Every Saturday, relatives of reservists drafted to fight in Ukraine gather to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. However, as last Saturday marked 500 days since Russian President Vladimir Putin declared mobilisation in the country, far more people than usual gathered near the Kremlin to demand their loved ones be allowed to return home.
Writer Svetlana Satchkova’s first novel in English follows a Russian film director who stays out of politics — until it comes for her
Russian preschoolers will soon be subjected to pro-war indoctrination before they can even read or write
How Russia’s Vologda region banned the sale of alcohol, but not its purchase and consumption
How a Ukrainian woman found herself working in a Cambodian scam compound
A new initiative aims to challenge the dominance of Russian by supporting literature in the country’s numerous indigenous languages
Pioneer Summer sparked a wave of censorship in Russia. Now it’s part of a growing literary resistance.
The head of Russia’s Catholics resigned for 'health reasons’. But sources say the real reason was his anti-war stance
Novaya Gazeta Europe reports from Primorsk and Ust-Luga in the aftermath of drone attacks on Russia’s Baltic Sea ports
After three drone attacks on a Russian refinery in two weeks, Tuapse residents say authorities are ignoring the public health fallout
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