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Russia (Federation)

If These Walls Could Talk

The strange history of our futile border fortifications

The Bodies in The Forest

by Masha Gessen,

By Masha Gessen, from Never Remember: Searching for Stalin’s Gulags in Putin’s Russia, which will be published next month by Columbia Global Reports. Gessen’s book The Future Is History won…

The Trial

by Maria Alyokhina,

By Maria Alyokhina, from Riot Days, a memoir. Alyokhina is a member of the music group and art collective Pussy Riot, along with Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. In February…

Teachable Moment

From a conversation that took place in March in a high school classroom in Bryansk, Russia. Earlier that day, Maxim, a student, was arrested for spreading information about an unsanctioned…

From Russia, With Lies

From 1,649 factually untrue reports published by pro-Kremlin media outlets over the past eighteen months. The reports were compiled by the Disinformation Review, a European Union project set up to…

The New Red Scare

by Andrew Cockburn,

Reviving the art of threat inflation

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by Jimmy Turrell, Antoine Gyori,

Restricted Areas

by Danila Tkachenko,

Glasnost Half Full

From the transcript of a staff meeting at RBC, a media company based in Moscow, in July. An audio recording of the meeting was leaked to Meduza, a Russian-language news…

Trick of the Russian Soul

by Svetlana Aleksievich,

From Secondhand Time, an oral history of post-Soviet Russia compiled by Svetlana Alexievich and published last month by Random House. Alexievich is the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in…

Fugue State

by Sarah A. Topol,

The struggle for national identity in wartime Ukraine