Dmitrii ShvetsAll authors

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  A crackdown on quiz community. What’s next for “What? Where? When?” players in Russia after “undesirable” designation

  Article 8 November 2024, 0:03
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  The case of the 24. Russian prosectution requests 16 to 24 years in prison for Azov regiment POWs—Mediazona’s photo report

  Article 21 August 2024, 20:18
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  The art of war. The Kremlin is hiding Russia’s death toll in Ukraine—a small regional museum collection helps expose it

  Article 13 August 2024, 18:06
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  The inner workings of Russian state surveillance. Two former operatives share the secrets of their craft with Mediazona

  Article 18 July 2024, 19:17
• “Every second counts.” An Orthodox priest from Dagestan recounts surviving a second terrorist attack

  Article 24 June 2024, 18:27
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  Russia’s pioneering “LGBT extremism” case. In Orenburg, Pose bar raid and criminal case set precedent for future repression

  Article 5 April 2024, 5:13
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  “I told them to fuck off and left.” AWOL and desertion in the Russian army are beating one record after another

  Article 4 March 2024, 12:04
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  “Sadom,” “Gomora,” and “modern Ukraine”. Russia will train psychology students in “spiritual security” and countering Western influence

  Article 27 February 2024, 21:17
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  “It’s sacred: once it’s in a museum, it’s beyond return”. How war artifacts and stolen Kherson exhibits make their way into Russian museums

  Article 25 January 2024, 21:41
• A Russian pastoral. How a killer sentenced to 21 years in prison was pardoned by Putin and died in the war in Ukraine

  Article 12 January 2024, 14:27
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  Talent pursuit. A fencing couple who moved to the USA is now on the wanted list in Russia

  Article 26 December 2023, 20:55
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  Ohio man’s Russian‑Armenian nightmare. Amid cross‑border legal battle, US citizen Eric Creamer’s desperate bid to return home

  Article 19 December 2023, 23:46
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  State overreach. Stopping short of outright ban, Russian authorities tighten access to abortions

  Article 11 November 2023, 0:13
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  Fire tracks. An updated survey of anti‑war railway sabotage in Russia

  Article 6 October 2023, 10:34
• “You are Russians now; you’ll be issued passports.” Forced transfer of Ukrainian prisoners from Kherson to Russia amidst military retreat

  Article 25 September 2023, 15:01
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  Letters of hope and despair. A Russian woman in the Alps and her lifeline to the political prisoners in a Moscow‑area jail

  Article 11 September 2023, 13:03
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  How the war reached Pskov. Military analysts discuss the strike at an airfield 700 kilometres from the Ukrainian border

  Article 30 August 2023, 22:45
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  Russia’s renewed push to stop VPNs. Bypassing website blocks will become increasingly difficult, experts warn

  Article 8 August 2023, 21:05
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  Journalist who exposed anti‑LGBT violence and human rights lawyer attacked in Chechnya. What we know about the assault on Elena Milashina and Alexander Nemov

  Article 4 July 2023, 21:27
• Cabinet on fire. Over 65 arrested, a third of them underage, amid crackdown on anti‑war railway sabotage in Russia

  Article 2 May 2023, 11:23
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  One anti‑war Russian family, three criminal cases. Mother and daughter accused of arson attempt, terrorism, and extremism

  Article 21 April 2023, 16:48
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  Long sentence requested in a “fake news about the army” case. A Siberian journalist faces 9 years in prison for writing about Mariupol

  Article 8 February 2023, 9:44
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  Partial social mobility. How Moscow men were rounded up at homeless assistance centers, hostels and rehearsal studios—to fight in Ukraine

  Article 28 October 2022, 8:37
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  “They keep asking why we aren’t scared to help them.” Long queues for Ukrainian refugees on their way out of Russia, and the volunteers who help them

  Article 8 October 2022, 1:56
• “We don't need your damn humanitarian aid, you can shove it up your ass.” How two patriotic citizens of Pskov drove humanitarian aid to Ukraine and never returned

  Article 5 August 2022, 20:06