Vladimir Sevrinovsky

Vladimir Sevrinovsky is a freelance contributor to RFE/RL's Russian Service. In 2011, he left a successful career in business to become a traveler and freelance journalist. He has traveled across the Russian Federation and has written dozens of award-winning articles, many illustrated with his own photographs. In recent years, he has been focusing on documentary film production and has cooperated with television companies in Switzerland, Great Britain, France, and Germany.

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January 11, 2024
'Bring Our Husbands Back Home': Russian Women Call For Soldiers To Be Pulled From Ukraine

After Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a "partial mobilization" in fall 2022, over 300,000 reservists were drafted into the war in Ukraine. A year later, women formed The Way Home initiative to demand that their family members be discharged and sent back home.
September 20, 2022
Buryatia's Bone Breakers Get A Crack At Big-Time Competition

In Siberia, a sport of the Buryat people that involves breaking the bones of dead animals has been accepted as part of the World Nomad Games. According to Buryat tradition, the spirit of an animal lives in the spine, and by breaking it, a person helps the soul to be reborn faster.
July 20, 2022
Missing In Action: A Russian Soldier's Mother Desperately Seeks Answers

Olga Sidorenko was born in Kharkiv in the Soviet era but moved to Russia 25 years ago and raised two sons there. One of them is a Russian soldier who went missing in the Kharkiv region, in eastern Ukraine, on March 16. Sidorenko also has a stepson in a government-controlled area of Ukraine.
February 04, 2022
The Chechen Telegram Channel That Has Gotten Under Kadyrov's Skin

In recent weeks, the authorities in Chechnya have carried out a wave of abductions of relatives of opposition bloggers and activists. Kremlin-installed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's opponents attribute the crackdown to the growing popularity and influence of the Telegram channel 1ADAT.
April 15, 2019
'The First Furrow:' Daghestan's Spring Festival

The holiday of the first furrow is celebrated with races, songs, and dances by the people of western and central Daghestan -- Avars, Dargins and Laks. It marks the time when the spring warmth comes and the soil is ready for sowing
January 17, 2019
Georgians, God, and Grapes: Life In South Ossetia

Ethnic Georgians and Ossetians have lived side-by-side for centuries in South Ossetia. Their cultures are similar, and both value hospitality and share a love of long feasts.

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Vladimir Sevrinovsky

Also by Vladimir Sevrinovsky

'Bring Our Husbands Back Home': Russian Women Call For Soldiers To Be Pulled From Ukraine

Buryatia's Bone Breakers Get A Crack At Big-Time Competition

Missing In Action: A Russian Soldier's Mother Desperately Seeks Answers

The Chechen Telegram Channel That Has Gotten Under Kadyrov's Skin

'The First Furrow:' Daghestan's Spring Festival

Georgians, God, and Grapes: Life In South Ossetia