Customers keep asking if we are publishing a Russian Life calendar for 2023. We are not. This is why.

Latvia annulled the Russian news network TV Rain's broadcasting license due to pro-Russian government narratives.

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

We are all daily shaken and unsettled by the fire hose of bad news from Russia and Ukraine, and we all would love “something good, loving, and light from Russia to counterbalance the darkness, the senseless brutality, and the horrors perpetrated by Russian hands in Ukraine.”

“All of this is very bitter."

– Russian newscaster Dmitry Kiselev

A Russian journalist, already arrested for speaking out against the invasion of Ukraine, has had her home raided by authorities.

Approximately 138,000 websites have been taken down or banned in Russia since the start of the invasion of Ukraine. 

“[This report] does not mean that Amnesty International holds Ukrainian forces responsible for violations committed by Russian forces, or that the Ukrainian military is not taking adequate precautions in other parts of the country. We must be very clear: nothing of the actions of the Ukrainian military, which we have documented, in any way justify Russia's violations.” 

                                   –  From a report released by Amnesty International

“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

We are resuming publication of Russian Life, aiming to once again tell stories about Russia that are not being told elsewhere, but now with a new sense of purpose.

Russian journalists need help. Now. Russian Life and its community can help. [video]

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