11 July 2020 Release Ivan Safronov! Hi! This is Elya Pakhomova, Team 29’s Media Director and Press Secretary. It goes without saying what the main news is this week. The…
4 July 2020 Hi! This is Elya Pakhomova, head of the media department and spokesperson at Team 29. This week was marked by the vote on the constitutional amendments. Everyone…
27 June 2020 Hi. It’s Aleksei Yurtaev. We’ve completed the first season of our Russia Shuts Down podcast. Over seven episodes of the podcast, we explained how our country has…
19 June 2020 Hi. Team 29 here. The big news for us this week was undoubtedly the revelation that 78-year-old professor and President of the Arctic Academy Valery Mitko has…
13 June 2020 Hi, this is Tanya Toroheshnikova I used to adore Nautilus. I had the bridge of ‘Goodbye, America!’ as a ringtone on one of my first touch-tone phones. …
6 June 2020 Hi! This is Aleksei Yurtaev “I’m turning off the TV, I’m writing to you” At the start of the week, I happened to hear Viktor Tsoi’s timeless…
30 May 2020 Hi. This is Natasha Korchenkova The week started with some good news: our client the radio engineer Gennady Kravtsov was set free after six years in Mordovia’s…
23 May 2020 Hi! Tanya Torocheshnikova here. I’m not going to say anything about the weather – you can see that for yourselves. It’s what’s off limits that I’ll tell…
2 May 2020 Hi. It’s Tanya Torocheshnikova. This week, Putin made his usual address to the people. This time, the Pechenegs and Polovtsy didn’t show up to help. We did…
25 April 2020 Hi, this is Lesha Yurtaev While the experts argue over when things will get better, when borders will open, and when we’ll be able to travel abroad…