Pavel VasilyevAll authors

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  “My goal isn’t to be free—it’s to remain a human being”. The closing statement of volunteer Nadine Geisler, sentenced to 22 years in prison

  Article 24 June 2025, 17:44
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  Vigilante Russian. The rise of far‑right “Russian Community”, with anti‑migrant and anti‑gay raids, assaults, and at least one death

  Article 9 June 2025, 19:51
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  Horror in My Home. Story of a Ukrainian woman Kateryna Korovina, sentenced to 10 years in Russia for donating $12 to Ukrainian causes

  Article 13 March 2025, 22:12
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  The Syndicate. How an ex‑mercenary formed his own unit within the Russian army, leading to the torture and death of a fellow soldier

  Article 12 March 2025, 13:37
• “A hell with all its demons”. How a juvenile detention centre in Taganrog was turned into a torture camp for Ukrainian prisoners

  Article 10 January 2025, 22:48
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  “Shame, wrath, compassion” How the Russian translator of the UN Bucha report was prosecuted for participating in an “undesirable organisation”

  Article 8 January 2025, 18:16
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  “They want to zero us all out”. Russian soldiers accuse commanders of sending troops to their deaths

  Article 29 October 2024, 18:05
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  “One said to another: ‘Ring it!’, an electric current coursed through my body, I screamed”. Anarchist Rouslan Sidiki, detained for sabotage near Ryazan, recounts torture

  Article 6 September 2024, 21:49
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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
• TikTok Troops vs. Z‑Telegram. How the Akhmat battalion commander commented fighting with the AFU in the Kursk region

  Article 14 August 2024, 19:17
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  “Behind bars, we are shielded from foreign influence”. Memorial’s Oleg Orlov speaks in court about his “foreign agent” status

  Article 29 May 2024, 19:42
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  Rediscovering the enemy. Historian Rustam Alexander on how homosexuals were persecuted: from early USSR to modern Russia

  Article 29 April 2024, 10:09
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  Alligator clips on the legs. Russian bikers discuss the war, curse Putin in a private chat — and end up being accused of preparing a terrorist act

  Article 18 April 2024, 16:04
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  “We had no emergency services staff”. Facing catastrophic flooding, residents of an Orenburg village constructed a dam to save their homes

  Article 17 April 2024, 7:20
• “The faculty considers this act immoral”. Moscow State University expels student who renamed Wi‑Fi network “Glory to Ukraine!”

  Article 3 April 2024, 4:55
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  “We must not descend to ‘an eye for an eye’ logic”. Human rights activist Sergey Babinets on why torture is unacceptable, even after Crocus attack

  Article 25 March 2024, 22:05
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  Moscow mourns Navalny. The funeral

  Article 1 March 2024, 22:57
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  “I felt shock for the first time during the war.” Residents of Russian city of Belgorod describe a week under shelling

  Article 3 January 2024, 20:59
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  Chasing Jews on the runway. In‑depth account of the anti‑Semitic riot at the Makhachkala airport, as told by the passengers

  Article 1 November 2023, 21:41
• Confronting imaginary refugees. The timeline of anti‑Semitic unrest in the Russian North Caucasus

  Article 30 October 2023, 22:47
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  Showing passports to the mob during a bus chase and helicopter rescue. One passenger’s account of chaos amid anti‑Semitic riot at Makhachkala airport

  Article 30 October 2023, 19:03
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  A night in police custody for a kiss. Two tourists’ Sochi stroll ends with charges of “promoting non‑traditional relationships”

  Article 15 September 2023, 5:30
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  “No loopholes” for the “transgender industry.” The wildest quotes from Duma deputies discussing the bill banning legal transitioning in Russia

  Article 15 June 2023, 21:54
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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
• Nova Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station destroyed. What we know about the breach and interpretations from Ukraine, Russia, and OSINT researchers

  Article 6 June 2023, 18:21
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  Archive hunt. Former head of a “Memorial” human rights organisation branch in Russia accused of smuggling its documents abroad

  Article 21 May 2023, 8:10
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  Water with an aftertaste of war. Life in Bakhmut, the most dangerous point on the front, through the eyes of one Ukrainian family who escaped the shelling

  Article 18 May 2023, 19:27
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  Vladimir Putin hands over “Trinity,” a masterpiece icon, to the Russian Orthodox Church. Why art historians and museum experts are shocked by this decision

  Article 17 May 2023, 15:21
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  Two helicopters and two jets crash in the Bryansk region of Russia. Here’s what we know

  Article 13 May 2023, 21:21
• “Zelenskyy slaps me on the shoulder: ‘Let him go, but shoot all the others.’” How a dream about a Ukrainian president turned a Russian citizen into a symbol of the anti‑war movement

  Article 1 March 2023, 17:11
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  Across the minefields. Eight mobilised Russian soldiers fled the war zone in Ukraine and were accused of desertion

  Article 5 February 2023, 18:43
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  Mock weapons and pea mortars. Russian airsoft players train mobilised men to fight in Ukraine

  Article 24 November 2022, 22:00
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  “I could rip them to pieces. They must bring them back.” All across Russia, women are demanding that their sons, husbands and brothers be sent home from Ukraine

  Article 21 November 2022, 12:17
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  “Total clusterfuck.” Old guns, boots covered with moss, zero training: one Russian recruit’s story of the mobilisation

  Article 3 October 2022, 0:23
• “We slept in basements for six months, in the same clothes.” Witness accounts from liberated territories in the Kharkiv region

  Article 23 September 2022, 22:58
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  The atomic primatologist. The weird biography of Renat Karchaa, who accompanied the head of the IAEA to the Zaporizhzhya NPP

  Article 3 September 2022, 2:03
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  ”We drove aimlessly through fields for days.“ After the invasion began, hundreds of Russian National Guard servicemen refused to fight in Ukraine and returned home

  Article 25 July 2022, 15:28
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  Charged in 40 minutes. Russia's chief investigator orders ’immediate‘ prosecution of a politician from Siberia over a single anti‑war tweet

  Article 22 July 2022, 17:22