Category: 8. Opinion

Last month, I ran through Reykjavik’s chilly streets as part of a charity race supporting Get Lost, a grassroots initiative that helps Russians avoid military conscription. While running, I kept…

Russia’s HIV statistics and dynamics were far from encouraging long before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But the war has dramatically worsened the situation. In the first year of the war,…

The protests that filled central Kyiv following the passage of a bill that weakens Ukraine’s key anti-corruption institutions are not a sign of weakness for the embattled country. It is instead a…

Francine Villa thought she’d found refuge. As a Black woman disillusioned with American racism and police violence, she moved to Russia in 2019 and began building a life she believed would be safer,…

For more than three years, Russia’s banking system has defied gravity. Crippled by Western sanctions, cut off from global financial markets and deprived of foreign capital, it has operated in a…

The majority of Russian citizens — especially young people — make no secret that being sent to the Ukrainian front is not part of their plans. 

Yet how can it be possible that the army has no…