Sunday digest of pieces from friendly outlets

Sunday digest of pieces from friendly outlets

💜“I tried to help them, but my strength ran out.” Glasnaya told the story of Russia’s quietest dissident — Nina Litvinova. She had been helping political prisoners since the late sixties, and on May 12, 2026, she died by suicide, writing: “thousands of people behind bars are suffering and dying , and I torment myself day and night over my powerlessness.”

💜Several Russian regions have decided to abandon “electronic ballot boxes” in the upcoming September elections, writes The Insider. The authorities explain this by saying that the ballot-processing complexes (KOIB) have run out “because of sanctions.” The alternatives provide more opportunities for falsification

💜“Life in Russia is becoming too expensive to buy books.” Govorit NeMoskva analyzed what is happening to Russia’s book industry in 2026. Print runs have fallen by 26%, publishers are being arrested, and the classics are being labeled.

💜“The siren is screaming, and we don’t know whether it’s air defense or a flood.” SOTAvision spoke with residents of the stanitsa of Troitskaya, who live under the risk of a dam breach and their homes being flooded. People tried to reinforce the dam on the Kuban River with their own hands.

💜“Just please don’t die.” People of Baikal publish a report about how blogger and mother of three Tatyana Chernykh is saving her native village in Buryatia. In Nesterovo, she created a creative space and in recent years has won several multimillion-ruble grants for its development.

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