International Archives

The Tradwife: The Kitchen Is the Front Line

In authoritarian regimes, the “tradwife” trend is more than just a social media aesthetic: Behind the idyllic family scenes and dough-kneading lies a low-cost propaganda strategy that portrays submission as a free choice.

International

Terrorizing the Indigenous: Russian Repression Against Its Own Nations

Russia’s Indigenous communities live on territories rich in oil, gas, and other natural resources, but their legal power to protect those lands has steadily disappeared. Those who resist industrial expansion and defend Indigenous rights are increasingly treated as threats to state security.

International

What we miss when we say “the Kurds”

Kurdish identity is often treated as one thing. In reality, like many other national and ethnic identities, it is shaped by borders, languages, religions, regions, parties, memories and competing political dreams.

International

The Ideal Woman: How autocrats built the archetype.

Women in autocracies often seem like the regime’s showcase figures. Whether it is patriotic breast implants or pastel dresses as a sign of evangelical modesty, their appearance conveys political messages that can hardly be stated openly. A text about female power in the service of unfreedom.

International

Nowhere to Exist: Queer and Trans Afghans on The Move

An Escape is meant to bring people from danger to safety. For queer and trans Afghans, however, it does not. Instead, it leads them from Taliban rule to familial control, to regional deportation regimes, to bureaucratic indifference—a chain without any moment of arrival.

Europe

Discover How Drought is Affecting your Region

An analysis by CORRECTIV.Europe reveals for the first time how widespread drought has become across Europe. Two-thirds of all regions have recorded severe drought years since 2012.

Europe

Made in Moscow: The Foreign Agent Law as a Blueprint for Autocrats

It is not a secret weapon or a military tactic. It is a law — bureaucratic, dull, and devastatingly effective. Russia’s 2012 foreign agent legislation gave autocrats everywhere a template for dismantling civil society while keeping their hands seemingly clean.

Europe

The Oligarch-Autocrat Alliances

Democracy is not dying by sudden coup – it is being dismantled through the law itself, using a shared playbook refined across continents.

Europe

Learning to Backslide: How Autocrats Share Money, Methods, and Models

Democracy is not dying by sudden coup – it is being dismantled through the law itself, using a shared playbook refined across continents.

Europe

Azerbaijan: The Price of Victory and the Silence of Dissent

In this article series, we take a second look at current events in countries that often remain only briefly spotlighted in German reporting. Together with local experts, we ask: What political and social developments lie behind the current events that we see in the news? What does this mean for democracy and media freedom? With our exile expertise, we want to reveal global connections and understand what we can learn from this for free, democratic coexistence. In this episode, Azerbaijani journalist Fatima Karimova writes about the repression of media workers in her homeland and why the European Union repeatedly turns a blind eye to it.

Demolition Atlas Europe

„White Gold“: Debris and Deception

Crooked deals with waste are just as lucrative to drug deals – only easier to conceal. An investigation by CORRECTIV.Europe shows how two companies from Germany and Czechia are making hundreds of thousands of tonnes of debris disappear just behind the border.

Europe

Where Europe is Dumping its Problematic Waste

In the middle of Europe, a contaminated legacy of the Soviet nuclear program has turned into a lucrative opportunity for the waste industry. Our investigation reveals that companies continue to dump millions of tons of old tyres, shoes, and even hazardous waste.