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  ‘I will remember her ashes forever’ Why Nizhny Novgorod’s most independent journalist, Irina Slavina, burned herself alive in front of the local police station

  The death of Irina Slavina, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the free journalism KozaPress, is the living evidence of media censorship and violation of free speech in Russia.
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  Goodbye, Lenin: How a small town in Russia triggered outrage by ditching a few of its Soviet street names

  Protests recently erupted in Tarusa after the city's council changed the names of streets named after leaders in the Soviet Union back to their pre-revolutionary forms. While some tend to agree that the Soviet revolutionaries should no longer be glorified, those protesting feel that the re-naming of streets is a sign of fascism and an unwarranted rejection of the town's history
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  ‘Blame the Russian Federation’ Journalist Irina Slavina’s self-immolation came after years of constant pressure from the authorities

  This article points to the political parties (in Russia) responsible for the death of the correspondent Irina Slavina.
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  ‘You have no masks’ Meet the Belarusian developer working on a facial recognition algorithm for doxing riot police

  In response to severe police suppression of protests in Belarus, developer Andrey Maximov designed a program that exposes the identities of police officers accused of abuse. While this is a positive evolution in terms of the Belarusian people's tactics of non-violent direct action, its efficacy will only be revealed by the nature of the response of the Lukashenko regime.
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  Belarusian police disperse anti-Lukashenko ‘women’s march’ in Minsk, more than 100 arrests made

  This article elaborates on how the Belarusian authorities responded to a women’s march that took place in Minsk, demanding for the impeachment of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.