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Inside-net: Russia is dismantling free internet connections

Other autocracies are taking note

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7 October 2025

‘Our mission is to smother negativity with positivity!’: Why Russians enjoy traveling to North Korea

All tour programs are approved at the North Korean government level

Written by Baikal People Journal

13 March 2025

Shutting down the net: The growing threat of Russian internet censorship

By the end of 2023, over 92 percent of Russian population used the internet. The government has other plans for them now.

Written by Daria Dergacheva

22 January 2025

From Russia to the EU: The high stakes of Meta’s content moderation shift

The solution is to support legacy media rooted in fact-checking

Written by Daria Dergacheva

16 January 2025

Russian LGBTQ+ activist attended the Pride march in Moldova

‘The police came to protect us. It's incredible,’ activist wrote on social media

Written by Daria Dergacheva

25 June 2024

Exiled Russian journalist scores interview with Moldovan president

Why did Maia Sandy think it was a good idea?

Written by Daria Dergacheva

16 May 2024

Lotteries, dressed-up figures, and other peculiar entertainment at Putin's sham elections

Entertainment that Russian authorities used to attract people to so-called 'elections'

Written by Daria Dergacheva

18 March 2024

Yulia Navalnaya against Vladimir Putin

Some hope she is the new Russian opposition leader

Written by Daria Dergacheva

8 March 2024

Russian series on Perestroika-era youth gangs breaks popularity records, defying attempts to ban it

The series tells the story of youth street gangs in late 1980s

Written by Russia Post, Daria Dergacheva

22 January 2024

Russian LGBTQ+ asylum seeker dies outside Dutch refugee camp

This is not the first death of an LGBTQ+ refugee in the Netherlands

Written by Alena Moricheva

12 December 2023

Museum of Russian anti-war street art opens online

The exhibition presents 471 works from 48 cities

Written by Alena Moricheva

6 December 2023

Police immediately raids LGBTQ+ clubs in Moscow after Russia bans ‘International LGBTQ+ movement’

LGBTQ+ activists that help people to move ask for help

Written by Daria Dergacheva

5 December 2023

Why some parents are accused of abandoning their disabled children in special schools in Nigeria

Often, children with disabilities are neglected

Written by Guest Contributor

18 November 2023

Casual racism in Russia's everyday life: ‘Even though you are Buryat, you are still one of us’

Buryats have to deal with a number of offensive stereotypes

Written by Baikal People Journal, Anastasia Pestova

2 November 2023

Yelena Trifonova: ‘In Siberia, calling someone “Muscovite” is almost an insult’

Publisher of independent regional opposition media Baikal People spoke with Global Voices

Written by Daria Dergacheva, Baikal People Journal

2 November 2023

Vanishing memory: Commemorative plaques to victims of Soviet era disappear in Russia amid war and new repressions

The grassroots initiative started almost 10 years ago to heal historical wounds

Written by Alena Moricheva

25 October 2023

The number of Indigenous people of Sakhalin island in Russia is drastically decreasing

Documentary showing the life of Sakhalin's indigenous peoples

Written by Daria Dergacheva

19 October 2023

Documentary about dying villages in Sakhalin, former territory of Japan in Russia, gets over million views

Although lawmakers want to eliminate small villages, people do not leave

Written by Daria Dergacheva

10 October 2023

How Russians fought Putinism: A documentary

There were numerous protests in Russia through the years

Written by Daria Dergacheva

9 October 2023

In Russia, it's the state against the internet

Interview with Putin's critic, head of NGO Internet protection society

Written by Russia Post, Daria Dergacheva

15 September 2023

‘Please hate the terrorist state’: Trans people and allies speak up against a transphobic law in Russia

Activists post statements from trans people in response to repressive ban on gender transitioning

Written by Daria Dergacheva

17 July 2023

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