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Confession

“We were told we were developing antidotes”: The inner workings of the St. Petersburg lab where Novichok was tested

Confession

“In Russia, you will atone for your guilt before Putin”: Stories of three Russians deported from the United States

Confession

“Our people poisoned Navalny”: Former FSB officer on surveilling opposition figures and running black ops in Russia and Ukraine

SOCIETY

“We were flying with paper maps”: The state of Russia’s civil aviation under sanctions

Investigations

“They pointed at some woman and said I’d been caught red-handed”: How Chechen security services honeytrap men into going to war

Confession

“If a colonel couldn’t do anything, what could I do?”: A Belarusian border guard’s confession

SOCIETY

“Still no gills!”: Despite oil spills, Russia’s Black Sea beach season quietly opens

Confession

“We ditched our uniforms and hid in a swamp”: Chechen POWs from “Akhmat” share their accounts from Kursk

SOCIETY

“When it’s -20°C outside, you have to work for food”: Russian workhouses enslave the needy while owners make millions

POLITICS

Lost in translation: How African migrants are tricked and threatened into Russian military service

POLITICS

Officers without borders: FSB orchestrates influx of refugees into Finland

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“We were told we were developing antidotes”: The inner workings of the St. Petersburg lab where Novichok was tested

“In Russia, you will atone for your guilt before Putin”: Stories of three Russians deported from the United States

“Our people poisoned Navalny”: Former FSB officer on surveilling opposition figures and running black ops in Russia and Ukraine

“We were flying with paper maps”: The state of Russia’s civil aviation under sanctions

“They pointed at some woman and said I’d been caught red-handed”: How Chechen security services honeytrap men into going to war

“If a colonel couldn’t do anything, what could I do?”: A Belarusian border guard’s confession

“Still no gills!”: Despite oil spills, Russia’s Black Sea beach season quietly opens

“We ditched our uniforms and hid in a swamp”: Chechen POWs from “Akhmat” share their accounts from Kursk

“When it’s -20°C outside, you have to work for food”: Russian workhouses enslave the needy while owners make millions

Lost in translation: How African migrants are tricked and threatened into Russian military service

Officers without borders: FSB orchestrates influx of refugees into Finland

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