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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.

Independent sociologists have sussed out what Russians really want from their government.

A Krasnoyarsk Zoo hedgehog has predicted an early spring.

A nonprofit is assisting vegan political detainees by offering animal-product-free provisions.

A Khabarovsk gym teacher's charity provides kids with sports gear. 

A capsule of the radioactive isotope cesium-137 was found on January 19 after having been lost for nearly a week in the countryside of Irkutsk district. 

Teachers are compelling schoolchildren across Russia to join a state-sanctioned youth movement. 

Schools in Belgorod are adapting to teaching near a war zone.