Conviction of a journalist, regional dissent, and voices raised against the war.

We have received many letters and phone calls about the magazine since we restarted it in a new way this summer. As expected, there has been both support and denigration. That’s just the business we are in.

“I am asking you to include me on the foreign agents' list of my beloved country.”

– Russian pop star Alla Pugacheva, to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

“All of this is very bitter."

– Russian newscaster Dmitry Kiselev

Since the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian press has gone off the rails. Here's what they're saying.

Pro-Russian hackers took over a major Ukrainian radio station to broadcast rumors regarding President Zelensky's health.

“Today, more than ever, the citizens of Russia should have access to independent information. And therefore it is especially important for us to return to the air. We, like tens of millions of Russians, want the war to end, and Russia to return to the path of development from catastrophe and destruction.”

– Editor-in-chief Tikhon Dzyadko of Dozhd TV

Want uncensored news about what is going on in the Ukraine War (and in Russia)? You need Telegram.

It's Time. Russian Life magazine's print edition is returning.

“This year’s Journalist’s Day has a special taste of bitterness. The fourth month of a full–scale war – and we lost 32 journalists… In eight years of war we lost even more. Eternal memory to our fighters of the advanced information front."

– Ukrainian Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko

A Russian rock musician was filmed helping Russian soldiers replace a Ukrainian road sign with one reading "Russia Forever."

Belarus moves to ban George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984.