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since 2025 › Feb › 01 (Sat) @ 09:10 UTC

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16 days ago

Pro-Kremlin Activists Harass Polish Ambassador in St. Petersburg ⊖

found 2025 › Nov › 20 (Thu) @ 16:10 UTC

a story from The Moscow Times ✅ › The Moscow Times

Ambassador Krzysztof Krajewski was walking to the Catholic Church of St. Catherine on Sunday when a crowd surrounded him and began shouting, Polish media reported.

18 days ago

‘Carousel Arrests’: Inside Russia’s Tactic for Keeping Detainees Locked Up ⊖

found 2025 › Nov › 18 (Tue) @ 15:30 UTC

a story from The Moscow Times ✅ › The Moscow Times

The St. Petersburg street band Stoptime's members are the latest people to face repeated administrative arrests in Russia.

34 days ago

‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst ⊕⊕

found 2025 › Nov › 02 (Sun) @ 12:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and th…

39 days ago

Police Foil Attempted Kidnapping of Zenit Midfielder in St. Petersburg

found 2025 › Oct › 28 (Tue) @ 15:30 UTC

a story from The Moscow Times ✅ › The Moscow Times

One of the suspects claimed the kidnapping orders came from outside Russia, while another claimed he was told it was a “birthday prank.”

Russia Blocks World’s Largest Anime and Manga Database Over LGBTQ+ Content ⊖

found 2025 › Oct › 28 (Tue) @ 13:25 UTC

a story from The Moscow Times ✅ › The Moscow Times

Previously, a St. Petersburg court banned “Death Note,” “Tokyo Ghoul” and “Inuyashiki,” citing concerns that teens were re-enacting violent scenes from the cartoons.

40 days ago

Police Foil Attempted Kidnapping of Zenit Midfielder in St. Petersburg

found 2025 › Oct › 27 (Mon) @ 16:10 UTC

a story from The Moscow Times ✅ › The Moscow Times

One of the suspects claimed the kidnapping orders came from outside Russia, while another claimed he was told it was a “birthday prank.”

46 days ago

Singing These Songs in Russia Could Land You in Jail ⊕

found 2025 › Oct › 21 (Tue) @ 16:30 UTC

a story from The Moscow Times ✅ › The Moscow Times

Stoptime rose to viral fame this fall with its performances of popular anti-Putin and anti-war anthems in St. Petersburg. Its members are now in jail.

47 days ago

Flight Skids Off Runway in St. Petersburg After Emergency Landing

found 2025 › Oct › 20 (Mon) @ 09:05 UTC

a story from The Moscow Times ✅ › The Moscow Times

The aircraft, bound for Baku, returned to the airport shortly after takeoff. All 155 passengers were evacuated safely.

51 days ago

MARK ALMOND: Will Gen Z heroine Diana's Swan Lake protest spark a new Russian revolution that topples Putin?

found 2025 › Oct › 17 (Fri) @ 00:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Seeing a crowd of young people protesting against the war in Ukraine in the heart of St Petersburg on Wednesday will have sent an unfamiliar chill down Vladimir Putin 's spine.

Teenage girl who led huge crowd singing anti-Putin song in St Petersburg is jailed for 13 days after the rare show of dissent sparked fury among Russian officials ⊖

found 2025 › Oct › 16 (Thu) @ 14:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

A teenager who led a huge crowd in singing an anti-Putin song in St Petersburg has been jailed after hundreds of Russians called for the dictator to be overthrown in a rare show of public dissent.

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