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Vladimir Putin has often accused the West of “cancelling” Russian culture since 2022. But it is precisely this idea of a Russophobic West that films such as Anora, with their depiction of charismatic, multifaceted Russians, undermine. 🧵
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People saying goodbye to Alexey Navalny at his grave at the Borisovsky cemetery in Moscow. Police officers present at the site are screaming at people, urging them to move quicker. 📹: Novaya Europe
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❗️Novaya Gazeta Europe is brought to you by independent Russian reporters who continue their work despite Putin’s crackdown on independent media outlets.
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Alexey Navalny’s daughter Daria pays tribute to her late father. “Dad, you were an example for many across the globe. Your optimism and contagious, sincere smile. Your curiosity and thirst for knowledge. Your incredible ability to find common ground with anyone. Your wit. Your
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Russian military research facility in Tver on fire. Russia’s Ministry of Defence Aerospace Forces research facility caught on fire today at noon. At least two people died in the flames, and around 30 were wounded, according to TASS. video was published on local vk page
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People keep coming to the cemetery and throwing flowers at Alexey Navalny’s grave for the third day in a row. The grave is no longer visible due to the amount of flowers. 📷: moloko news
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❗️Novaya Gazeta reporter Elena Milashina, who was brutally attacked yesterday in Chechnya, has been diagnosed with a closed brain injury, up to 14 carpal bone fractures and multiple bruises. She is now at a hospital in Moscow. Photos: Anna Artemyeva / Novaya Gazeta
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The flag of Finland has been hoisted before the NATO headquarters in Brussels as the country officially joined the Alliance earlier today. Video: Novaya Gazeta Europe
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“We’re waiting for you in the Hague!”. Some of our readers who spoiled their presidential election ballot on purpose have shared the photos with us. We’re posting the best ones. 🧵1/6
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The line of people wanting to say goodbye to Alexey Navalny is over a kilometre long. 📹: Novaya Gazeta Europe
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A long line of people is chanting “Navalny!” as Navalny’s burial is close to commencing. 📹: Navalny’s team
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We are here to tell you about what is happening in our country. Now, you can read news and stories free of censorship, written by professionals who share the values and standards of Novaya Gazeta. Our content is available in English and Russian on Twitter and other platforms.
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Veteran Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed on this day 18 years ago. 💔
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Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky, best known for his novel Metro 2033, was charged with spreading “fake news” about the Russian army for speaking out against the Ukraine war. He is currently being tried in absentia. Here’s what the writer had to say about his charges:
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American diplomats have arrived. A representative of the US Embassy told Novaya Europe that “almost all” high-ranking American diplomats would attend the funeral service for Alexey Navalny. 📹: Novaya Gazeta Europe
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“Thank you for your son.” People are expressing their condolences to Alexey Navalny’s parents, Lyudmila and Anatoly, upon their exit from the church where the politician’s funeral took place. 📹: RusNews
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British Ambassador to Russia Nigel Casey has shared a picture of laying flowers to Moscow’s Solovetsky Stone, a monument dedicated to the victims of Soviet political repression, to commemorate Alexey Navalny.
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Novaya Gazeta Europe has contacted the relatives of a conscript from the Moskva cruiser who has gone missing. Nikita Syromyasov, a 20 year old young man from Sverdlovsk Oblast, used to be a part of the ship’s crew.
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⚡️⚡️NATO General Secretary: Finland to join NATO tomorrow . "It's a historical week. Tomorrow we will welcome Finland as the 31st member of NATO," Jens Stoltenberg announced, as per a newsperson for Novaya-Europe . Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Memorial to Alexey Navalny in Novosibirsk. The paper says “A human is mortal. An idea is not.”. 📷: Social media
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Women gathered in front of the Russian embassy in Tallinn to draw attention to the sexual violence of Russian soldiers against Ukrainian women and children. Photo: petri kajander / Twitter
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“Putin killed him but he didn’t break him”, reads the banner hung up in the trees near the Borisovsky cemetery where Alexey Navalny was laid to rest on Friday. 📹: RusNews
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Noon against Putin: Yulia Navalnaya has arrived at the protest in Berlin. Thousands have gathered in the centre of Berlin to demonstrate their opposition to the Russian presidential election. Navalnaya was met with ovations, people are hugging and thanking her. 📹: TV Rain
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People standing in line to say goodbye to Alexey Navalny at the Borisovsky cemetery in Moscow for the ninth day in a row. 📷: Novaya Europe
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⚡Police detain and beat up people at an anti-war rally in Saint Petersburg. They are using truncheons and stun guns
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Over 280 priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) demanded that Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, be brought to ecclesiastical court. Photo: wikipedia
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People throwing flowers at Alexey Navalny’s hearse. 📹: Media outlet 7x7
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“When will you finally die and Ukrainian children will no longer be killed?” 5/6
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“Murderer, you will never win. Glory to Ukraine!!! Glory to the Armed Forces of Ukraine” 2/6
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❗️ Bloomberg has confirmed that Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza is set to be released as part of the prisoner exchange between Russia and the West.
