Pavel VasilyevAll authors

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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