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Byline: Anna Nemtsova Many Russian journalists have become experts in black humor. They have to be if one of their goals is to remain sane. One reporter at a state-owned [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Anastasia Zakharova's desk is in some kind of organised chaos. Several images of Vladimir Putin are scattered across the surface, along with a few pictures of Russian [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Newsweek spoke with Dmitry Yarosh, 42, a leader of the Right Sector, a once obscure right-wing group that is now at the center of a geopolitical standoff [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Earlier this week, a group of local civil rights activists took their friends, members of the band Pussy Riot, on a sightseeing stroll around downtown Sochi. They [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova What do the 'black widow' Islamist suicide bombers reported to be headed for the Winter Olympics in Sochi look like? I think back to May 2012 when [...]

Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova This year, Western troops will withdraw from Afghanistan after 13 years of war. They'll leave behind an undefeated enemy - as well as an [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Many feel bitter in the republic of Abkhazia, also known as Apsny, which translates as the Land of the Soul. Five years after the Russian-Georgian war gave [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova In the former Russian timber town of Vydrino on the shore of Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia, life is so slow residents joke that carrying plastic bags [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova After the Russian president and his wife announced their divorce last week, signs point to a growing role for Putin's rumored mistress. The timing certainly seemed suspicious--days [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova A charismatic president and a billionaire prime minister fight for the country's soul. Once upon a time, the presidential palace perched on a hill overlooking the Georgian [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova After he was attacked with acid, the artistic director talks of a 'war.' Russian history books are thick with sinister plots and assassination attempts. But the acid [...]

The article discusses the rule of Ramzan Kadyrov, president of Chechnya. Appointed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in 2007, Kadyrov is a key figure in Russia's attempt to cultivate a moderate brand of Islam in the region. However, various policies he has pursued suggest Kadyrov may favor a more radical style of Islam.

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Inside Russia's end-time cults. Cupping candles in their hands, wrapped in white silk and knit robes, nearly 3,000 people knelt on the snow in the middle of [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova The Russian poet's wife gets a modern makeover. Gracefully, her narrow waist embraced in a tight corset, layers of skirts rustling behind her on the floor, Natalya [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Russia's president flexes his muscle at home and abroad. Six months after returning to power in the face of mounting opposition, Russian President Vladimir Putin is exercising [...]

The article looks at the governor of Kirov oblast, Russia Nikita Belykh, appointed by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, and his task of transforming the city of Kirov. According to the author, the problems of Kirov include unemployment, the decline of Soviet infrastructure and poor public-health conditions. The article also discusses the largest challenge for Belykh is Kirov's corrupt law-enforcement system.

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Belarussian dissidents face an excruciating choice: jail or exile. Aware of the possibility that the secret police were listening in, Belarussian dissident Anastasia Palazhanka whispered to the [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Russky Island, Russia -- Russky Island, the home of Russia's newest university, is not a hospitable place. The winds from the Pacific Ocean are incessant, and temperatures [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Why young people are fleeing Russia's Far East. To stay and be successful in her Siberian home city of Khabarovsk, where half the other people her age [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova An ancient tradition tries to survive in war-torn Dagestan. Early mornings begin with the pounding of hammers. A warm, seductive mix of aromas--smoky baked bread and sweet [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova The general keeps waging an uphill fight. At ease in one of the big, well-padded armchairs aboard his Bombardier jet, Gen. Viktor Ivanov talks to Newsweek about [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova A diplomat with a big mouth--and a big mission. It's a turbulent moment to be Washington's Man in Russia, where protests against Vladimir Putin are rocking the [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Russia's underground theater takes on Putin. Russia's semi-underground theater troupe Teatr.doc is playing a prominent role in the country's opposition politics these days, even though their plays [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Meet the family leading Russia's opposition. The night after Vladimir Putin was inaugurated for his third term as president, a trio of brothers sat down in a [...]

Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova The Russian leader may be in for a surprise: he misjudges his adversaries. Vladimir Putin is a snake--he says so himself. At his latest [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Russia's top antinarcotics official, a former KGB officer and ally of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, speaks about why his country must help its southern neighbors fight drugs. [...]

Vladimir Putin's intention to return to the Kremlin has opposition critics warning that the country is reverting to Soviet times. But is that what Russia secretly wants? When the history [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Yulia Tymoshenko isn't afraid to be a martyr. She may soon get her chance. Yulia Tymoshenko seemed a little paler and far more irritated after her arrest, [...]

Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova The Kremlin plays a dangerous game by pandering to far-right hate groups. Within hours after Anders Breivik's July 22 bombing and shooting spree in [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova Natalya Zabolotna wants to make Ukraine a top destination for Modern Art. Now she just has to convince the monks. Think of Natalya Zabolotna as a six-foot-tall [...]

Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky theatre has hired a--gasp!--foreign choreographer to breathe new life into its shows. Nacho Duato is like the nose in Nikolai Gogol's [...]

Byline: Anna Nemtsova In a spectacularly public falling-out, the Kremlin's favorite court ballerina turns on Russia's ruling party. Until last month, Anastasia Volochkova--long-limbed, big-boned, blue-eyed--was the Kremlin's official court ballerina [...]

Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova Chechnya's president hopes to make Grozny a top force in European football, with a dash of Muslim flair. Chechnya's 34-year-old President Ramzan Kadyrov already [...]

Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova In the seven months since being arrested by the FBI and drummed out of the U.S., flame-haired spy Anna Chapman has become Russia's hottest [...]

Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova Putin's get-tough policies are a disaster, as the Moscow airport bombing proves. Why are Russians so unwilling to admit it? As much as she [...]

Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko--dubbed Europe's last dictator--has spent most of his 16 years in office jailing opponents and squashing independent media. But now Lukashenko [...]

Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova In his 16 years as president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko has ticked just about every box that defines a modern-day dictator. He's jailed opponents [...]