SOCIETYDoves at heart: Sociologists discover most Russians want a ceasefireMikhail Turchenko24 January 2025
SOCIETY“We celebrated like we were at a wedding!”: Syria’s first month under new leadership — A report by The InsiderMAMaria Alexeeva22 January 2025
SOCIETYA deal with the devils: Israelis find no reason for optimism while Hamas celebrates victory Marianna Belenkaya17 January 2025
SOCIETY“My own classmates turned me in”: How Russian universities are cracking down on anti-war activistsALAlyona Lobankova4 January 2025
SOCIETYSlaughterhouse Damascus: Inside Sednaya, the Assad regime’s most brutal prisonNNikita Aronov30 December 2024
SOCIETYKids and social media: Why TikTok and Facebook are not as harmful to children's mental health as is widely believedEKElia Kabanov24 December 2024
SOCIETY“The unwilling were tasered or had their papers signed for them”: Russia’s fall conscription drive reaches new levels of brutalityVictoria Ponomareva24 December 2024
SOCIETY“No water, no gas in the house, humanitarian aid consists solely of canned food”: The growing humanitarian crisis in GazaAGAlla Gavrilova20 December 2024
SOCIETYThe ribbon of merit. How Ukrainian partisans fight the enemy in Russian-occupied territoriesKOKaryna Olykova14 December 2024
SOCIETY“The jihadists are trying to show how progressive they are. But we don’t believe them!”: Syria’s minorities fear the anti-Assad rebels’ riseMAMaria Alexeeva12 December 2024
SOCIETY“Not being able to perform in Russia is a tragedy”: Rock musician Boris Grebenshchikov on life after 2022Lev Gankin29 November 2024
SOCIETY“United in hatred of Khamenei”: Lessons learned from half a century of Iranian opposition in exile NNikita Aronov26 November 2024
SOCIETYDe-FIDE-zation: Russian influence in chess faces challenges beyond sanctionsDenis Bilunov23 November 2024
SOCIETYA fractured rainbow: How the Middle East war split the global LGBTQ communityAGAlla Gavrilova21 November 2024
SOCIETYMultiplication by zero: Russia’s promised childbirth support turns into reproductive pressureMAMaria Alexeeva17 November 2024
SOCIETY“A cheerful guy, honor student, it beats me how he became a terrorist”: Why Dagestan failed to prevent a bloody Islamist attack ASAmir Saidov23 October 2024
SOCIETYThe Kremlin Arena: Russian oligarchs locked in struggle over Finland’s largest stadiumEPElizaveta Pyatnitskaya9 October 2024
SOCIETY“They painted us all as traitors”: Environmental protests in Bashkortostan morph into Russia's largest political trialMAMaria Alexeeva3 October 2024
SOCIETYThe Last of Us: How the Karaites, Crimea's smallest indigenous people, survive under occupation Yuriy Matsarsky2 October 2024
SOCIETY“How do they make us sign contracts? They stick needles under our fingernails”: Wounded Russian soldiers forced back into the fightVictoria Ponomareva25 September 2024
SOCIETYDurov’s anatomical theater: How the Telegram trial is reshaping relations between governments and tech giantsAAnna Korban 23 September 2024
SOCIETYMachine guns over Patriots, covered Russian monuments, and the switch to Ukrainian language: Daily life in frontline KharkivYuriy Matsarsky20 September 2024
SOCIETY “Those who abandoned us won’t come to the rescue”: Kursk residents go to the polls amid Ukraine’s ongoing offensiveMAMaria Alexeeva18 September 2024
SOCIETYBeyond XY: the history of transgender athletes is more complicated than Vladimir Putin thinksEPElizaveta Pyatnitskaya10 September 2024
SOCIETYTheater of Anti-War: How Russia failed to conquer the stage for pro-war propagandaIIraida Stepanova4 September 2024
SOCIETYWar games: Russia's push to militarize youth through summer campsNNikita Aronov2 September 2024
SOCIETYOn thin ice: Russia's unfolding climate catastrophe and the road aheadTatiana Lanshina29 August 2024
SOCIETY“A month later my prosthesis fell apart”: Russia's war veterans are much worse off than Israel's — and somewhat worse off than Ukraine'sATAnna Trebnik29 August 2024
SOCIETYSoaring above sanctions: Miller, Timchenko, Deripaska, Rotenberg, and other Russian oligarchs buy parts for their private jets in the WestSergei Ezhov28 August 2024
SOCIETY“I wish everyone in the Kremlin would drop dead”: Testimonies from war-torn Kursk Oblast, where locals have been left to their own devicesMAMaria Alexeeva23 August 2024
SOCIETYPoor man’s lend-lease: Russia continues to import U.S. microchips needed for missile navigation and Internet censorship despite sanctionsDLDada Lyndell 23 August 2024AZAndrey Zayakin23 August 2024
SOCIETYNo country for Tajiks: How the EU extradites refugees to Emomali Rahmon's dictatorship over false accusations of links to ISISETEvgenia Tamarchenko and Pavel Reshka13 August 2024
SOCIETYThe Kremlin’s war on streaming: How Russia is moving to block YouTube and why its efforts may bring down the entire RunetDLDada Lyndell 13 August 2024Roman Dobrokhotov13 August 2024
SOCIETYWafer rush: Taiwanese silicon is a key component for Russian military microchip productionAZAndrey Zayakin30 July 2024Yian Lee30 July 2024
SOCIETYDisaster medicine: How war and government actions block Russia's access to advanced medical technologiesMBMaria Blokhina22 July 2024
SOCIETYMicroloans and mega-fraud: notorious Russian swindler’s family living in the West binds thousands of Russians in debtSergei Ezhov17 July 2024