Witnesses Against War

On October 17, Tatiana Glushkova, a lawyer for Memorial, spoke at a briefing for the UN Human Rights Committee. She spoke about political...

«Чеченская оппозиция самая закаленная в России»: Абубакар Янгулбаев, чеченский правозащитник, об оппозиции Рамзану Кадырову, войне и...

‘The Chechen resistance forces are the toughest in Russia’: the Chechen human rights activist Abubakar Yangulbaev discusses opposition to...

On the morning of 10th October, the forces of the Russian Federation launched a massive rocket attack on residential buildings and the...

This is WAW’s second instalment in a series of digests of acts of political repression in the Russian Federation since the beginning of...

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...

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...

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...

For the first time WAW is publishing a digest of acts of political repression in the Russian Federation since the beginning of the war....

“A Russian prison – a place that robs you of any future,” Igor Kalyapin, Russian human rights activist, on the recruitment of prisoners...

As a journalist, I understood that the stakes were high. The Kremlin is playing all in. I sensed the aggravated crisis. Yet I never...

Наш корреспондент подслушал и записал услышанные им обрывки фраз и диалогов жителей Москвы о войне, Путине, мобилизации и текущей...

Illustration - Yuri Pogorelov / Иллюстрация Юрий Погорелов. In a frenzied panic due to military failure on the battlefield, and unable...

Nikita Krivoshein on the Russian Orthodox Church’s position on the war in Ukraine. Since the early 1980s, many followers of the Moscow...

From Russian journalist Roman Super's telegram channel. 5th September 2022. Guilt eats me up every day. Each day I think about something...

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....

From Telegram Channel created by Russian journalist Roman Super. Hello Roman. I am a volunteer. Assisting refugees became my way to...

После 24 февраля люди в России, если и говорят друг с другом в общественных местах, то больше вполголоса и полунамеками, опасаясь что...

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....

WAW talked to Nikita Igorevich Krivoshein, a French Orthodox writer and translator, descendant of the “first wave” Russian emigration....