boriskov · Apr 30, 2026
Russia is debating a school curriculum cut starting in 2027. Experts, teachers and parents agree students are overloaded, but doubt the reform will address the main causes: bureaucracy, standardized testing and ideological pressure in schools.
boriskov · Apr 28, 2026
After April drone attacks on an oil depot and refinery in Tuapse, people were killed, the city was engulfed in smoke and “black rain,” and oil products reached the river and the Black Sea.
boriskov · Apr 26, 2026
Volunteers from Rubikus.HelpUA and Barrier-Free Foundation organize complex evacuations of people with limited mobility from Ukraine to European countries, arranging transport, escorts, and routes even under fire.
boriskov · Apr 26, 2026
After the US and Germany opened large sets of data on Nazi Party members, journalists and experts compared Germany’s archive disclosure practices with Russia’s continued secrecy around Stalin-era repression.
boriskov · Apr 24, 2026
For the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, Novaya Gazeta Europe’s sources recall Soviet secrecy, the 2022 occupation of the exclusion zone, disputes over contamination, and the fate of mutation research.