STORIES

The Federal Tax Service is tightening controls on citizens' spending: who is at risk? New income accounting rules for benefits. How to avoid fines and tax summonses.

Why are supporters of the "healer" Lada-Rus attracting the attention of security forces?

Why does Russia need a tunnel to Alaska?

Oppositionists and "thought criminals." Who are political prisoners in modern Russia?

How a yard song contest has been bringing the city together for 22 years in a row

How directors in the North Caucasus are making honest and powerful films about the fates of women, freedom, and the consequences of war—and winning prizes in Cannes and Berlin.

How the Soviet government destroyed Chukotka

Honor Killings in Chechnya: From Demonstrative Executions to State Approval

Anniversary, Gulag, and a shift. The history of the Far East that's not in textbooks.

BSC's raw material shortage, a change in company ownership, and a narrowing of opportunities for protest are creating a new threat to the ancient mountains.

The Kyshtym accident of 1957: the story of a secret disaster at the Mayak plant, the consequences of which were hushed up for decades.

Seas of Russia: from the Black to the Pacific Ocean

How Yakut cinema transformed from a local experiment into an international brand

September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day

How they torture in Russia and how they punish for torture

The head of the Kamensky district of the Penza region, Alexander Pomogaybo, was beaten on August 27 when he made another remark about landscaping in the private sector. The official is currently in hospital with an open craniocerebral injury and a fractured scapula.

Photo project by Vilya Ravilov about life in the mining town of Prokopyevsk.

Boris Trushin, a teacher at the Foxford online school, talks about the good and bad points of the Unified State Exam, the meaning of homework, and the double (or triple) negative selection of teachers.

How the view on divorce is changing in Ingushetia

On July 27, Russia celebrates Navy Day. In the third year of the war, it is being celebrated in a truncated format, without the traditional formation of ships and parades. The Kremlin fears drone attacks, which could destroy the last vestiges of its combat power.

How women became targets of repression in the Caucasus and why the situation will only worsen

Metallurgical companies are attempting to enter the Kyrkty-Tau ridge in Bashkortostan for the second time. Locals are prepared to fight, authorities are deploying security forces to the area, and observers are predicting another act of state corporate raiding.

How Circassians preserve the memory of their tragic past, and why the state is increasingly uncomfortable with it.

A resident of the Khabarovsk region has been trying for two years to prove that he killed a tiger while protecting his brother, but the court, following the police, ruled it poaching.

Heavy equipment in the Russian Arctic is damaging the ecosystem, climate, and indigenous peoples, according to a study by Arktida.

Map of Russia left without mobile internet and communications

"My name is Ilya, and I'm a deserter." "The Pit," resetting, beatings, and torture with a stun gun. "NeMoskva" spoke with a man who defected from the Russian army. In his past life, 34-year-old Ilya Elokhin engaged exclusively in peaceful pursuits:

How is a priest from a small Siberian town living? He was excommunicated a year ago for his anti-war stance and refusal to recite the "Patriarch's Prayer."

Why are families of war veterans in Ukraine breaking up, and who is trying to save them?

The trial of prominent Sakhalin human rights activist Mark Kuperman, accused of promoting terrorism, is drawing to a close in Sakhalin.