To what extent does Novaya Gazeta, the independent Russian daily run by 2021 Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Dmitry Muratov, reflect the reality of life in today’s Russia? Russian documentary filmmaker Vital Mansky visits Muratov to find out.
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has won the Sakharov Prize, a prestigious honor awarded by the European Parliament for human rights defenders. Navalny has targeted Russia's elite with anti-corruption investigations, but is now in prison on charges widely seen as politically motivated.
The Moscow Metro has touted a new facial-recognition payment system as the first mass-scale use of a technology that will bring greater convenience to people's everyday lives. But its launch in Russia has raised concerns about the system's possible misuse for surveillance purposes.
There are some controversial new faces in Russia's State Duma after elections, widely deemed neither free nor fair, filled it once again with Kremlin-connected figures. Among them: Maria Butina, who was convicted of being an unregistered foreign agent for Russia and spent time in a U.S. jail.
Eighty years after the Nazi massacres that left nearly 34,000 Ukrainian Jews dead, Ukraine is still struggling to decide how best to remember the tragedy of Babyn Yar. One private proposal for a memorial center that includes Russian investors has provoked the wrath of some Ukrainians.
Dmitry Muratov, a co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, is chief editor of Novaya gazeta, a Russian newspaper that has repeatedly exposed corruption at the highest levels of government in the decades since its launch.
Russia has recorded a new high for daily deaths from COVID-19 as another wave sweeps across the country and vaccination rates stall. The latest daily death toll, published on September 28, showed 852 new fatalities -- the fourth record high in a month.
Kazakhstan will switch from its current Russian dialing code, +7, to its own national international dialing code, +997, the government said.
Many Russian election observers charge that organized, compulsory, group voting by public employees and military personnel were one of the largest voting violations in Russia's September 17-19, 2021 parliamentary-regional elections. Current Time talked with apparent group voters in downtown Moscow.
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