Novaya Gazeta

Court sentenced farmer and father of four to a fine of 350,000 rubles for social media comment

Farmer Oleg Nemtsev has been found guilty of justifying terrorism and sentenced to a fine of 350 thousand rubles (€3800). Nemtsev himself announced this in social networks.
November 06, 2020

Fatal situations in the Murmansk "dirty zone"

People in the Murmansk region are dying from COVID-19 and the carelessness of officials
November 04, 2020

Glass beads for the indigenous people of Chukotka

Why did the Chukchi village complain to the UN and what does Roman Abramovich have to do with it?
October 18, 2020

Instructions from Deputy PM Trutnev on Komi gold

In the north Russian Komi Republic, officials from companies with Cypriot roots want to allow gold mining in a national park of international importance. Here are their names.
October 13, 2020

FSB casts its net over the fishing business

Border guards make it impossible to fish in the Barents Sea, depriving the local population of their main livelihood
October 09, 2020

They are no longer counted as indigenous people

The FSB takes full control of native populations. Why is that?!
October 07, 2020

Playing on the bones of prisoners

Convicts in Komi to be used as free labor to develop titanium deposit
October 05, 2020

After the elections, the new Arkhangelsk governor no longer guarantees an end to repressions against Shies' defenders

October 02, 2020

A billion rubles for a tent

A mobile hospital for the care of coronavirus patients in Murmansk fails to get built.
September 29, 2020

Activist from Arkhangelsk showing solidarity with Belarus fined by police

September 25, 2020

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