We journey through Vladimir Putin’s Russia to measure the aftershocks of the political explosion that rocked the world a century ago. Russia is both a great, glorious country and an ongoing disaster. Just when you decide it is the one, it turns around and discloses the other...

What makes people decide that, rather than start over elsewhere, they’ll stay in a place with ghosts of the past both bitter and sweet? The most powerful takeaway for Ingurazova was finding out how in the midst of it all, life goes on. This sentiment also parallels her own as a photographer. “Photography is about staying,” she says, and coming away with a deeper understanding...

Russian lawyer had to make a choice: either had to drop the biggest client, or give up promising career at a prestigious American law firm and launch his own practice...

Communism afforded options for Russian women — including the right to vote and access to legal abortion — decades ahead of their Western sisters gaining them. Recently high-profile rape case brought layers of questions — over power, conscience, justice and feminism. The case also challenges views on the law and sexual violence in the region around Ufa, where Muslims make up around half of the population, and across Russia as a whole...

Trained in journalism, I became a postwar photographer and have worked on peace processes. For years, I traveled to unrecognized countries that don’t exist on world maps. Once, I went to a disputed region on the eastern coast of the Black Sea that was destroyed by civil war after the collapse of the Soviet Union. One night, I woke up suffering from terrible pain and was carried to a hospital by an unknown man. A few days after an urgent operation, he came to check on me. After abdominal bleeding and massive blood loss, I needed a place to recover — he offered me a place to stay at his house until I could walk. I took this leap of faith, trusting a stranger...

Пока сытая футболом Европа вполглаза смотрела отборочные матчи на Евро-2020, в Нагорном Карабахе народ ломился на матчи ЧЕ по футболу среди непризнанных, а то и вовсе неведомых государств, нацменьшинств и диаспор. Чем отличаются альтернативные турниры Конфедерации независимых футбольных ассоциаций? Начать надо со зрителей. Для них выход на поле своей команды уже признание. Не только ее, но и их, болельщиков, региона, образа жизни. Поэтому стадионы полны, а событие выходит за рамки футбола...