The Panama Papers implicate more than just a few select international leaders. They demonstrate how offshore finance and corrupt leaders in the post-Soviet space thrive off each other.
The sentence against Nadiya Savchenko is absurd. Where do we go from here? Русский
The recent murder of a child in central Moscow has shocked us all. Why didn't Russian state media respond?
Mainstream media in the west and Russia is fixated on the Russian president. Here’s why we’re not. Deutsch
Building a society inclusive of autism in Russia involves battling with myths, superstition and the Soviet legacy. But civil society is forging ahead.
With the murder of a pregnant woman and her six children, Russia’s domestic violence epidemic again briefly surfaces into headlines. Perhaps one day these victims too can have their public monument.
Ukraine has a new holiday – 8 May, Day of Remembrance – and a new symbol, the poppy. But 9 May remains, as a reminder of the fact that war is ‘never a pretty story.’
Russia’s celebration of International Women’s Day may be commercial and kitsch, but that doesn’t mean Russian women should stop celebrating it.
Russian officials apparently don’t care about their country’s shocking air safety record.
The Russian government likes to regularly accuse the West of being ‘russophobic.’ They’re right, but not for the reasons they think.
Российские власти регулярно обвиняют Запад в русофобии. В этих обвинениях есть доля правды, однако реальное положение дел куда сложнее.
Peter Pomerantsev’s Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible presents a Russia with no rules and no certainty in tomorrow, a place where you must live in the moment, because the moment is all you have.
