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How Kremlin-backed super-app MAX is gradually being made obligatory in Russian schools

In a gross miscarriage of justice, eight innocent people have been given life sentences for the Crimean Bridge bombing

One Ukrainian sergeant tells Novaya Europe he is prepared to defend Donbas from Russian forces for as long as it takes

How realistic are Putin’s threats to impose a naval blockade on Ukraine?

The Kremlin is taking aim at Russia’s sole remaining legal opposition movement

A cohort of pro-Kremlin content creators is shamelessly portraying the Russian occupation of Mariupol in a positive light

How Belarusian political prisoners are being forced to support the Russian war effort in Ukraine

The widow of the first person to die at Chernobyl was killed by a Russian drone strike on her home earlier this month

The Russian region worst impacted by the war in Ukraine is being overwhelmed by the cost of reconstruction

The cruel treatment of a civil activist has become a metaphor for the fate of dissenters throughout Russia

What does Alexander Lukashenko’s latest eccentric diatribe tell us about his state of mind?

Life in the Estonian border villages just metres from Russia

Young Russians have responded to the arrest of singer Naoko with protest videos that are going viral on TikTok

Patriotism, TikTok and the new Pioneers: why school-age Russians are joining pro-Kremlin youth organisations

A remote village in Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains has become a pit stop for military-aged men escaping to Romania

How Kyiv is preparing for another difficult winter amid massive Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure