Narrative spin How a Canadian city got sucked into Russia’s information war An obscure statue to a Ukrainian nationalist leader has given the Kremlin an open goal dispatch Michael Colborne
Identity Russia picks fight with Armenia over Nazi collaboration Armenians responded by vigorous defenses that mostly glossed over the liberation hero’s alliance with the Third Reich dispatch Joshua Kucera
Identity To bury, or not to bury? Russia undecided about legendary Hadji Murad’s skull The Kremlin set up an interagency commission to consider whether to reunite Murad’s skull with his body dispatch Giorgi Lomsadze
Identity Why Russia accuses Poland of monumental ingratitude A Polish government program to remove Soviet-era “monuments of gratitude” has provoked a furious Kremlin reaction feature Matthew Luxmoore
Memory The Kremlin’s 1917 revolution problem The 100th anniversary of the October Revolution brings difficult memories for modern-day Russia feature Amie Ferris-Rotman
Memory Russia’s lock on family history The Russian government won’t allow a teacher to find out if his great-grandfather was wrongfully convicted of being a Nazi collaborator feature Howard Amos
Identity In Putin’s Russia, Ivan the Terrible becomes Ivan the Terrific As Russia’s past is remade, its cruelest leader is a figure to admire not abhor Ekaterina Ponomareva
Rewriting history: why the Kremlin is on a drive for new statues Vladimir Putin’s government is making sure there is only one version of Russian history — and it is glorious introduction Coda Story
Memory One Man’s Struggle For Russia’s Soviet Memory The Kremlin refuses to remember Soviet POWs. A Russian architect refused to forget feature Howard Amos
