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Novaya Gazeta is a Russian liberal opposition newspaper well known in its country for its critical and investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs. Four Novaya Gazeta journalists, including Yury Shchekochikhin and Anna Politkovskaya, have been murdered since 2001.
The key players in the Donbas’ booming smuggling business are politicians, oligarchs, and the criminal underworld. Coal, gold, gasoline, and cigarettes are the main resources the separatists are fighting for in eastern Ukraine, an...
Who came and for what reason? The trip of the French Parliament members was organized by the Franco-Russian Dialogue Association. This organization has been in existence since 2004 and holds Franco-Russian political, economic, and cultural...
The Kremlin finally became convinced that Poroshenko will not make the concessions it wants, so it changed its tactics I consider the change of the Russian representative in the Contact Group on the Donbas to be a landmark event....
The following article is an unabridged translation of a wounded Russian tanksman’s account of his fighting in Ukraine (graphic image inside!), written by Novaya Gazeta’s reporter Elena Kostychenko. A first evaluation by The...
November 6, 2014 Snizhne, the Donbas – a crowd of elderly women and mothers with children form a huddled queue at the steps of the local administrative building. Some read the announcements taped to the entrance: there are lists of...
Bad news for Russian officials, TV preachers, and fascist ideologists: Russian culture became great when Russia became Europe. It’s been half a year since the Maidan revolution in Ukraine won and Russian officials, lawmakers and TV...
Background On August the editor’s office of a Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta got an e-mail telling of a Russian army lieutenant major Zakhar Vladimirovich Timin being killed in Ukraine. “Today my friends told me...
The question “How should we perceive and treat Putin’s Russia?” is becoming ever sharper in the West – it is asked in government offices, pondered by representative, the answer is sought by journalists, pundits,...
Nikita Girin, Novaya Gazeta. 9/12/2014 Top picture: Tamara and Lida on a train. The regional authorities bought their tickets from Ufa. However, one of them was for an overhead seat none of the elderly women can reach. They slept in...
A report on how Russia pursues hybrid war to destabilize Ukraine has been published on 16 July 2019 at the UK-based Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest independent defense and security think tank. It is the first major...
