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A young woman flees the capital to Siberia, to teach in a rural school for a year.

A poetic last word, a med student with guts, and a Trinity that wants for a home.

War transforms the image of the Soviet-era apartment building.

A paramilitary summer camp along the Volga gets the indoctrination started early.

Her pen pal was purportedly the daughter of the Last Tsarevich, who of course lived in Queens.

Even those fighting to save Russia's environment and ecology are being harassed and arrested.

The war has increased cases of domestic abuse, yet in one instance things went in an entirely different direction.

Speaking Russian in this time of war is as much about the words you cannot say as those you can.

Resistance in Russia is real, if not immediately apparent.

A young woman in Nizhny Novgorod faces extremism charges for wearing rainbow earrings. 

The anti-war music group Bi-2 was held in Thailand, and Russian officials were not too hasty to bail them out. 

A gay Chechen man forced to out himself on camera vanished after the video went viral in 2022. Now, he tells his story.