In the place of the closed GULAG Museum in Moscow, a "Museum of the Genocide of the Soviet People" is being created. If we didn’t know what a kingdom of crooked mirrors Russia is today, this could even be welcomed — after all, there really was genocide in the USSR. However, it was not at all the kind that the Russian authorities mean today

Navalny and FBK supporter applied for political asylum in the US. As a result, he spent 14 months in immigration detention, lost all his documents, and now faces deportation back to Russia.

Užupis is one of the strangest places in Europe. This city district has its own Constitution, president, ministry of foreign affairs, currency, anthem, and more than 500 ambassadors around the world. All of this is not entirely serious—a game, an art performance, a collective joke that has become part of the city’s identity. But it’s not just a joke.

Although Irina Krynyina has repeatedly dealt with grieving relatives searching for loved ones, she admits that those concerned not about prisoners but about the payments owed for their service are significantly more numerous