Opinion “But you’re one of us!” No, I’m not Dankhayaa Khovalyg believes that her native Republic of Tyva is de-facto a colony in Russia rather than an equal member of the federation. Here’s why. Your donation makes independent Russian journalism possible Support journal Q&A “This is the last Russian war” Historian Alexander Etkind recently published a book on how Russia is fighting a war against the contemporary world. Holod has spoken to him about how Russia is waging that war, and when it is going to end Magazine Russian gays are murdered in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, just as in Chechnya If you cannot believe in it, read these three stories Opinion: society Don’t Look, Don’t See, Don’t Know Sociologist Svetlana Stephenson on why Russians are in denial about the war Svetlana Stephenson 25.08.2022 Magazine You’re turning your daughter into a Russia-hating monster Arguments, denunciations and threats: how Russians argue over the war in group chats for neighbors and schoolkids’ parents. Holod 22.03.2023 Magazine: our children When Your Mom Is an Ogre Russian children’s author Yulia Yakovleva talked to children in Russia for two months about their experiences of the war. Here is what she found Yulia Yakovleva 12.08.2022 Magazine The most Slavic among the Slavs Three decades ago, Russian soldiers invaded a newly independent state to “protect” the Russian-speaking population: it happened in Transnistria, a region of Moldova. With that war still fresh in many Transnistrians’ memories, they’re now grappling with the effects of the war raging in neighboring Ukraine Olesia Ostapchuk 04.05.2023 Magazine My Life for the Party Mary Reed, an American, arrived in the Soviet Union in 1927. In the land of her dreams, she found love but lost her freedom. Victoria Lee 28.03.2023 Magazine: pop scene The end of the “post-Soviet” cultural space Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered the common cultural space which had its center in Moscow. Holod examines today’s pop music to figure out what Russian culture is turning into Aleksandr Gorbachev 19.12.2022 Magazine: perversion of justice Lessons Learned On an island in the Pacific a schoolteacher would always help colleagues in need. When his native village was bombed out they reported him to the police for anti-war stance Holod 19.08.2022 Magazine Airborne Infection Vladimir Solovyov is a man of many professions. He studied engineering and economics, taught physics at a high school, ran a variety of successful businesses, and hosted Russia’s most popular talk shows of the 2000s. Today he is the arch-warmonger of the Russian state media. Olesia Ostapchuk 21.03.2023
Opinion “But you’re one of us!” No, I’m not Dankhayaa Khovalyg believes that her native Republic of Tyva is de-facto a colony in Russia rather than an equal member of the federation. Here’s why.
Q&A “This is the last Russian war” Historian Alexander Etkind recently published a book on how Russia is fighting a war against the contemporary world. Holod has spoken to him about how Russia is waging that war, and when it is going to end
Magazine Russian gays are murdered in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, just as in Chechnya If you cannot believe in it, read these three stories
Opinion: society Don’t Look, Don’t See, Don’t Know Sociologist Svetlana Stephenson on why Russians are in denial about the war Svetlana Stephenson 25.08.2022
Magazine You’re turning your daughter into a Russia-hating monster Arguments, denunciations and threats: how Russians argue over the war in group chats for neighbors and schoolkids’ parents. Holod 22.03.2023
Magazine: our children When Your Mom Is an Ogre Russian children’s author Yulia Yakovleva talked to children in Russia for two months about their experiences of the war. Here is what she found Yulia Yakovleva 12.08.2022
Magazine The most Slavic among the Slavs Three decades ago, Russian soldiers invaded a newly independent state to “protect” the Russian-speaking population: it happened in Transnistria, a region of Moldova. With that war still fresh in many Transnistrians’ memories, they’re now grappling with the effects of the war raging in neighboring Ukraine Olesia Ostapchuk 04.05.2023
Magazine My Life for the Party Mary Reed, an American, arrived in the Soviet Union in 1927. In the land of her dreams, she found love but lost her freedom. Victoria Lee 28.03.2023
Magazine: pop scene The end of the “post-Soviet” cultural space Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered the common cultural space which had its center in Moscow. Holod examines today’s pop music to figure out what Russian culture is turning into Aleksandr Gorbachev 19.12.2022
Magazine: perversion of justice Lessons Learned On an island in the Pacific a schoolteacher would always help colleagues in need. When his native village was bombed out they reported him to the police for anti-war stance Holod 19.08.2022
Magazine Airborne Infection Vladimir Solovyov is a man of many professions. He studied engineering and economics, taught physics at a high school, ran a variety of successful businesses, and hosted Russia’s most popular talk shows of the 2000s. Today he is the arch-warmonger of the Russian state media. Olesia Ostapchuk 21.03.2023