Alexey Kovalev

Alexey Kovalev is an independent journalist and former investigations editor at Meduza who left Russia in 2022.

Articles by Alexey Kovalev

A portrait of Darya Dugina is displayed near her coffin at a ceremony at the Ostankino television complex in Moscow on Aug. 23.

Putin’s New Martyr for the Russian Cause

Argument

August 26, 2022, 1:59 PM

Crosses, flowers, and photographs mark the graves of victims of the battles for Irpin and Bucha at the cemetery of Irpin, Ukraine, on May 16.

Russia’s Brutal Honesty Has Destroyed the West’s Appeasers

Argument

August 12, 2022, 9:04 AM

Russia's assault on the South Caucasus in the 19th century

For Opposition to Putin’s War, Look to the Fringes of His Empire

Analysis

May 20, 2022, 10:10 AM

A mass grave is exhumed by local authorities as they attempt to identify the bodies of civilians killed during the Russian occupation in Bucha, Ukraine.

Russia’s Ukraine Propaganda Has Turned Fully Genocidal

Analysis

April 9, 2022, 8:05 AM

Russian journalist Oksana Baulina killed in Ukraine

Oksana Baulina, Fashion Editor-Turned-Kremlin Scourge, Killed in Kyiv

Obituary

March 25, 2022, 3:41 PM

A live broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual phone-in is seen at the TASS news agency in Moscow on June 30, 2021.

Russian State Media Aren’t Preparing for War

Analysis

February 2, 2022, 11:50 AM

Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov

Russia’s Crazy Sham Election

Report

September 16, 2021, 11:27 AM

A Russian healthcare worker administers a dose of Sputnik V vaccine at a vaccination center in the GUM department store in Moscow on July 2.

The Shocking Enormity of Russia’s Botched Pandemic Response

Dispatch

July 5, 2021, 3:57 AM

Protest in support of Alexei Navalny in Vladivostok, Russia

With Putin’s Latest Crackdown, Russia Is Going Dark

Argument

May 6, 2021, 4:24 AM

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