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18 year-old Russian singer detained by St. Petersburg police for performing anti-Putin song

Eighteen-year-old singer Diana Loginova, also known by her stage name Naoko, has been detained by police in St. Petersburg ...

A Russian student sang protest songs in St. Petersburg. Then she was arrested.

In a rare and almost unthinkable act of defiance in today’s Russia, a small crowd of young people gathered in central St.

Teen street musician jailed for leading anti-Putin song performance in St. Petersburg: report

Diana Loginova faces charges for organizing an unauthorized public gathering and discrediting the Russian military after ...

Hundreds gather for rare anti-Putin demonstration in St Petersburg singing protest songs: ‘The old man clings to his throne’

Hundreds of people gathered in the centre of St Petersburg in a rare moment of protest against Russian president Vladimir ...

Crowds of anti-war Russians demand Putin is overthrown as rare display of public anger against tyrant takes over streets

HUNDREDS of Russians have taken to the streets of St. Petersburg calling for Vladimir Putin to be ousted from the Kremlin. A massive crowd spent the evening chanting anti-war songs and demanding Putin ...
Washington Monthly

Russia Through a Feminist Lens

Julia Ioffe’s much-anticipated memoir and history of Russia offers an original take on America’s long-time adversary ...
CNN

Russia sentences 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after poetic anti-war protest

A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army, including by gluing a quotation on ...