How teenager gave a street concert and was caught up in Russia's repressive past

In the USSR, Soviet TV often showed the ballet following the death of Soviet leaders, and it was back on Soviet TV screens in ...

In Russia, Bookstores Offer a Shrinking Refuge as Censorship Tightens

Restrictions on publishers and sellers have grown more severe. Volumes are being pulled from shelves or redacted like secret documents, but bookstores remain important sources of community.
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Street Musicians Face Repression: The Unyielding Melody of Russian Dissent

A Russian street band, Stoptime, faces jail time for performing banned anti-Kremlin songs. The group went viral for ...

Halloween Becomes Another Target of the Kremlin’s Culture Wars

The Russian authorities canceled a festival in St. Petersburg, branding it “Satanist,” as part of a larger assault on ...
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‘Commanders Saw Us as Expendable’: A Russian Soldier’s View of the War

Mikhail Simdyankin was taking the bus to work in St. Petersburg last summer when he passed army recruitment billboards promising generous payouts to those willing to do “real man’s work.” The college ...