Europe

  • Snapshot of the Meduza front page, 24 October 2026

    Making the Kremlin sad

    Ivan Kolpakov, editor-in-chief of Russian-language news site Meduza, tells Anne Schumacher about publishing under repression, circumventing censorship and Putin’s objectives

  • A night time gathering of people under lights and trees

    Real existing degrowth

    Radical alternatives to capitalism are being practiced across the world as everyday realities, writes Grace Wright-Arora

  • Women’s day off: feminist strike action since 1975

    Valgerður Pálmadóttir recalls the Icelandic women’s strike in 1975 and assesses its continuing relevance today

  • On a bright yellow background, a montage of movie posters and filmmaker Radu Jude holding an award

    Jude awakening

    Juliet Jaques celebrates the work of Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, whose incisive social commentary prioritises laughter, substance and style

  • Building the post-Soviet world

    From the corrupt to the inspired, Owen Hatherley charts the architecture that followed the fall of the Soviet Union

  • From bystander to peacebuilder

    Vlad Sakovich reports on People First, a new campaign to release thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war, Russian political prisoners and forcefully transferred Ukrainian children

  • A large procession of people parading through an open square carrying flags and banners, the majority of them red

    The Soviet enigma and its tragic aftermath

    Boris Kagarlitsky’s The Long Retreat provides a necessary Marxist analysis of the Soviet tragedy, says Walden Bello