Novaya Gazeta. Europe
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,
Kremlin aide warns Polish statehood would ‘cease to exist within two or three days’ in war with Russia
‘Russians are killing children in Ukraine!’
It considered her three prior convictions under the same chapter of the Administrative Offences Code an aggravating circumstance
Russia charges anti-war rapper Noize MC with ‘publicly justifying terrorism’
Russia detains former British Embassy guard on treason charges, a day after UK charges man over alleged Russian sabotage plot
The agency released a video of the detained man in which he repeats the account the FSB has given
Germany could share data on draft-age Ukrainian men with Kyiv, foreign minister suggests
He noted that “the overwhelming majority of the German population supports our policy on Ukraine.”Wadephul’s comments echo a similar call from Markus Söder, leader of the Christian Social Union party, made in an interview with the Rheinische Post
We know who lives here. For example, who receives social benefits or who is registered here,
Putin assured Trump that Russia is not planning to attack Europe, Kremlin aide says
Given the speculation about Russia supposedly having hostile intentions toward European states, it was emphasised that we have no aggressive plans whatsoever toward Europe,... Putin
Russian authorities add Novaya Gazeta to ‘foreign agents’ registry
They include journalist Elena Milashina, former editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov, Yabloko party chairman Nikolai Rybakov, politician Lev Shlosberg, and others.Most of the restrictions imposed on “foreign agents” do not apply to “participants”
‘Even a strong case can fall apart’
The reform had been in the works for nearly two decades, effectively since the bloc took its modern shape following eastward enlargement and the 2009 Treaty of Lisbon
The irony is that if just 42 more persecuted Russians had been granted asylum in EU countries last year, Russia would have climbed out of the ‘grey zone’ and wouldn’t have fallen under the restriction on 12 June... Doing this arithmetic, I learned a lot — for one thing, that Eurostat’s database is a nightmare,
My rough average for 2025 came out to 19.74%,