“A natural question arose, whose portraits, well, more broadly speaking, images are actually found in positions, in dispositions and vehicles. Memory and chatter brought the following result. Naturally and by a huge margin, religious symbols - icons and derivatives - took first place. Comrade Stalin is on the third. Well, the second one, of course, is anime.

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Collage: Novaya Gazeta Europe A new initiative aims to challenge the dominance of Russian by supporting literature in the country’s numerous indigenous languages PEN Languages of Russia , a new initiative co-founded by Russian writer Sergey Lebedev, aims to support "independent, anti-authoritarian, anti-war literary figures" writing in the many languages indigenous to Russia — from Avar to Chuvash to Tatar.

Collage: “New Newspaper Europe” PEN Languages ​​of Russia is a new literary organization challenging the hegemony of the Russian language.

How a barbecue lawyer from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic single-handedly fights the revival of the personality cult of Joseph Stalin Photo: Vitaly Smolnikov / Kommersant 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT AZAR ILYA VILYAMOVICH OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT AZAR ILYA VILYAMOVICH.

If an ethnic Hungarian, who had never left his native village in Ukrainian Transcarpathia, suddenly found himself in the capital of Hungary in the spring of 2026, he probably would not have immediately understood whether this was Budapest or Kyiv. The entire city is densely plastered with portraits of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

Raising a child with cerebral palsy and epilepsy in Russia was not easy for manager Anna Testova . So much so that once she started fighting injustice, she couldn’t stop.

In a normal situation, a person moves to another country, having prepared himself, with documents and legal grounds to live in a new place. Among the hundreds of thousands of Russians who have emigrated in recent years, many have big problems with legalization, and the Russian passport is now only an additional irritant for the bureaucracy in a number of countries.

Where does the Motherland begin for those who were deported to Russia from the USA? Photo: Zuma/TASS 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT AZAR ILYA VILYAMOVICH OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT AZAR ILYA VILYAMOVICH. Over the past six months, four charter flights carrying dozens of Russians deported from the United States have landed in Moscow.

The number of rallies has increased sharply in Russia. What are people up against? A rally dedicated to the anniversary of the October Revolution in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Photo: Nikolay Mikhalchenko / TASS 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT AZAR ILYA VILYAMOVICH OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT AZAR ILYA VILYAMOVICH. In the fall of 2025, the number of protests in Russia increased sharply—and those coordinated with the authorities.

Interview with former British Ambassador to Russia Laurie Bristow People walk along the streets of the city of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, January 20, 2023. Photo: Oleg Petrasyuk / EPA The President of Hughes Hall (a college at the University of Cambridge), Laurie Bristow, served as the British Ambassador to Russia from 2016 to 2020. During his service, ex-GRU colonel Sergei Skripal was poisoned in Salisbury.

The left activist Ruslan Abasov in the struggle for the right to live, as he wants, sat in prisons of three different countries. He told Ilya Azar about his adventures Ruslan Abasov. Photo: Evgeny Petukhov / "New Gazeta Europe" The activist of the Left Bloc Ruslan Abasov had four criminal cases behind him, but for the first time he got into prison after Fayer lit a fire and deployed a banner “Happy Chkista” in Moscow in December 2021 with his associates.

Ilya Azar understands the confusing history of the Russian oppositionist, who was sitting in a German prison for five years for arson of the house of RIA Novosti Illustration: "New Gazeta Europe" At the end of May 2025, the German federal court rejected the founder of the Unkremlin movement Dmitry Bagrash and approved the verdict sent to him a year earlier: 5 years and 4 months of prison for attempted murder.

Liberated political prisoner Natalya Dulina - in an interview with Ilya Azar about everyday life in the colony, exporting to Lithuania with Tikhalovsky and the price of transactions with Lukashenko Illustration: Alisa Krasnikova / "New Gazeta Europe" Natalya Dulina taught at the Italian Language Department at the Minsk Linguistic University, when the President of Belarus was held in August 2020.

The Turkish opposition brought millions of people into the streets, but he wants to change Erdogan in the elections. Reporting Ilya Azar Protesters are waving Turkish flags during a rally organized by the Republican People’s Party in support of the arrested mayor of Istanbul Imanoglu in Maltepa, on the outskirts of Istanbul, March 29, 2025.