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Yevgeny Vlasov, an electrical engineer, at home with his family and lawyer, Nadezhda Nizovkina, at right, in Ulan-Ude, Russia on May 29, 2023. Vlasov...

Aleksei Venediktov, whose radio station was shut down after the war began, in Moscow on May 19, 2023. "We did not see the Putin who was on a historica...

Oleg Orlov, a leading human rights activist for more than three decades at the head of Memorial International, which was shut down in 2021 along with...

Nikolai Vorodnikov, left, in his garage in the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude, Russia on May 31, 2023. Vorodnikov has sent about a hundred vehicles to the...

A Russian Armed Forces billboard in Moscow, on May 20, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin has always used war, from Chechnya through Georgia to Uk...

A celebration for new members of a Communist youth organization, in Moscow's Red Square, on May 21, 2023. A new generation is being schooled to adopt...

The centennial celebration of the Russian Buryatia Republic, where medals were pinned on heroes past and present, in Ulan-Ude, Russia on May 30, 2023....

A bust of Joseph Lenin's head in the central square of Ulan-Ude, near the Mongolian border, in Russia on May 31, 2023. The Russian government has been...

A cemetery in Ulan-Ude, Russia, where an entire section has been designated for casualties from the war, on May 30, 2023. The Russian government has b...

Outside the Moscow court hearing the trial of The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the first Western journalist arrested since the Cold...

Dmitri Muratov, the Nobel-prize-winning editor of the shuttered independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, in Moscow on May 20, 2023. The government closed...

The centennial celebration of the Russian Buryatia Republic, where medals were pinned on heroes past and present, in Ulan-Ude, Russia on May 30, 2023....

A street in the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude, Russia on May 29, 2023. The Russian government has been paying local military recruits about $2,500 a month...

A destroyed car in Shebekino, in the Belograd region near Russia's western border, on June 8, 2023. In the Belgorod region, Ukrainian cross-border att...

Ilya Kostyukov, who was thrown out of college for his opposition to the war and now helps Russians desperate to avoid or leave the war front, in his o...

Julia Rolikova, who persuaded her ex-husband not to go and fight thousands of miles from their home in western Siberia, in Novy Enkheluk, Russia on Ma...

The Fishery Museum at Lake Baikal, where faded photographs capture the enormity of the Soviet resolve, in Novy Enkheluk, Russia on May 29, 2023. Sovie...

A clock hanging in the home of Yevgeny Vlasov, an electrical engineer who was fined for criticizing the war in social media posts, in Ulan-Ude, Russia...

The city of Ulan-Ude, near the Mongolian border, in Russia on May 27, 2023. The Russian government has been paying local military recruits about $2,50...

The small shrine marking where the opposition politician, Boris Nemtsov, was gunned down on Feb. 27, 2015, in Moscow on May 21, 2023. Countless camera...

Children pose in front of a bust of Joseph Stalin near Moscow's Red Square, on May 21, 2023. President Vladimir Putin has largely rehabilitated Stalin...

Russian President Vladimir Putin giving a speech in Luzhniki Stadium during "Defender of the Fatherland Day" in Moscow, Feb. 22, 2023. In the autumn o...

Young cadets running toward the "Victory Museum", in Moscow on Feb. 16, 2023. A new generation is being schooled to adopt patriotic values from an ear...

Schoolchildren on a tour of the "Victory Museum", in Moscow on Feb. 16, 2023. A new generation is being schooled to adopt patriotic values from an ear...

Conscripts at the Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, dedicated to "the military feats of the Russian people", in Moscow on Jan. 16, 2023. In the a...