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Niko Vorobyov

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Sep 18, 2026
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Jul 11, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Niko Vorobyov

    The view from Russia: ‘No party can be antiwar’ in parliamentary election (opens the original)

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    Russia parliamentary elections: 10 parties compete amid war in Ukraine This weekend, Russians are heading to the ballot box to vote in the first parliamentary election since the war with Ukraine began in early 2022. Theoretically up for grabs are 450 seats in Russia’s parliament, the Duma, though the governing United Russia party, led by President Vladimir Putin, is expected to retain its comfortable majority. One of the hopefuls is Damir Gurin, who is running for the Green Party in Russia’s Far

  2. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Niko Vorobyov

    ‘Not going to sacrifice my life’: Russia mobilisation fears grow (opens the original)

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    Owing to his illness, 26-year-old Sasha from Orenburg, a city in Russia close to the Kazakhstan border, has a Category V military ID, which under normal circumstances makes him ineligible for service. Just before partial mobilisation was declared in 2022, he considered leaving for Kazakhstan. But while awaiting the bus, he struck up a conversation with his soon-to-be girlfriend. As they turned back together, they decided against making the drastic move. Over the past year, however, they have gro

  3. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · Niko Vorobyov

    Activists’ bid to sue Russia over climate change gets off to shaky start (opens the original)

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    Until relatively recently, the Yukaghir people lived on the bleak, frozen tundra of northeast Siberia in the same way they had done for centuries, surviving on fishing, hunting, gathering and reindeer herding. Today, there are only 1,813 of them remaining, according to the latest census, after conquest, disease outbreaks and assimilation by Russian settlers as well as industrialisation during the Soviet era. Now, what is left of their traditional lifestyle is threatened by the changing climate.

  4. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Niko Vorobyov

    ‘He had a lot of profiles’: The rise of online drug-facilitated rape gangs (opens the original)

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    Warning: This story includes descriptions of sexual assault that some readers will find disturbing. Zoe Watts’s 16-year marriage to a man she met when she was 17 was abusive. But she had no idea of the depths of his mistreatment until one Sunday. “He sat me down one evening and told me what he was doing. I think he always had a thing for risky behaviour, and this was part of this cat-and-mouse game he was playing with me,” Watts told Al Jazeera from Devon, England. “It was quite tumultuous, but

  5. Article · Jul 11, 2026 · Niko Vorobyov

    Sheinbaum takes on cartels, Trump and the legacy of 1968 (opens the original)

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    One of Claudia Sheinbaum’s earliest childhood memories is visiting political prisoners with her parents, a moment that helps explain why she calls herself a “child of 1968” — the year protest movements erupted around the globe. In Mexico, mass student protests targeted the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had governed Mexico since 1929. Often described as the “perfect dictatorship,” the PRI maintained the illusion of democracy through symbolic elections while suppressing dissent. A

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