Relatives and a good friend of mine in Russia have been subjected to intimidating visits by the police during the latest anti-Putin protests. If this is what’s happening in my close circle, one can only imagine how far the authorities are ready to go to quell the opposition movement
German public TV recently broadcasted two movies on the painful, persisting problem of antisemitism at school, made by Jewish directors with a Russian background
Experts and parents may be appalled, but the creators of 'Like Nastya' and 'Kids Diana Show' cracked the code, and the little stars make millions of dollars
The producer of a documentary on Putin's critic who was poisoned in August explains why he found Navalny as great a mystery as the Russian president himself - and how he dealt with the film's director being brutally murdered
Protest leader Maria Kolesnikova realizes the danger that lurks for those who oppose President Alexander Lukashenko, but she isn't backing down
'People here don’t really distinguish between feminism and LGBTQ,' says artist and activist Yulia Tsvetkova, who was charged with distributing pornography to minors over the internet
A former KGB officer, real-life neo-Nazis and a slaughtered pig are all taking part in DAU, an extreme art experiment which is raising concerns of abuse
The food may not be kosher, but St. Petersburg’s Israeli restaurants have a lot of blue-and-white flags and Mediterranean music. Israeli-style falafel, shakshuka and shawarma, it seems, have become a big hit in Russia’s northern capital
Irreverent ‘Sasha’ Dolgopolov is among Russia's most daring comics. After getting into hot water, he's taken refuge in Tel Aviv
A new museum is to be built at the site of the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine, where during two days some 34,000 Jews were murdered by German forces in 1941
![Billboards in Berlin with the inscription 'Du Jude' [“You’re a Jew” or “You Jew”] alongside pictures of an ostrich and a rag.](https://img.haarets.co.il/img/1.8268432/753958946.jpg?precrop=2232,1676,x77,y0&width=281&height=211 "Billboards in Berlin with the inscription 'Du Jude' [“You’re a Jew” or “You Jew”] alongside pictures of an ostrich and a rag. -")
Signs designed to fight anti-Semitism with the inscription 'Du Jude' alongside a picture of a rag and a bird with a large beak appear at first glance as demeaning
Files passed to Israeli law enforcement and obtained by Haaretz show how Aleksey Burkov's associates struck plea deals with U.S. authorities to hand over partners in cybercrime schemes
Ahmad Mansour is waging battles against the radicalization of young Muslim immigrants, and hatred of Israel, in his adoptive country of Germany
Aleksey Burkov was one of the world's 100 leading hackers, but he did it only for the money, Secret Service special agent says
He sat in prison undisturbed for years. But now, his fate has been tied to a woman he never met: Naama Issachar, the Israeli imprisoned by Russia for smuggling hashish
Aleksandra Brushtein's books, set in Czarist Russia, gained cult status among Soviet Jews
Likud’s attacks on the former defense minister are full of inaccuracies and backfire to hurt Netanyahu – but Yisrael Beiteinu is offering its own half-truths, and is losing younger voters
Russia’s only documentary theater tackles topics such as the sisters who killed their abusive father. Three members of Teatr.Doc talk to Haaretz
Series brings the 1986 nuclear disaster into focus, finally giving those who experienced it firsthand a chance to reflect
The veteran choir was back on stage just weeks after 65 of its members were killed in 2016. Ahead of its tour in Israel, the group's director reveals some of the secrets of its charm
New political issues have unhinged the worldview of the German radical left, which has become complex-ridden and divided
The work of Dmitry Markov documents the lives of the homeless, neglected children and alcoholics in remote parts of the country. In an interview he tells how photography saved him from hard drugs and why he still refuses to believe that Russia’s fate is already sealed
He’s the grandson of a senior figure in Spain’s Communist Party, was born with cerebral palsy, was kidnapped from his mother and sent to various institutions in Russia, married three times, has published acclaimed books and now lives in southern Israel. The saga of Ruben Gonzalez Gallego
Baking and eating a girl on her birthday, a man roasting meat over a bonfire of burning books – these are just two provocative scenes written by Vladimir Sorokin. Haaretz sits down with the author and talks sex, food and terrorism
In Chemnitz in the former East Germany, older residents speak wisftully of the days when there were fewer foreigners, while newcomers tell of harassment and violence
Lawyers for applicants rejected without clear explanations find it tough to challenge many of these cases legally, and accuse government agencies handling immigration of a lack of transparency
Immigration authority head: Child not being ‘expelled,’ but ‘a child does not confer status on his parents’
Media and social networks have been fanning a fiery debate about a major conflict at the foundation of Russian society: Chauvinism and patriarchy against sexual and intellectual liberation, and burning nationalism in the face of openness and curiosity
Abusive interrogators, prolonged incarceration in small cells and then expulsion. In recent years, thousands of would-be tourists from the former Soviet Union who tried to enter Israel have been sent home under humiliating conditions