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We spoke to the American journalist Samantha Berkhead, the editor-in-chief of the Moscow Times English language service after her news outlet was outlawed as “undesirable” in Russia.
July 19, 2024
Barents Observer journalist Olesia Krivtsova, who fled prosecution in Arkhangelsk last year, is one of several exile-Russians recently to discover that the repressive authorities have cancelled their main ID document.
July 17, 2024
No room for high quality journalism, even the newsroom is located outside of Russia and the online newspaper already is blocked.
July 10, 2024
Yulia Navalnaya is charged in absentia with “participating in an extremist group”.
July 09, 2024
A military court in the north Russian region charged the 32 year old local man of 'terrorism.'
July 03, 2024
Moscow calls it the “retaliatory measure” after the EU suspended the broadcast of Russia-associated media outlets.
June 25, 2024
Vyacheslav Gorodetsky says the six security service officers that raided his newspaper office in downtown Murmansk confiscated computers and telephones and threatened to shoot him. But the editor of the Arktichesky Obozrevatel (Arctic Observer) has no plans to leave the north Russian city.
June 18, 2024
Ivan Pavlov believes in a new and beautiful Russia and says he will be "on the first flight home" as soon as the Putin regime falls. "We are optimists. Putin is not forever," the well-known human rights lawyer in exile says.
June 04, 2024
Yulia Navalnaya will accept an award on behalf of her late husband.
May 27, 2024
"I consider this label repressive. But I can say for sure that we will continue to work, whatever they call us," says Daria Poryadina, editor of the exile-Russian news outlet SOTA.
May 17, 2024
The Mayor of the Norwegian border town located few kilometers from Russia highlighted unity against totalitarianism and fight for freedom in his speech on Liberation and Veterans Day.
May 08, 2024
41-year-old video journalist Sergei Karelin was arrested on Friday, accused of extremism, allegedly because he had cooperated with Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation FBK.
April 28, 2024
Almost 75 percent of the votes cast in the border town of Kirkenes were for Vladimir Putin, figures from the Russian Election Commission show. In Barentsburg, Svalbard, the number reached 69 percent.
March 18, 2024
"I want to express my sympathy and support to the Russians that continue to dare to work for a different and better Russia," says Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide.
March 18, 2024
The photo of the killed opposition leader is 'extremist material,' a court in the north Russian city decided.
March 15, 2024
"Anyone can become a target regardless of location," says Novaya Gazeta Europa editor Kirill Martynov after Navalny ally Leonid Volkov Tuesday evening was attacked with a hammer and tear gas outside his home in Lithuania.
March 13, 2024
Russia's chess icon Garry Kasparov was Wednesday added to the "terrorists and extremists" list compiled by Putin's regime.
March 06, 2024
On March 6 a city court in Moscow sentenced RusNews journalist Roman Ivanov to seven years in prison for violating the law on fake news about the Russian army.
March 06, 2024
The killing of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny prompted shock and grief among his supporters. Consul General Nikolai Konygin, however, got Navalny’s portrait out of sight when he one day before the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine hailed the country's "heroes".
February 23, 2024
Russian authorities are responsible for Aleksei Navalny's death, the Norwegian Prime Minister makes clear.
February 21, 2024
We knew it was a historic moment, says journalist Elizaveta Vereykina as she in January 2021 reported from the Berlin to Moscow flight in Aleksei Navalny's final hours in freedom.
February 17, 2024
Kremlin critics inside Russia and around the World blame Putin for the death of opposition activist Aleksei Navalny.
February 16, 2024
Russian prison services on Friday reported that the opposition politician died in the remote Arctic prison camp of Kharp.
February 16, 2024
The agreement with the "Defenders of the Fatherland" foundation was signed by Rector Elena Kudryashova with the Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NARFU) in Arkhangelsk.
February 09, 2024

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