Ukraine strikes Yandex data center in Russia, sparking fire
https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/08/ukraine-strikes-yandex-data-center-in-russia-sparking-fire
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Ukraine strikes Yandex data center in Russia, sparking fire
https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/08/ukraine-strikes-yandex-data-center-in-russia-sparking-fire
Ukrainian drones strike oil refinery in Russia’s Bashkortostan
https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/08/ukrainian-drones-strike-oil-refinery-in-russia-s-bashkortostan
Latvian court sentences woman to six years in prison over €43 transfer investigators say was intended for drone-jamming equipment for Russian troops
Germany’s far-right AfD and left-wing populist BSW party now hold a majority in an eastern state parliament. Their first joint proposal: End aid to Ukraine and restore ties with Russia.
Le Monde: German retailer Metro asks Kremlin to place its Russian assets under temporary management
Russia’s post-election utility hikes push annual inflation above the central bank’s 2026 forecast range
Three years since October 7: Israelis tell Meduza how the worst terrorist attack in their country’s history changed them and the world around them
Kirill Gasilin, whose distinctive cuts and colors helped shape contemporary Russian fashion, dies at 47
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder visits Moscow and meets Globus employees after becoming head of the hypermarket chain’s supervisory board
In 2024, Vladimir Putin lost a polling station in this Siberian science district. Last month, three local precincts bucked national voting trends again. Why?
EU ambassadors agree to largest-ever expansion of Russia sanctions list, targeting more than 1,500 people and organizations
Russian court fines rock musician Boris Grebenshchikov 15,000 rubles for giving an interview to Meduza
The world is talking about a possible plague outbreak in Russia, and Trump even plans to call Putin about it. Is it really that serious?
Putin turns 74 today. Officials and kindergarteners across Russia were forced to wish him a happy birthday.
Russia decided to increase war spending after Putin’s meeting with Trump in Alaska, Bloomberg reports
‘Anya was waiting for a bullet in the back’: Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya exposed torture and war crimes in Chechnya. Twenty years after her murder, her close friend’s daughter remembers her.
Russian missile strike on apartment building in Ukraine kills 14, including four children. Zelensky calls it the Russian army’s ‘birthday gift’ to Putin.
A Russian man swam to Lithuania to seek asylum. He was sent back to Russia, where he was sentenced to six years in prison.
Oil tanker burns off Russia’s Sochi after naval drone attack, sending smoke billowing over the coast. Photos and videos.
Latvia’s Foreign Ministry reportedly moves to declare Russian journalist Leonid Ragozin persona non grata
Lida Moniava to remain director of children’s hospice after Russia drops charges over anti-war post
Russia to videotape driving tests and photograph candidates
https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/07/russia-to-videotape-driving-tests-and-photograph-candidates
Trump says he’ll call Putin about suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine kill six and injure more than 20
How a 1965 Moscow protest demanding that the Soviet government obey its own laws helped launch the USSR’s dissident movement
How a Soviet physicist’s 1960 idea led to the birth of neutrino astronomy and this year’s Nobel Prize in physics
Russian student gets 19 years for plotting mosque attack. His father says officers tortured him for refusing to surrender his iPhone passcode.
Latvian officials say armed masked men threatened troops while trying to push 20 migrants across from Belarus, then crossed into Latvia themselves and stole surveillance cameras
Andrei Rublev’s ‘Trinity’ icon returned to Russia’s Trinity Lavra after repairs to climate-controlled display
Another Russian refinery goes offline: Volgograd plant shuts down completely after Ukrainian drone attack, Reuters reports
Moscow plans to link two of its main rail terminals under a vast glass canopy. Preservationists fear Yaroslavsky Station’s Soviet architecture could disappear in the process.
Drones attack civilian ships off Bulgaria for first time, sinking one
Berlin police detain leader of Russian art group ‘Voina’ Oleg Vorotnikov and his son
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Denied asylum in the U.S., imprisoned in Russia. Activist Leonid Melekhin gets 6 years for ‘justifying terrorism.’
An activist challenged Russian officials after they blocked his protest against election fraud. Now he’s been jailed on drug charges and accused of ‘involvement in a Ukrainian armed group.’
Russia strikes Ukraine’s Kharkiv, killing three and injuring more than 30