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Russia Depicts Wounded Soldiers as Heroes, or Not at All

Troops with amputated limbs or serious injuries return home to find a patchwork system of treatment and, often, efforts to keep them out of the...

Russia Depicts Wounded Soldiers as Heroes, or Not at All

Troops with amputated limbs or serious injuries return home to find a patchwork system of treatment and, often, efforts to keep them out of the...

Russian Women Protest Long Deployments for Soldiers in Ukraine

“Make way for someone else,” a new grass-roots movement demands as women challenge the official argument that the mobilized troops are needed in combat indefinitely.

A Russian Town Where the War Dead Were Everyone’s Neighbors

The contradictions of Vladimir Putin’s war are changing the face of towns with military bases in Russia. Patriotism and pride are abundant, but so are...

In Russian Military Town, Patriotism and Pathos Live Side by Side

The contradictions of Vladimir Putin’s war are changing the face of towns with military bases in Russia. Patriotism and pride are abundant, but so are...

In Russian Schools, It’s Recite Your ABC’s and ‘Love Your Army’

The curriculum for young Russians is increasingly emphasizing patriotism and the heroism of Moscow’s army, while demonizing the West as “gangsters.” One school features a...

He Heeded Russia’s Call to Enlist. Five Months Later, He Was Dead.

Pvt. Ivan Ovlashenko was one of at least 16,000 Russians who have died in Ukraine, more than in the Soviets’ Afghan war. It’s getting hard...
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