It is now official: on stage and screen you cannot say: блядь [blyad - slut], хуй [khui - cock], пизда [pizda - cunt], ебать [yebat - fuck], and мудак [mudak - dickhead].
Pacifism is incompatible with patriotism in today’s Russia. на русском языке
The reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences is not popular with scientists. Especially in Siberia.
The Ukrainian army is corrupt and badly prepared for war, with either the Donetsk People's Republic or Russia. на русском языке
Putin’s ‘personal chef' seems to have a finger in every Russian pie...
Punitive psychiatry is being revived in the Samara region. Doctors are hospitalising healthy people in psychiatric hospitals, in order to take over their flats.на русском языке
В Самарской области возрождается карательная психиатрия. Врачи госпитализируют в психиатрические больницы здоровых людей, чтобы затем распоряжаться их квартирами. in English
В Самарской области возрождается карательная психиатрия. Врачи госпитализируют в психиатрические больницы здоровых людей, чтобы затем распоряжаться их квартирами. in English
On 24 July, the Moscow City Court sentenced Sergei Udaltsov, leader of the left wing of the Russian opposition, to four-and-a-half years in prison.
Human rights defenders in Russia have released data on the numbers of Russians arrested at protests; and what they were protesting about.
Belarus is now officially the world’s heaviest drinking nation; and the socio-economic consequences are enormous.
A recent St Petersburg conference dedicated to hares has become the unlikely subject of a feud between the Russian Ministry of Culture and academic institutions. It is a hare raising story...
