Current State of Russia – Holod Magazine

Q&A

“This is the last Russian war”

Historian Alexander Etkind recently published a book on how Russia is fighting a war against the contemporary world. Holod has spoken to him about how Russia is waging that war, and when it is going to end

Maksim Zagovora

01.06.2023

Opinion

“But you’re one of us!” No, I’m not

Dankhayaa Khovalyg believes that her native Republic of Tyva is de-facto a colony in Russia rather than an equal member of the federation. Here’s why.

Dankhayaa Khovalyg

07.06.2023

Magazine

Russian gays are murdered in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, just as in Chechnya

If you cannot believe in it, read these three stories

24.05.2023

Magazine

The most Slavic among the Slavs

Three decades ago, Russian soldiers invaded a newly independent state to “protect” the Russian-speaking population: it happened in Transnistria, a region of Moldova. With that war still fresh in many Transnistrians’ memories, they’re now grappling with the effects of the war raging in neighboring Ukraine

Olesia Ostapchuk

04.05.2023

Magazine

Mobilization in Russia: selling cows to buy military gear

A mobilized soldier ended up in prison for assaulting a superior; now he wants his family to get him to join the Wagner PMC so he could escape prison by fighting against Ukrainians.

Holod

24.04.2023

Magazine

My Life for the Party

Mary Reed, an American, arrived in the Soviet Union in 1927. In the land of her dreams, she found love but lost her freedom.

28.03.2023

Magazine

Negotiator with the Taliban and prototype for one of Nicolas Cage’s characters

Viktor Bout, Russian citizen sentenced to prison in the U.S., who was exchanged for WNBA star Brittney Griner.

Holod

30.07.2022

Magazine

Airborne Infection

Vladimir Solovyov is a man of many professions. He studied engineering and economics, taught physics at a high school, ran a variety of successful businesses, and hosted Russia’s most popular talk shows of the 2000s. Today he is the arch-warmonger of the Russian state media.

Olesia Ostapchuk

21.03.2023

war in ukraine

Magazine: war crimes

Leave Your Bike, Run to the River

The story of a woman killed in Bucha told by her daughters, who learned about her death from news reports featuring the photo of a “woman with red nail polish”

Holod

25.07.2022

Magazine

How Russia steals Ukrainian children and subjects them to “reeducation”

Main facts from the TV Rain report

Julia Selikhova

24.03.2023

Magazine: mariupol

The Heart of the War

Having spent two months beneath Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol under constant shelling and bombing, surviving civilians tell their stories

Holod

29.07.2022

Magazine

“It is a counterfeit”, “It was a gift” and other excuses

Five examples of Russian officials trying to justify their luxurious possessions

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Magazine

You’re turning your daughter into a Russia-hating monster

Arguments, denunciations and threats: how Russians argue over the war in group chats for neighbors and schoolkids’ parents.

Magazine

Russian women are flocking to Argentina to give birth. Here’s why

Stories of the Russian women who come to Argentina to give birth to “anchor babies”

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