2+ hour, 39+ min ago  (944+ words) Russia has entered a new era of book censorship. Publishers are pulling titles from shelves and adding disclaimers about banned content. New works of fiction and nonfiction are appearing with entire pages removed or blacked out. And law enforcement is…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (596+ words) On April 3, a Bryansk resident was convicted and sentenced'to nine years in prison for "financing terrorism." Allegedly he transferred cryptocurrency to Artpodgotovka, a left-wing nationalist organization. The political entity'was banned in Russia in 2017. Former Saratov Duma legislator and blogger Vyacheslav…...

3+ day, 50+ min ago  (605+ words) On April 1, the independent publication " " (Important Stories) released an article presenting a brief study of current online humor. Its author, anthropologist Alexandra Arkhipova, noted that Instagram reels have become a gray area where Russians can relax." The fact is that…...

5+ day, 45+ min ago  (675+ words) In a'recent analysis for The Bell, Alexandra Prokopenko shows that the Kremlin's "spring offensive" to shutdown the mobile internet, VPN services and Telegram, has revealed a dysfunctional regime that only knows how to respond by ramping up control and censorship....

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (735+ words) Although ultimately not nominated, My Undesirable Friends: Part I " Last Air in Moscow is "a remarkable record of a community of creative professionals who thrived during years of relative media freedoms in the country, but ultimately could not survive the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (599+ words) This is our new monthly language column that has taken the reins over from our long-running Survival Russian column in the magazine. Each month we focus on a word or phrase trending in Russian culture and society. In March, the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (835+ words) On March 14, 2026, a concert titled "Pokhorony Zimy" ("Funeral of Winter") took place at a club in Yaroslavl, featuring four bands performing extreme heavy music with pagan themes. During a set by the Arkhangelsk-based pagan black metal band Garmskrik, security forces…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (629+ words) On the night of March 17-18, pro-government blogger Ilya Remeslo suddenly spoke out[translatedhereinto English]against the Russian president's actions and became hero for a day. In a series of telegram posts issued one after another, he called Vladimir Putin a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (461+ words) A Russian woman recently demanded in court that there be a halt to the social media distribution of her summer dacha recipes. Remarkably, she won the case. The court ruled in her favor, saying that her work had indeed been…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (630+ words) When the film "Mr. Nobody against Putin," which deals with propaganda in Russian schools, was screened in the West, Russian official media, of course, was quick to condemn it as "Russophobic." Now that the film won the 2026 Academy Award for…...