Artist, Moscow / Художник, Москва.
My boyfriend woke me in the morning and said “the war has begun”. I began to sob out loud before I was even fully awake. It was clear to...
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- Oct 7, 2022
- 3 min
Real Estate Business Owner, St Petersburg/Собственница бизнеса в сфере недвижимости, Санкт Петербург
I work with people every day - purchases, sales, rentals. I travel around the city all the time, by car and on foot. By the traffic, by...
- Oct 3, 2022
- 3 min
Letter from Moscow via Sergei Parkomenko/ Письмо от друга российского журналиста Сергея Пархоменко
Post from Sergei Pakhomenko's Telegram Channel 27th September 2022 I got this message from an old friend. I’ve known him since he was...
- Sep 30, 2022
- 4 min
Digest of political repressions in Russia, including against clergy, since the start of the war.
For the first time WAW is publishing a digest of acts of political repression in the Russian Federation since the beginning of the war....
- Sep 28, 2022
- 9 min
Interview: Igor Kalyapin, Russian human rights activist/ Российский правозащитник Игорь Каляпин
“A Russian prison – a place that robs you of any future,” Igor Kalyapin, Russian human rights activist, on the recruitment of prisoners...
- Sep 26, 2022
- 6 min
Correspondent at a European news agency, 60 / Корреспондент одного из европейских информагентств, 60
As a journalist, I understood that the stakes were high. The Kremlin is playing all in. I sensed the aggravated crisis. Yet I never...
- Sep 26, 2022
- 1 min
Услышанное: «Когда Путин умрет, я пойду в бар и всем налью за свой счет»
Наш корреспондент подслушал и записал услышанные им обрывки фраз и диалогов жителей Москвы о войне, Путине, мобилизации и текущей...
- Sep 21, 2022
- 4 min
"Referendum" at gunpoint’ /Референдум" под дулом автомата
Illustration - Yuri Pogorelov / Иллюстрация Юрий Погорелов. In a frenzied panic due to military failure on the battlefield, and unable...
- Sep 20, 2022
- 12 min
Do Not Make Yourself an Idol / Не Сотвори себе кумира
Nikita Krivoshein on the Russian Orthodox Church’s position on the war in Ukraine. Since the early 1980s, many followers of the Moscow...
- Sep 16, 2022
- 5 min
I feel absolutely powerless / Я чувствую абсолютное бессилие.
From Russian journalist Roman Super's telegram channel. 5th September 2022. Guilt eats me up every day. Each day I think about something...
- Sep 13, 2022
- 9 min
Moscow videographer, 30 yrs old / Видеограф из Москвы, 30 лет
As soon as this all began on February 24th, I felt sincerely and acutely responsible for what was happening. My wife felt the same way....
- Sep 9, 2022
- 3 min
Volunteer helping Ukrainian refugees, Russia/ Волонтёр, Россия.
From Telegram Channel created by Russian journalist Roman Super. Hello Roman. I am a volunteer. Assisting refugees became my way to...
- Sep 9, 2022
- 2 min
Новая Рубрика - Услышанное: «А мой дед всё ждёт триумф Путина-освободителя»
После 24 февраля люди в России, если и говорят друг с другом в общественных местах, то больше вполголоса и полунамеками, опасаясь что...
- Sep 6, 2022
- 5 min
Artist. Moscow. 29 years / Художник. Москва. 29 лет
Despite the fact that I am a pacifist, I would like to volunteer for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Sometimes you just want to go to war....
- Sep 1, 2022
- 9 min
Russian emigre, writer, translator, Paris /Потомок «первой волны» русской эмиграции, писатель, Париж
WAW talked to Nikita Igorevich Krivoshein, a French Orthodox writer and translator, descendant of the “first wave” Russian emigration....
- Aug 29, 2022
- 4 min
Filmmaker, St. Petersburg, relocated to Kyiv, 80 y.o./Кинематографист, СПБ, релоцировался в Киев,80.
I lived in the USSR for fifty years of my long life. Thirty more - in the Russian Federation. Surely I know this country? Of course, like...
- Aug 22, 2022
- 4 min
IT Specialist, Relocated to Tbilisi / Специалист в сфере IT. Релоцировался в Тбилиси
Even before the start of the war, I followed the news, but I hoped that all this was a bluff, that everything would calm down soon, that...
- Aug 16, 2022
- 6 min
Urban researcher, 30s. Relocated to EU Pt.2 / Урбанист-исследователь, релоцировался в ЕС, 30-40 Ч.2
Part 2. What irritates me most about this personage, who has taken all of Russia hostage - if you carefully follow the timelines of his...
- Aug 14, 2022
- 5 min
Urban researcher, 30s. Relocated to EU Pt.1/ Урбанист-исследователь, релоцировался в ЕС, 30–40 Ч.1
Part 1 I did not celebrate the New Year holidays before the war, on the eve of the arrival of 2022, as I was ill. All day on December 31,...
- Aug 4, 2022
- 1 min
Russia - a huge digital concentration camp / Россия — огромный цифровой концлагерь
Illustration Yuri Pogorelov / Иллюстрация Юрий Погорелов Russia today is a huge digital concentration camp for 140 million people The...
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