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The queue of people wishing to say goodbye to Navalny is nearly two kilometres long, Novaya Europe reports from the scene as people are chanting “We won’t forget”, “We won’t forgive” and “Heroes never die”. 📹: Novaya Gazeta Europe
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A court in Moscow sentenced a Russian nurse to eight years in prison for disseminating what it deemed to have been “fake news” about the army. ⤵️
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People continue leaving flowers on Alexey Navalny’s grave for the fourth day in a row. “We will win. Rest easy. Russia will be free,” the sign reads. 📷: Mediazona
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People continue bringing flowers and signs to Alexey Navalny’s grave in Moscow almost two months after the Russian politician’s murder. 📹: RusNews
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Soyuzmultfilm, Russia’s oldest animation studio, has restricted access to their 1973 animation film called ‘The Treasures of the Sunken Ships’ on its YouTube channel. In the film, a submarine called ‘The Neptune’ finds the debris of Nazi destroyer ship with a ‘Z’ symbol on board
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People are bringing flowers to honour Alexey Navalny in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. 📹: SOTA
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“Who’s next?” says the banner that a young woman is holding at a solo protest in the Russian city of Novosibirsk following the news of Alexey Navalny’s death. 📷: Sibirmedia
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Alexey Navalny has been laid to rest. 📷: Ivan Zhdanov
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US Ambassador to Russia Lynne M. Tracy lays flowers to honour Navalny. “Today at the Solovetsky Stone we mourn the passing of Alexey Navalny and all other victims of political repression in Russia. Our hearts go out to his family, friends and supporters. His strength is an
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A court in Russia’s Leningrad region sentenced a St. Petersburg couple to over three years in prison on Thursday for “inciting terrorism” after finding that they had left notes with anti-war messages on them in a local supermarket. 📹⤵️
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People continue to pay their respects to Alexey Navalny at the Borisovsky cemetery in Moscow. The line towards the cemetery on Sunday stretches for 300-400 metres. A police van and two police vehicles are on standby. 📹: exclusively for Novaya Europe
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“Not only do I not repent any of these deeds, but I am also proud.” The final plea of Vladimir Kara-Murza who is facing 25 years in prison over charges of treason, “fake news”, and working for an “undesirable organisation”. Read his speech:
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Wearing a yellow jacket and posing in front of a blue background of sky and sea was cause enough for someone to report Antonida Smolina, a resident of northwestern Russia’s city of Vologda. Police visited Smolina at home after someone reported an “enemy symbol” in a picture she
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The Russian authorities are requesting a six-year prison sentence for a paediatrician accused of criticising the war in Ukraine during a private appointment with a patient and his mother. ⤵️
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“Putin is a pathetic, wretched coward”. Our readers have shared their spoilt ballots from the Russian presidential election and we’re sharing them with you. 🧵1/10
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Yulia Navalnaya has recorded a video message, saying that she will continue her murdered husband’s work. She called upon Alexey Navalny’s supporters to fight together with her. “Keep fighting and do not give up. I’m not afraid, and neither should you be,” she said.
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People are seen lining up to vote around noon in Moscow. Video: Novaya Gazeta Europe
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“We will never wash off this blood”: activists Natalya Perova and Lyudmila Annenkova picket in front of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Photo by SOTA
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A day after the“LGBT propaganda” law was passed in the country, Georgia’s best known transgender woman was brutally murdered, underscoring the huge amount of damage the legislation is likely to wreak on queer lives in the South Caucasus nation. 🧵
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Ukraine's army has entered Kherson, the locals don't hesitate to greet the troops
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🔴The first picture of Alexey Navalny’s funeral from inside the church. 📷: Navalny’s team
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Dutch Ambassador to Russia Gilles Beschoor Plug lays flowers to honour Alexey Navalny in Moscow. 📷: GillesBP / Twitter
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In New York the auction where editor-in-chief of “Novaya Gazeta” Dmitry Muratov plans to sell his Nobel Peace prize is about to begin. All profits from the sale will support UNICEF's humanitarian response for Ukrainian refugees.
