STORIES
Kuraev on the relics: why do Patriarch Kirill and the authorities need them?
Twice a foreign agent of the Russian Federation
Environmentalists are accused of slander and libel and are considered foreign agents.
"There was a feeling that the authorities would not forget such a slap in the face."
Four years ago, a wave of large-scale street protests began in Russia…
"Growing old sitting at home on the couch is not for me."
Stories of Yekaterinburg activist pensioners who used to picket, but now...
"This is how the Indians were driven from their lands for the sake of gold."
How residents of a unique region in the Altai Krai are trying to fight for…
Twenty years on the gallows
How the murder of a schoolgirl became a tool in the political games of the "two kings" in…
The holiday is coming to us...
Our correspondent spent the New Year holidays in the frontline towns of Belgorod and Shebekino and talked to people.
Let's look back to 2024
Events of the year according to the editors and readers of the media outlet "Govorit NeMoskva" (Not Moscow Speaking)
Kerch Strait oil spill: causes and consequences
The Kerch Strait disaster is not the first in recent years.…
"Our village was revived by Gazprom – and then abandoned."
Twenty years ago, Saratov's Belgaz became unnecessary to the gas monopoly...
We are a country of unlearned lessons
The Vologda governor plans to erect a monument to Stalin. Historian Ivan Dzhukha explained…
How I was almost scammed out of 40 rubles
A journalist's personal story about how he almost got into...
Football That Wasn't: The Story of an Unfinished Stadium in Vladikavkaz
The reconstruction of the Spartak stadium in Vladikavkaz has been delayed for four years. Disruptions…
Magadan Hospitals: Multi-Billion Dollar Debts and Solutions
Magadan hospitals owe their contractors more than two and a half billion rubles.
We have nowhere to go anyway...-
Bryansk is a quiet provincial town, despite the war that is still going on…
(Non)normative waste
The law says: if you cut down trees, you must compensate, plant the same amount, or better yet...
The Central Bank of Russia is asking for an object to be chosen for the design of the 1000-ruble banknote.
The Central Bank of Russia has selected 25 Volga region sites for the new banknote…
"Well, I'm dying, what now?"
A monologue from a man with HIV who has been living with this status for about…
A personal army for a rainy day
Why did Ramzan Kadyrov create the Russian Special Forces University and what role...
"Russians were arrested for God knows what, and Germans even more so."
How the descendants of Germans forcibly resettled to Ivdel preserve the memory of…
"Unwanted people in a highly sought-after place"
An Irkutsk photographer spent nine years photographing the people living around Lake Baikal –…
