for attempting to burn a police van at an anti‑war rally in Moscow, activist recounts torture in Siberian detention

  Article 12 March 2024, 12:11
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  Dasha Tykovka in military court. How Darya Trepova recieved the longest sentence for a woman in modern Russian history, 27 years

  Article 6 February 2024, 20:09
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  Depriving and intimidating. Property confiscation is proposed as punishment for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army

  Article 22 January 2024, 22:02
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  “In this drama, I’m here to the final scene.” Theatre director Berkovich and playwright Petriychuk speak at a court hearing on their detention

  Article 9 January 2024, 21:51
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  From the ban on “LGBT propaganda” to a ban on people. The last 10 years in 50 homophobic quotes by Russian politicians

  Article 3 December 2023, 12:43
• Elusive torture. Only 58 law enforcement agents convicted in 18 months under a new article of the of the Russian Criminal Code

  Article 23 November 2023, 0:09
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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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  Labelled as a terrorist. Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, independent journalist from Dagestan, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for his articles

  Article 2 October 2023, 16:17
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  Nine lives of an anarchist. The story of Dmitry Petrov, an activist from Russia who fought for Ukraine and died in the battle of Bakhmut

  Article 7 July 2023, 10:07
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  Conscience and courage. This year’s Boris Nemtsov Award honours five Russian political prisoners who have spoken out against war

  Article 12 June 2023, 13:13
• “We are simply being crossed out.” As Pride Month begins, changing the gender marker in legal documents and medical transition are being banned in Russia

  Article 1 June 2023, 18:04
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  The Wagner map. 17,000 inmates unaccounted for in 35 Russian regions amid recruitment for war in Ukraine

  Article 25 April 2023, 21:50
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  When soldiers say no. Hundreds of Russian servicemen face trial in defiance of Ukraine deployment, Mediazona study reveals

  Article 11 April 2023, 8:41
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  “Brought a statuette that blew up.” What we know about the death of pro‑war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky and arrest of suspect Daria Trepova

  Article 3 April 2023, 21:13
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  “Stole the country’s future.” War, Putin, and 157 expletives in Russian ex‑senator Akhmedov’s candid conversation with music producer Prigozhin

  Article 29 March 2023, 10:39
• “I hope my testimony will help get revenge.” The story of a former Wagner mercenary who spoke out about the murders of objectors and prisoners

  Article 22 January 2023, 0:43
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  It’s gotten worse. Russian 2022 in numbers

  Article 31 December 2022, 16:59
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  “Foreign agents” everywhere. New rules for labelling persons and organisations enacted in Russia

  Article 2 December 2022, 10:47
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  “I used to condemn desertion but now it’s the only way to stay alive.” A Marine fighting in Pavlivka describes the morale of Russian troops and the command’s indifference

  Article 23 November 2022, 21:25
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  “They’ll send us back for slaughter.” A camp for Russian conscientious objectors is back up and running in eastern Ukraine

  Article 16 November 2022, 21:48
• Paint it black. How (self‑)censorship, war, and sanctions affected book publishing in Russia

  Article 7 November 2022, 20:16
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  “I refuse to fulfill everything listed in the oath”. A mobilised St. Petersburg resident refuses to take up arms, from within his military unit

  Article 17 October 2022, 20:40
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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