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“We cannot give up.” Jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza called on Russians to not give up following the news of Alexey Navalny’s murder. Watch his speech with English subtitles. ⬇️
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X has suspended Yulia Navalnaya’s account, citing violations of the platform’s rules.
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6/6 .You can read more about Russian citizens’ protest vote tactics in our text here: .
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❗️Russia has essentially banned professional journalism. The Russian government has “cancelled” us right when Russian citizens and the whole world need us the most.
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Alexey Navalny’s mother Lyudmila has publicly called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to hand over her son’s body. Watch her appeal with English subtitles. ⬇️
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The makeshift memorial to Alexey Navalny has been restored in Moscow. People have been bringing new flowers to the Solovetsky Stone, a memorial dedicated to the victims of Soviet repression, throughout the day. In the early hours of Saturday, unknown men in civilian clothes
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“We have to rise up.”. We asked one of the thousands of people who stood in line to say farewell to Alexey Navalny on Friday why she chose to come to the cemetery despite the risks. Here is what she said ⬇️
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Dual US-Russian citizen sentenced to 12 years in prison for €46 donation to Ukrainian charity. A court in the city of Yekaterinburg in Russia’s Ural region has sentenced dual US-Russian citizen Ksenia Karelina to 12 years in a penal colony and fined her 300,000 rubles (€3,000)
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Moscow police detain a woman who tried to lay a piece of paper with “Борись!” written on it at Boris Nemtsov’s makeshift memorial. “Борись!” means “Fight!” in English, and is also pronounced in Russian almost the same way as Boris, Nemtsov’s first name. Video: @smirusnews
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Noon against Putin in Helsinki. The Noon Against Putin campaign is a way of showing Russian citizens’ opposition to the regime in the absence of any real alternative candidates by arriving to vote at noon local time on Sunday 17 March. 📹, 📷: by Novaya Europe reader
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Olga Nazarenko, a 48-year-old Russian political activist, died last week in hospital after a two-week battle to save her life. Doctors say the injuries she suffered suggested a severe beating and falling from a great height. The cause of her injuries remains unclear. 🧵(1/6)
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The move means that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Commissioner for children’s rights Maria Lvova-Belova will not be able to enter the country as Armenian authorities will be required to detain them.
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Oleg Navalny says goodbye to his brother Alexey in a farewell message. “Rest easy, brother, and don’t you worry about anything,” Oleg wrote in an Instagram post. 📷: Oleg Navalny / Instagram
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Watch Yulia Navalnaya's message to her late husband Alexey’s supporters and all Russians who oppose the war and Putin’s brutal regime.
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Noon against Putin: about 800 people seen standing in a queue to demonstrate their opposition to Putin’s regime in Bern, Switzerland. 📹: Novaya Gazeta Europe
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On the day of Alexey Navalny’s funeral in Moscow, we are republishing a letter from jailed opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza to Novaya Gazeta Baltic. 1/5 🧵
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Even Russian children can find themselves in hot water for seeming to oppose the war in Ukraine. Novaya Gazeta Europe has collected five stories of children whose teachers, classmates, or neighbours informed on them. (1/4)
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Russians are lining up near the Russian embassy in Istanbul to vote at noon. Video: Mariam Pesvianidze
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People gathered near the church are chanting “Navalny” as Navalny's coffin is being taken into the church. “He wasn’t scared, and neither are we,” the people are heard chanting. 📹: Ivan Zhdanov
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“The situation is very difficult, critical,” wrote Arseny Turbin, one of Russia’s youngest political prisoners, to his mother in October after his cellmate punched him while he was in bed and then proceeded to force his head into the toilet bowl. 🧵
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Fifteen-year-old Arseny Turbin was sentenced to five years in prison for terrorism. Instead of going to high school, he now finds himself in prison, and when his friends go on to higher education, he’ll still have three years of his sentence left to serve. 🧵
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Alexey Navalny’s mother Lyudmila saying goodbye to her son during today’s burial. 📷: EPA-EFE/SERGEI ILNITSKY
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People continue leaving flowers and notes at Alexey Navalny’s grave for the fifth day in a row. 📷: Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Saint Petersburg: police detain a man for laying flowers at the monument to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko on the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine. 1/3.Photo: Andrey Bok for Fontanka
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Twenty two of the world’s most celebrated classical musicians have signed a tribute to Russian pianist Pavel Kushnir, who died on hunger strike last month while in pretrial detention awaiting trial for his criticism of Russia’s war in Ukraine. 📹⤵️
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Saint Petersburg: 77-year-old artist Elena Osipova, known as “Saint Petersburg’s conscience”, is protesting the war on the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: Astra
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EXCLUSIVE: The illness of Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov is a source of concern for the Kremlin, which is now forced to decide how to maintain stability once the brutal Chechen dictator is no more. ⤵️. THREAD 1/8 🧵
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The roof of the building was partially destroyed. Some people had to jump out of the windows, says an undisclosed source within the emergency services. Many survivors have been injured and intoxicated.
