The names of the characters have been changed for security reasons. “We live like this: if we buy a piece of meat in a store, we’ll cook it and eat it right away.” Irina Dzhankoy; about 40 kilometers to the actual border with Ukraine I am from the Kherson region, but in 2023 I moved to Dzhankoy. I have no relatives here; I moved [with my husband and two children] on my own. In Dzhankoy we have a two-story house. When arrivals occur, we go down from the second floor and sit in the bathroom.

Kirill GoncharovPress service of the Yabloko party The interview started a little later than planned. Kirill Goncharov immediately explains why he was delayed. “I asked to postpone the conversation for five minutes, because at the same time we had a trial of a young man, Artem Kuznetsov. We don’t know him, like most of the detainees who were at the Supreme Court, but one way or another we are responsible for him in absentia. He was given 14 days of arrest.

Paul (name changed) 19 years old, applicant and Yabloko volunteer from Moscow I followed Yabloko for probably four years, from ninth grade, and always respected their position. And a couple of weeks ago I became a party volunteer. I put up leaflets, scatter booklets in [mail] boxes. True, according to my observations, many do not even look at the leaflets, and some even tear them off. You can see how in which entrances they treat Yabloko. I also run TikTok, but it doesn’t belong to the party.

Nizhnekamsk, a city on the banks of the Kama River, 220 kilometers from Kazan, was founded during the construction of the Nizhnekamsk petrochemical plant, one of the largest in the USSR. Now there are two oil refineries in the city - Taneco and TAIF. They regularly become targets for Ukrainian drones: arrivals were recorded in both June and July . But the August 10 attack stands out.

Attention! There is swearing in this text. If this is unacceptable to you, do not read it. “It feels like we are in a hostile world” One June night in 2026, Oleg’s family from the Moscow region woke up at four in the morning to the sounds of explosions and drones flying over their house. It was impossible to sleep in such a situation: it was too scary. That morning, Oleg says, they heard “no sirens, no warnings” about the threat of an attack - as if even such warnings are prohibited in Russia.

Those gathered near the Supreme Court building greeted the chairman of the Yabloko party, Nikolai Rybakov, almost like a rock star: they shouted and applauded him, many tried to shake hands or even just touch the politician. At 10 a.m. a meeting is scheduled to begin, as a result of which Yabloko was nevertheless removed from participation in the State Duma elections.

To understand what kind of people travel from Russia to the occupied territories, and what the occupation means for Ukrainians, Bereg spoke with Russian settlers, indigenous Melitopol residents and the Ukrainian resistance movement “Evil Mavka” . “I thought: ‘God, my business has closed’ - I still didn’t know what they would do to my family.” Lyudmila Plachkova, 34 years old. Born and raised in Melitopol, due to the occupation she left for Bulgaria.

The names of the interlocutors from the Gulag History Museum have been changed for security reasons. The Moscow Gulag History Museum "addresses with rare honesty some of the very difficult issues concerning human rights, democracy and the rule of law in the 20th century." With this formulation, in 2021 he received the prestigious Council of Europe Award. In Russia, only three museums have such awards.

The Yabloko party, ahead of the elections scheduled for September 2026, faced unprecedented pressure from the authorities and political competitors. After Yabloko was allowed to participate in the State Duma elections, the Rodina party filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and demanded that the registration of Yabloko’s federal list be canceled; the lawsuit will be considered on August 10.

Road to Crimea The minibus to Feodosia is only a third full. There are not a single tourist among the passengers, only local residents. This is clear from the conversations and the complete absence of large luggage. My fellow travelers are wondering how long they will have to stand in front of the entrance to the Kerch Bridge. They say that sometimes we had to wait for 16 hours, but journalists did not write about this.

“In correspondence she is a little more fun than in life” — How did you meet Dasha? — In 2021 on Facebook. One of my friends reposted Dasha’s post and I wrote several comments under it. She added me as a friend, wrote me in private messages, and we started talking. I don't remember the post anymore. But Dasha wrote about a lot of things, for example, about women’s rights and mental health. She is very sociable, open, and many have entered into discussions with her.

Tyumen residents began having problems with foul-smelling tap water in mid-July. During this time, amid the silence and inaction of the authorities, city residents posted dozens of videos on social networks showing bathtubs filled with rusty water and jokingly comparing the water with kvass and Coca Cola Zero - because of its color.

On the night of July 18, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the two largest Wildberries warehouses - in Elektrostal near Moscow and Kotovsk, a small city in the Tambov region. As a result of both attacks, 80 people were injured. Eight warehouse employees in Kotovsk were killed. "Bereg" went to Tambov.

Due to the Ukrainian attack on Wildberries warehouses on July 18, thousands of businesses lost goods. The company will not compensate for their losses: at the beginning of the month, Wildberries added a new clause to the contract, according to which the marketplace is not liable to sellers if the goods are destroyed due to a drone strike. We spoke with four entrepreneurs whose businesses were under threat.

A Bereg photojournalist visited Elektrostal, the city where Ukrainian Armed Forces drones attacked the Wildberries warehouse. If you don’t look at the sky, covered with smoke from the fire, it seems as if Elektrostal is an ordinary summer weekend: someone is going to nature, someone is walking with their family. We show what the city looked like on July 18th.