The Russian Context

This is the Christmas episode of the Russian Context Podcast in which we want to put Russia in context again. General number of Russians who want to live outside the country reached 22% — that’s the highest result since 2013. More than a half of citizens from 18 to 24 years old want to leave Russia forever, again, the highest result for the past 10 years. In this episode, we spoke to different Russian immigrants, so that in 3 chapters you could get a better understanding why our people choose to depart from the country. Alina and Yura has moved to Vilnius, Daria and Nika — to Tbilisi. They all have their stories about being pressured or chased by the Russian government. The guys told us about their reasons to leave, how they do abroad and if there is a chance that they will return.

This is the third episode of the Russian Context, brought to you by Novaya Gazeta. This time, we speak about preventive measures against the pandemic of COVID-19 in Russia and how the Kremlin tries to find a balance between saving President’s rating and saving people from death. We talked with Aleksandr Panchin, a Ph. D. Biology and member of Russian Science Academy’s commission against pseudoscience, about russian people’s fears and prejudices towards vaccination and QR-codes. On November 27, opponents of covid restrictions visited the "red zone" in the city clinical hospital No. 15 in Moscow with an excursion. The reason for this was the appeal of the head physicians of covid hospitals who suggested to show seriously ill patients and morgues to anti-vaccination agents in order to encourage people to be vaccinated against coronavirus. Natasha Glukhova, our senior reporter, told us how was the tour.We would appreciate your feedback on our email: whatsnew@novayagazeta.ru It's easy to make your contribution to independent journalism in Russia! Please share this podcast with your English-speaking friends, we will be grateful if as many people as possible find out about us!

This is the second episode of The Russian Context, and here we want to talk about education and science, how they suffer from Russian government’s paranoia and conservatism. In this episode we asked a sociologist Grigoriy Yudin about the case of Sergey Zuev, rector of Shaninka university, who was accused for corruption, then we talked to an associate professor in the Higher School of Economics about why students and professorship are supposed to be loyal to the administrations and the authorities, a biologist Mikhail Gelfand told us what struggles new amendments to the law about education make, our politics editor Kirill Martynov explains why technicians are more dangerous for the regime than humanitarians, and Ivan Kurilla, a historian, tells us why historical researches are no more safe in Russia today. We would appreciate your feedback on our email: whatsnew@novayagazeta.ru It's easy to make your contribution to independent journalism in Russia! Please share this podcast with your English-speaking friends, we will be grateful if as many people as possible find out about us!

Meet the Novaya Gazeta's first episode of news podcast where we will tell you about the new means of repressions Russian government came up with, since they are so eager to control people’s minds in the world of the free internet. Our columnist Sergei Golubitskii told us what are the consequences of the sovereign runet, Dasha Kozlova, our politics correspondent, explained everything about the law for the dissemination organisers, Ivan Jilin, the special correspondent, comments on how the true news become fake, and Kirill Martynov, the politics editor, reflects on the future of digital repressions. We would appreciate your feedback on our email: whatsnew@novayagazeta.ruIt's easy to make your contribution to independent journalism in Russia! Please share this podcast with your English-speaking friends, we will be grateful if as many people as possible find out about us!