Did Putin apologize for Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's outrageous lies?

Russia's independent media has been destroyed in the wake of the Ukraine war. Which fearless outlets continue to report and need your help?

Over the years, Sergei Elkin has created hundreds of cartoons satirizing Russia's politicians and elites. 

Remembering the Maidan protests of 2014 and how Ukrainians fought back when their freedom was threatened.

“Direct, open, and hard.”

– Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer describing his talk with Putin

“This is the state of someone who feels like a particle in the ocean. Someone else has decided everything for them. This learned passivity is our tragedy.”

– A political analyst in Moscow regarding Russian support of the war

What the Kremlin is telling Russians about the war in Ukraine.

A one-woman anti-war picket interrupts Russia's most important state news program to tell the country, "They are lying to you!"

While state censor Roskomnadzor objects to the terms attack, invasion, or war being used for the Russian "special military operation" in Ukraine, average Russians are showing their disapproval.

In which we unpack what Putin had to say about Ukraine while in France and what it's got to do with a punk band and a folk ditty.

Where we remember Vladimir Lagrange, the photographer who showed everyday Soviets living their lives.

“Usually, to put money on a card, you need an ATM; with magicians, everything is much simpler: just rub a coin and it becomes invisible.”

– Eugene, at Nevyansk prison, as he shows off a magic trick.