Stories — December 2023

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Stories — December 2023

Ukraine was the target of most Russian fakes last year. The fact-checking project Provereno.Media summarizes the events of 2023.

27 December

Daniil Fedkevich

Mobilizing Gay People, Mined Passports, Zelensky the Locust and “Glory to Urine!”

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How Russia Imports Foreign Components and Machinery

Sanctions have complicated Russia’s effort to secure foreign-made military technology. But when it comes to sourcing the inputs for gunpowder — the explosive powering the army’s relentless artillery fire — Moscow can still rely on two Central Asian neighbors who have ramped up exports of cotton pulp, a key ingredient, since the invasion

21 December

Metin Kazama, Olga Loginova, Maria Zholobova

Central Asian Cotton Powers Russia’s Sanctioned Gunpowder Plants

This is not a problem — tens of thousands of them are imported into Russia, supposedly “for installation on hunting weapons”

26 December

Roman Romanovskiy

How Do Russian Snipers Get American and European Sights

A documentary by IStories

21 December

Wives of Mobilized Men on the War, Putin and the Future of Russia