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Higher prices, simpler menus, and fewer customers: In year five of the war, Russia's restaurants and bars are finally struggling to survive

“They hung me up in an abandoned building and started beating me”: Palestinian sexual minorities speak out about repression

“Putinist formalism has arrived”: Contemporary art in Russia is struggling to survive under state repression

“Many won’t make it through the year”: Fuel shortages are hitting businesses across Russia

No country for old metal heads: Russian police are breaking up concerts and arresting young and old alike

Skip the exam and grab a rifle: Russia is making higher education less accessible

“I looked at the gas shortages and closed my cafe before I went broke”: Russian-occupied Crimea is bracing for a summer without fuel

“Media training was part of the program”: The Gaza aid flotilla has sparked controversy, just as it was intended to

Escape from the “Digital GULAG”: Ordinary Russians are finding ways to bypass the Kremlin’s internet restrictions

Tents, dirty water, and medicine shortages: Life in the Gaza Strip after the ceasefire

Moral migrants, bitter arrivals: Inside Russia's “values visa” trap

“The judge said he sees no threats in Russia”: Anti-war Russians are being denied asylum all around the world

The home front: Opponents of domestic violence are facing increased pressure in wartime Russia

In Putin’s bad book: Censorship is reshaping Russia’s publishing industry

“This will be the last war with Hezbollah!”: How Lebanese people are surviving the latest outbreak of war

“They destroyed all of Moscow’s competitive advantages”: Internet shutdowns are taking their toll on the Russian capital

“Join the elite drone forces, and you’ll come home famous!”: Russian universities are luring students into paid military service

“The lights went out, the internet vanished, and the water was soon gone too”: Residents of Russia’s Belgorod are feeling the effects of war

“We didn’t spill our blood to negotiate with them”: Iranian society in the aftermath of the protest shootings

“Stepping outside your apartment is a mortal risk”: Russian forces target civilians as the Kremlin’s “human safari” in Kherson continues

Heated bricks, shared generators, and candles: How Kyiv survives without power and heat

Wild West of the Middle East: How Palestinians and Bedouins survive on the West Bank

“It’s best to avoid traveling by train”: Women in Russia’s Belgorod Region face violence from soldiers

“You walk in and see living skeletons”: Humiliation and abuse in Russian psychiatric care homes

Catch your fish and eat it too: Inside Kamchatka’s poaching empire

This land is my land: The clashes between Palestinians and Israeli settlers look set to continue

Luxury rubble: Real estate prices in Russian-occupied Donbas skyrocket despite widespread destruction, shelling, and water shortages

“This isn’t the Middle Ages, and we aren’t serfs”: Locals in Ukrainian-controlled parts of Donbas react to Putin’s territorial demands

Outrageous but victorious: Milei’s party wins Argentina’s elections despite widespread discontent

“They ran me over twice”: Russian military personnel responsible for multiple car accidents in frontline regions

Guerrillas of kink: Russia’s sex parties go underground

“Drones fly right above the stores”: Residents flee the border areas of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Region amid Russian advance

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