Novaya Gazeta. Europe
October 2026
Founder of Russian propaganda channel detained in Montenegro after posting about evading travel ban
At the moment, the project team is in contact with the Russian Foreign Ministry, which is working to resolve the situation,
Remember: even if you’re under sanctions (like me), even if you have a travel ban (like me), even if you’re heading to a country that has pledged, out of solidarity, to observe that travel ban (like in my case)... there’s a way
We warned that attempts at hybrid influence and destabilisation have dogged Montenegro’s path to Europe every step of the way,
More than 30 killed by Russian strike on bus stop in Ukraine’s Kramatorsk
Traffic lights in the city have been turned off since 30 September; there are few cars on the streets, and Russian drones periodically chase them
He was supposed to quit this Monday. Public transport is dying. The new buses have already been evacuated from the city; what’s left are the old ones that can still run, and the most determined drivers. It’s difficult,
It became impossible to work. For a while we kept driving because passenger buses weren’t being targeted, but now…”
‘On the side of the victims’
Anna, a journalist, and Zainap, a human rights defender, documented war crimes in Chechnya, and time and again they went where others dared not go
They’ve probably been detained,
We were saving her son, and she was saving her own skin,
That boy later apologised to us profusely,
Because nobody will say anything in front of a government official. And then we’ll leave, and those people will be abused even more,
Please come. Look at what’s happening. Do something, tell the world what’s going on here. Our boys are being taken from the villages, our women are taken, they are tortured and abused and thrown into pits,
Fine, I’ll come alone,
Look around: how many journalists do you see who came here and care what happens to these people?”
Imagine: for four or five hours she sits and writes down these stories, and I’m sitting right next to her the whole time, never leaving, watching her face,
Call Novaya Gazeta right now and tell them Anna’s been detained!”
Anna, I’m not going anywhere with him, and I’m not taking you. Don’t even think about it,
Mother Russia
Russians held in US immigration detention to launch hunger strike over poor conditions and mistreatment
When he came to and asked permission to lie down because of dizziness and weakness, immigration officers took him to an empty concrete room with a steel toilet and no mattress and kept him there for several hours.Another detainee who went to see a psychologist was stripped, given a hospital gown and put for three days in a concrete room with the light on constantly, where he had to sleep on the floor
Anna Politkovskaya Award goes to Ukrainian and Russian women journalists imprisoned by Russia
She and her husband were abducted in Melitopol in 2023
‘We just need to tough it out’
With the war now well into its fifth year, another wave is gathering
Russia sentences 68-year-old Ukrainian citizen to 14 years in prison on treason charges
His lawyer said he made no attempt to hide and appeared when summoned by the Federal Security Service (FSB).Court materials also state that Dobrovolsky has serious “speech and cognitive impairments”
September 2026
Russia plotted to assassinate Garry Kasparov and former lawmaker Ilya Ponomarev in US, Spanish media reports
Estonia alleges fire at Tallinn robotics plant was Russian arson attack
Siberian police plied businessman with vodka and tried to force him into army contract, family alleges
Officers gave him and another man detained at the same apartment food and vodka
A starving human shield
The Ukrainian military administration sits across the front in liberated Kherson, while the collaborationist authorities are 70 kilometres away in occupied Skadovsk
What really stings is that the authorities got people out of besieged Mariupol through an official corridor, and they only remembered us now,
If they open the road to Radensk, there will be food,
We had 300 grams of buckwheat, 200 grams of spaghetti and two cans of stewed meat left,
The staff have asked residents to donate any grain at all so they can make porridge for the people lying here without limbs,
When she... The men weigh 50 kilos at most,
Unfortunately, the Russian Federation does not agree to an evacuation of the civilian population and refuses to open a green corridor. It rejects all our proposals and initiatives,
Campaign manager from Russia’s anti-war party says she was assaulted by Ukraine war veterans
Kazakhstan court rejects asylum appeal of former Navalny volunteer, clearing way for extradition to Russia
CIA warned Italy, Spain and France of possible Russian drone attacks, Spanish media reports
Czech Republic expels Russian propagandists who came to film ‘documentary series’ on Europe
Czech police detained and questioned two Russian nationals, Vitaly Chashchukhin and Igor Dolmatov, who had traveled from Germany to film a “documentary series” for the pro-Kremlin propaganda outlet Rybar, the Czech outlet Seznam Zprávy reported
‘The ritual is complete’
The Duma election isn’t some milestone, or a turning point, or a ‘barometer,’ as some analysts have called it,... It’s simply part of the ritual, and that ritual is now complete,
So everyone except Yabloko played by the system's current rules,
The event is meaningless in terms of any real political process, but it’s part of the ritual of power,
That’s a bluff too, of course, because on matters of substance New People are no different from any of the other Kremlin parties,
Russian man given 14 days in jail after writing ‘Putin is a dickhead’ on election ballot
Russia's ruling party on track to keep supermajority in election marked by hundreds of reported violations
Ukraine targets Moscow with more than 1,600 drones on final day of Russian elections
More than 1,600 drones reportedly targeted at the capital region in under 24 hours
Russian State Duma candidate goes missing after forged document used to pull her observers from polling stations
Registered abortions in Russia have fallen fourfold over 15 years, report finds
‘A kind of schizophrenia’
Still, with hundreds of seats formally up for grabs this weekend, the show must go on: authorities have held televised debates and parties have mounted elaborate campaigns to give the appearance of competition
A good number of election ‘participants’ are simply going through the motions, or running as spoiler candidates with no interest in drawing too much attention,
You often write ‘our elephant’ in the comments,
US charges Russian FSB officer, former colonel, and three others with plotting to kill dissidents abroad
US federal prosecutors have announced charges against five people for plotting to assassinate Russian dissidents in the United States and Europe, and to carry out sabotage attacks in countries supporting Ukraine, in a campaign that the Justice Department says began in 2024 or earlier
Leader of Russia’s anti-war party attacks exiled opposition’s voting strategy: ‘They’re sitting abroad, manipulating you’
[The... They’re] proposing that we go along again like sheep to their tune, and vote for the very people who have caused deaths in Russia and Ukraine,