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June 2025

“Highly toxic and carcinogenic”: Anapa residents' fears as oil spill clean-up stalls
Most beaches in the popular Russian seaside resort of Anapa are closed this summer, as deadlines keep slipping to remove huge mountains of oil-polluted…
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How Belarus dissidents in exile abroad are pursued and threatened
Some receive threatening messages or phone-calls, others say their relatives are visited by authorities back home.
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‘Made with hate’: Why Russian teenagers are joining neo-Nazi groups
Researchers report a spike in far-right violence this year, but say many self-styled neo-Nazis seem more motivated by social media hype than ideology.
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'Their flags are getting on our nerves.' Have Poles fallen out of love with Ukrainians?
Three years on from the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian refugees in Poland say they no longer feel so welcome. BBC Russian asks Poles…
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No connection... how Russians survived the May holidays with no mobile internet
Heightened wartime security measures mean Russian businesses and the general public are having to learn to live with unreliable electronic…
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May 2025

‘Return or destroy’: British and US bestsellers hit by purge in Russian bookshops
A Russian distributor has ordered booksellers to pull works by authors such as Jeffery Eugenides and Slavoj Žižek, in the latest case of censorship to…
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5,000 officers dead: what we know about Russian losses in Ukraine by mid-May
More than 5,000 Russian officers have been confirmed dead since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Of these, around one in 10 was a senior officer with…
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‘Migrants are the easiest target’. Russia’s latest crackdown on foreign labour
This year, Russia created a centralised database to track and restrict the rights of migrants who have supposedly broken the law. There are already…
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‘Not treason but a fight against evil.’ How one Russian couple helped the Ukrainian war effort
Sergei and Tatyana Voronkov decided to leave Russia in 2014 after growing disillusioned with the country. But when Russia came to the southeastern…
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How Russia took record losses in Ukraine in 2024
Last year was the deadliest for Russian forces since the start of the full-scale war with at least 45,287 killed.
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From golf partner to Russia envoy. Why Donald Trump chose Steve Witkoff to reset relations with Vladimir Putin
The billionaire real estate developer's rapid promotion over more experienced colleagues has sparked concern in Washington and Kyiv.
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