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Activist Zhanna Nemtsova on why depriving small-time Russian investors of their assets in the West won’t help undermine Putin

A veteran diplomat explains how the upcoming Trump-Putin summit is amateurish and politically driven

Ukrainian documentary maker and former combatant Alisa Kovalenko discusses her new film

Exiled Russian activist Grigory Sverdlin discusses how the war in Ukraine is reshaping Russia’s charity sector

How Southampton-based anaesthesiologist Leonid Krivsky rowed across the Atlantic, collected £50,000 for Ukraine and found himself along the way

Ilya Politkovsky on Words of War, the first feature film about his mother, Anna Politkovskaya

Veteran human rights activist Oleg Orlov on his recent mission to Ukraine to document Russian war crimes

What does the imprisonment of Navalny’s lawyers mean for Russia’s criminal justice system?

Disarmament expert Pavel Podvig on what circumstances could lead Russia to use nuclear weapons against the West

The artistic director of one of Germany’s highest-profile opera houses on working with Russian creatives despite the war

Moscow politician Alexey Gusev on evading arrest before going into exile and what he learnt from Alexey Navalny

Memorial chairman Oleg Orlov describes his ordeal in prison and the run up to last week’s prisoner swap

French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné speaks with Novaya Gazeta Europe to mark World Press Freedom Day

Anna Politkovskaya Award winner Lucy Kassa on the horrors of the war in Tigray and its legacy of injustice

Nikolay Platonov, a former Russian Orthodox priest, on Russia’s sickness and Navalny’s sanctity

How Putin’s post-election euphoria led him to finally speak Alexey Navalny’s name out loud