Democracy and Media

towards totalitarianism

Russia prepares law requiring foreigners to sign 'loyalty agreement'

The ECHR awards compensation for inhumane conditions in Russian prisons

Northern republic

“What, you decided to go against Russians?” 18-year-old activist had to flee Russia after FSB interrogation

witch-hunt

Moscow Times branded as a "foreign agent"

Siberia

Mikhail sentenced to five years in jail for writing the truth

Youth protest

Police in Murmansk detains 15-year old girl for wearing pin with Ukrainian colours

Rebel politician

“Opposition and emigration are two sets that do not intersect.” Interview with Viktor Vorobyov, Russia's first “foreign agent” lawmaker

Maxim Kirilenko

“State for the people, not cogs for the empire.” A Murmansk politician ran for office under anti-war slogans

Dmitry Vasilets

The Murmansk officer who refused to fight in Ukraine is declared political prisoner by human rights organisation Memorial

Public opinion

“Moscow will burn down, and we will throw more matches.” How Russians reacted to Prigozhin's coup

Political Repression

Russia declares Norway-headquartered Human Rights House ‘undesirable’

Discrimination law

“Panic, people are depressed, life has collapsed.” Transgender people on "sex change" ban in Russia

Media crackdown

TV Rain declared ‘undesirable organization’

Environment

Russia bans Greenpeace

Newsroom

Olesia is new journalist in the Barents Observer

repression

How the state crushed the protest movement in the Arkhangelsk region

Cross-border

Quest for freedom and love. Norwegians and Russians gather in border town Kirkenes for Barents Pride

We are crowdfunding

Guess what Vladimir Putin and the Barents Observer have in common?

Who owns what?

Russia lawmakers move to classify real estate ownership data

1,658 CCTV cameras

Murmansk gets comprehensive facial-recognition surveillance system

Moscow threatens to block Marianne's news online over interview from 2018

Russia's liberal Dozhd TV returns to the air after wartime crackdown

Fighting the regime

Leading Putin-critics from Arkhangelsk are wanted by police

Novaya Gazeta’s Norwegian domain NO magazine blocked

dictatorship

Russia has blocked 138,000 websites since Ukraine invasion, prosecutor says

In border town Kirkenes, local Russians stand up against war

The other Russia

The Russian fight against war

Kremlin censorship

Russia blocks Finnish broadcaster YLE

Viktor Vorobyev

A lonely politician from the Russian North speaks up against war

SIDA

Russia kicks out Sweden’s development agency

war censorship

Siberian journalist jailed for military ‘Fakes’ moved to psychiatric care

For almost 15 years they have published independent news from the Russian North. Now they are blocked

restart

Novaya Gazeta launches European edition in bid to dodge Kremlin censorship

Russia is leaving the Council of Europe

'Slava Ukraine,' the man from Arkhangelsk shouted before he was ushered away by police

As new iron curtain descends, Moscow takes action against "foreign influence"

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