Novaya Gazeta special correspondent Elena Kostyuchenko reports from the rebellious Kazakh prairie: Zhanaozen, or just Uzen, is a city home to 100 thousand people in the Mangystau Province of Western Kazakhstan. The province is believed to be the most expensive and unhealthy to live in throughout all of Kazakhstan, while Zhanaozen is considered to be the most expensive and unhealthy city in the province...

“Putin is a crook! Putin is a crook!” the protesters chanted half heartedly. Journalists caught up to Viktor Biryukov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Department in Moscow for Interaction with Civil Society, by the base of the Karl Marx monument. Biryukov was busy trying to deflect a flood of criticism from civil society...

Minsk in January and Minsk in March are two completely different cities. Back then, Minsk was surviving on hope. Now Minsk has been inundated with despair and consternation. Court proceedings are underway, while searches, interrogations...

Late last Sunday night, the following post was published on Belarusian presidential candidate Ales Mikhalevich’s blog: “I am summoned for questioning by the KGB. I have good reason to think that I if I were to go, I may not be able to...

Strangers at the door “I told her at once: ‘Mom, do not open the door to strangers’,” says nine-year-old Liza. “And Sasha wanted to open the door! She is such a child!” “I won’t do it again,” says Sasha slowly. She is four. The strangers...

At his family’s request, there were no speeches at Stanislav’s funeral on Friday, 23 January. The Ostankino graveyard was filled with a taciturn crowd. Tears and whispers ... The kiosk sold out of flowers. Those who had come to say a last...