Today marks one year since WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich was detained by Russia on March 29, 2023. #istandwithevan

Free Evan!

One terrible year. ‘He would want to be doing what he was doing before his detention which was telling the story of wartime Russia to the wider world’. With thanks to Polina Ivanova and Pjotr Sauer #FreeEvan

A huge attack has rocked a concert venue, Crocus City Hall, on the outskirts of Moscow this evening.

Gunmen roamed the building, shooting point-blank at concert goers. The massive 6,200-seater venue is now engulfed in flames.

The latest,with max seddon: ft.com/content/c1f0ee…

Voto in #Russia : 'Limitazioni rigide, non la possiamo chiamare 'guerra': è un equilibrio delicato'.
kate de pury
Covering Russian elections: 'We have limitations, can't call it a 'war': it's a delicate balance, every story is different'.
Kate De Pury, head #EBU  Moscow #InMezzora

A lonely radio nerd. A poet. Vladimir Putin's crackdown sweeps up ordinary Russians (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/c102c4…

TIME have put Free Evan Gershkovich on the cover!

“It wasn’t that Evan’s work had changed. It was that Russia changed,” says Polina Ivanova.

Read:

time.com/6852858/evan-g…

Picture of the day:
Yulia Navalnaya meets with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the exiled Belarusian opposition leader whose husband is in jail.
Photo by Tsikhanouskaya's press office.

“[Putin] despised him. And the fact he found himself in such harsh conditions reflected this contempt. Navalny simply did not survive it.”

On what becomes of Navalny’s “beautiful Russia of the future,” with ⁦Anastasia Stognei⁩ ⁦Polina Ivanova⁩ on.ft.com/3wkQsZi

Navalny, 47 — President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent and a fierce critic of his invasion of Ukraine — fell ill after a walk and “lost consciousness almost immediately”, the prison service said on Friday.

ft.com/content/9671dc…

Russia's prison service says jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died. No confirmation yet from his team.

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our story on the huge shift in the way Russian prisoners fight in Ukraine is finally out in English. some massive changes over the last couple of months. the biggest are:

1. no pardons from Putin anymore

2. they’ll have to fight till the end of the war

bbc.com/news/world-eur…

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/01/27/wor…

Despite being isolated for almost a year in Lefortovo’s grim prison, Evan stays strong and dignified. He won’t let them break him

Today Igor Girkin/Strelkov was sent to prison. Not for shooting down MH17 & killing 298 people on board. A Moscow court sent him to a penal colony for 4 years on extremism charges. We saw him in court. Thanks to
anton chicherov Ben Tavener

Russian lawmakers will to seize the property of anyone convicted of “fake news” about the war. This is a way of punishing people after they leave the country – several folks I know transferred the deeds to their apartments anticipating something like this meduza.io/news/2024/01/2…

Awful news now confirmed that poet Lev Rubenstein, founder of Moscow conceptualism, has died in hospital after being hit by car. I had good fortune of briefly working alongside him in editorial team of Russian Esquire in 2000s. A sharp, witty, noble man. theins.ru/news/268291

At first glance Moscow’s economy is thriving: shops bristle with designer goods and revellers party on heaving dancefloors.

But as kate de pury discovers, some Russians are struggling to afford basic foods, while others are stockpiling dollars
econ.st/3NURWze

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/12/28/wor…