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SOCIETYWiki Wars: Editors and propagandists are fighting for influence over the online encyclopedia’s most controversial entriesNNikita Aronov8 April 2025
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SOCIETY“Pen, paper, and a gun to the head”: How Russia turns Ukrainian POWs and civilians into “terrorists”AAArden Arkman11 March 2025
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SOCIETYBrushing off the signs: five years after the start of COVID-19, the world is still unprepared for a new pandemicEKElia Kabanov4 February 2025
SOCIETYDoves at heart: Sociologists discover most Russians want a ceasefireMikhail Turchenko24 January 2025
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SOCIETYSlaughterhouse Damascus: Inside Sednaya, the Assad regime’s most brutal prisonNNikita Aronov30 December 2024
SOCIETYKids and social media: Why TikTok and Facebook are not as harmful to children's mental health as is widely believedEKElia Kabanov24 December 2024
SOCIETY“The unwilling were tasered or had their papers signed for them”: Russia’s fall conscription drive reaches new levels of brutalityViktoriia Ponomareva24 December 2024
SOCIETY“No water, no gas in the house, humanitarian aid consists solely of canned food”: The growing humanitarian crisis in GazaAGAlla Gavrilova20 December 2024
SOCIETYThe ribbon of merit. How Ukrainian partisans fight the enemy in Russian-occupied territoriesKOKaryna Olykova14 December 2024
SOCIETY“The jihadists are trying to show how progressive they are. But we don’t believe them!”: Syria’s minorities fear the anti-Assad rebels’ riseMAMaria Alexeeva12 December 2024
SOCIETY“Not being able to perform in Russia is a tragedy”: Rock musician Boris Grebenshchikov on life after 2022Lev Gankin29 November 2024
SOCIETY“United in hatred of Khamenei”: Lessons learned from half a century of Iranian opposition in exile NNikita Aronov26 November 2024
SOCIETYDe-FIDE-zation: Russian influence in chess faces challenges beyond sanctionsDenis Bilunov23 November 2024
SOCIETYA fractured rainbow: How the Middle East war split the global LGBTQ communityAGAlla Gavrilova21 November 2024
SOCIETYMultiplication by zero: Russia’s promised childbirth support turns into reproductive pressureMAMaria Alexeeva17 November 2024
SOCIETY“A cheerful guy, honor student, it beats me how he became a terrorist”: Why Dagestan failed to prevent a bloody Islamist attack ASAmir Saidov23 October 2024
SOCIETYThe Kremlin Arena: Russian oligarchs locked in struggle over Finland’s largest stadiumEPElizaveta Pyatnitskaya9 October 2024
SOCIETY“They painted us all as traitors”: Environmental protests in Bashkortostan morph into Russia's largest political trialMAMaria Alexeeva3 October 2024
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