Meet the doctors fighting anti-vax attackers online Anti-vaccine online abuse is scaring doctors into silence. But now hundreds are fighting back dispatch Isobel Cockerell
LGBTQ Georgians debate rights strategy as violence threatens Pride Week In an era of information manipulation, it’s much harder for activists to identify hostile forces and forge a shared resistance dispatch Lucy Papachristou
How the last Chechen rights activist was silenced Chechen leader Kadyrov used the Russian playbook of disinformation and questionable court hearings to imprison Oyub Titiev, a veteran human rights worker dispatch Maria Georgieva
Russia’s disability ‘denialism’ A controversial new film about a boy born paralyzed has conjured nostalgia for Soviet times, when the disabled were kept out of sight review Daria Litvinova
Putin the pro-choice champion The Russian leader’s fans among the U.S. Christian Right prefer to ignore his liberal views on abortion feature Amie Ferris-Rotman
For Christian conservatives, ‘sinners’ are essential allies From Putin to Trump, “family values” advocates say they will work with anyone to advance their agenda dispatch Agata Popeda
Small gay rights rally held in Tbilisi amid fears of violence Activists ceded the streets to homophobic priests and neo-Nazis dispatch Giorgi Lomsadze
Georgia’s condemned condoms A cheeky contraception in Georgia renews the debate on the separation of church, state and safe sex dispatch Giorgi Lomsadze
How Two Russian Grandmothers Turned Into An Internet Sensation The Russian government got more than it bargained for when it slapped down a bunch of cadets for uploading a spoof dance video video Coda Story
How disinformation became a new threat to women Female politicians and other high profile women face a growing threat from sexualized disinformation dispatch Nina Jankowicz
Why the Kremlin is waltzing over ‘Matilda’ A new movie about Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II, and his affair with a Polish ballerina has brought protesters onto the streets — and many are Putin supporters. But the Kremlin is dancing with both sides feature Daria Litvinova
Meet the gay Russian man blackmailed to infiltrate terrorist groups in Syria An investigation by a Moscow-based newspaper this spring made headlines around the world that the Russian government in Chechnya, a republic in the North Caucasus, was committing horrific crimes against gay men. Russia’s leading independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta exposed systematic arrests, torture and in some cases killings of homosexuals in Chechnya. dispatch Katia Patin and Caucasian Knot
‘Anywhere You Live, There is Your Home’: Story of a Refugee Holding on in Berlin’s Tempelhof video Luisa Beck and Sofiya Voznaya