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“I don’t know how to live without you but I’ll try to do so in a way that makes you up there happy for me, and proud. I don’t know if I’ll manage to but I’ll try,” Alexey Navalny’s widow Yulia wrote in a new tweet, adding that they would “definitely see each other again one day”.
Лёша, спасибо тебе за 26 лет абсолютного счастья. Да, даже за три последних года счастья. За любовь, за то, что всегда поддерживал, за то, что смешил даже из тюрьмы, за то что ты обо мне всегда думал. Я не знаю, как жить без тебя, но я постараюсь так, чтобы ты там, наверху,
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Violent crime committed in the occupied territories of Ukraine by Russian soldiers against their own comrades has skyrocketed: in 2023 alone, 190 cases went to trial, though the actual number of incidents is likely much higher. DATA INVESTIGATION 🧵
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On the day of Alexey Navalny’s death, EU Ambassador to Russia Roland Galharague lays flowers to the Solovetsky Stone — the monument dedicated to the victims of Soviet political repressions. 📷: EU in Russia
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The line of people waiting entry into the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Quench My Sorrows where the funeral service for Alexey Navalny will take place in two and a half hours. 📹: SOTAvision
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Ten years ago, the lives previously known to Silene, Anton, Robbert and thousands of others like them suddenly came to an end and new ones began — ones marked by a tragedy they would never forget, never break free from, and that they would be forced to live with forever. 🧵
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In a message on the day of inauguration, Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexey Navalny, said that Russia is “being ruled by a liar, thief and murderer”, before pledging to continue fighting again Vladimir Putin’s regime and calling on others to join her. ⤵️
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At least 22 million fake votes cast for Putin in presidential election. Read more here:
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❗️ Good news, everyone! ❗️. A Russian man who was jailed for anti-war posts he made on social media was released from prison on Tuesday after completing his sentence. Alexey Moskalyov was met by his teenage daughter Maria upon his release. ⤵️
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Boris Nadezhdin has arrived at Alexey Navalny’s funeral. He called Navalny “a symbol of the era” and expressed hope that “everything will be alright in the end”. “And Russia will become peaceful and free, just as Alexey dreamt of”.
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🐱Last month Russia experienced a rare moment of unity over the death of a pet cat that was thrown off a train in freezing weather. Why is Russian society so eager to mobilise against animal cruelty? 🧵(1/4)
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused profound damage to Ukrainian cultural heritage, with at least 295 cultural sites damaged since Feb 2022 according to UNESCO. The following are some of the greatest losses to the country’s architectural heritage since the war began. 1/6
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Noon against Putin: several hundreds of people are lining up near the Russian Embassy in Paris. 📷, 📹: exclusively for Novaya Europe
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Novaya Gazeta reporter Elena Milashina after the attack. Photo: Crew Against Torture
⚡️Novaya Gazeta reporter Elena Milashina and attorney Alexander Nemov have been attacked in Russia’s Chechnya, Crew Against Torture reports.
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The police forced her to remove the paper from the makeshift memorial. It is unknown where she had been taken next.
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Eiffel Tower lit up in Ukrainian flag colours in support of Ukraine as 24 February marks one year since Russia’s invasion began. The ceremony was attended by the Ukrainian ambassador and Paris mayor (left on footage). Video: Yuri Safronov / exclusively for Novaya-Europe
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People are bringing ballots and flowers to Alexey Navalny’s grave on the last day of the Russian presidential election. 📷: Sotavision
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Here is what the dried up Kakhovka Reservoir in Ukraine's Kherson region looks like now after the collapse of the Kakhovka Dam. Photo: @most_ks_ua
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Nokia is pulling out of the Russian market . Yesterday Ericsson has announced plans to suspend business in Russia.
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