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Iryna Khalip

exclusively for Novaya Gazeta Europe

43 articles
StoriesSociety

Cold case The Ukrainian Holocaust survivor who froze to death at home in Kyiv amid power cuts in the depths of winter

InterviewPolitics

Gulag laureate Freed Belarusian Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski has finally been able to collect his peace prize

StoriesSociety

A moveable feast After experiencing the hardship of exile first hand, one Belarusian in Poland has started a food bank to help other refugees

StoriesPolitics

Special military obligation How Belarusian political prisoners are being forced to support the Russian war effort in Ukraine

StoriesPolitics

Minsk madness What does Alexander Lukashenko’s latest eccentric diatribe tell us about his state of mind?

CommentPolitics

The power of refusal Why did Belarusian opposition politician Mikalai Statkevich choose a return to brutal imprisonment over exile in Lithuania?

StoriesPolitics

Big brothers Russia is playing catch-up with Belarus, which has long been imprisoning people for reading ‘extremist’ content online

StoriesSociety

Hanging on the telephone A Russian reservist has begun an 18-year prison sentence for treason after trying to visit his mother in Ukraine

AnalysisPolitics

Free at last What led to the release of 14 political prisoners from Belarusian prisons on Saturday?

StoriesSociety

Flying the flag A stalwart of the Belarusian protest movement lives on to march another day

InterviewSociety

Rowing it alone How Southampton-based anaesthesiologist Leonid Krivsky rowed across the Atlantic, collected £50,000 for Ukraine and found himself along the way

StoriesSociety

Putin’s revisionist gift The heroic defence of Minsk that never happened

StoriesSociety

Notes from the underground American musician Joanna Stingray reflects on her extraordinary life at the heart of Leningrad’s late-eighties rock scene

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