#meduza — Public Fediverse posts
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Russian guard and inmate killed aboard train carrying prisoners. Reports conflict over alleged riot.
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Canadian who moved his family to Russia for ‘traditional values’ says he no longer recommends it: permanent residency would require signing a Defense Ministry contract
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Russian-speaking Latvians who back Ukraine and value their language are heading into an election without an obvious political home
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G7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel from strategic reserves
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The New York Times obtains a purported Russian plan to cripple Ukraine’s power grid, including by cutting electricity and heat supplies to three major cities by 90%
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Parliamentary government and political competition are the oldest traditions in Russian politics. Where did they come from, and why did they disappear? Writer Mikhail Zygar explains in a new film.
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Russia decided to increase planned war spending for 2027 in response to Ukrainian strikes on refineries and warehouses, the newsletter Vlast reports
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Boris Nemtsov’s daughter is now a ‘foreign agent’ in Russia. So are social media accounts run by Alexey Navalny’s team.
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Russian political researcher Alexander Finiarel has lived in Spain without papers for two years. But soon he (and half a million other refugees) will be able to get documents. This is his story.
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Russian supermarket workers say they were fired over a viral reel about post-election grocery price hikes
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The Telegraph identifies Russian biker Oleg Levushkin as suspected organizer of Leipzig airport sabotage. It links the operation to a GRU unit whose officers are accused in the Skripal poisoning.
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The U.S. seized $5.4 million from ‘Orthodox oligarch’ Konstantin Malofeyev and sent it to support Ukrainian veterans. Russia has now opened a criminal case over the confiscation.
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Hospital in Russia’s Irkutsk region quarantined amid reports that a patient died of pneumonic plague
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A Ukrainian grandmother came to Kazakhstan to collect her grandson. Instead, she was detained at Russia’s request.
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Russian ‘anti-feminist’ blogger Alexey Podnebesny is sentenced to three years for indecent acts with a 15-year-old girl
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Zelensky says Putin ordered Russia’s military chiefs to abandon rules of war in airstrikes on Ukraine
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German retailer Globus stayed in Russia after the full-scale invasion. Now its Russian arm has put former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder on its supervisory board.
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Five years under the Taliban: Meduza reports from Afghanistan, where a war on drugs and greater security have come with mass poverty, unemployment, and the loss of women’s rights
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Russia sentences founder of exile news outlet Astra to seven years in absentia. Her lawyers say she was convicted of violating ‘foreign agent’ regulations despite never being designated one.
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Fire guts historic Miller Mansion near St. Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg
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Russian drones strike Kyiv’s Southern Bridge three times in several hours. Traffic restrictions spread to two other Dnipro crossings.
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Ukrainian drone attacks hit Volgograd and Samara, setting a refinery and a major oil tank farm on fire
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Finland’s prime minister says ‘foreign forces’ could be behind a string of intrusions at lawmakers’ homes
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U.S. designates Russia-linked sanctions-evasion payment network A7 a ‘significant transnational criminal organization’
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How Vyacheslav Volodin secured a record third term as speaker of Russia’s State Duma — and why Putin keeps him there
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By Putin’s own estimate, Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries have cost Russia 1% of GDP. But he says stopping them isn’t worth halting attacks on Ukrainian vessels.
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Major fire breaks out at historic St. Petersburg mansion slated for conversion into luxury housing
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Latvia bans its public broadcaster from producing regular Russian-language content (except during emergencies)
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Explosions at chemical plant in Moscow region reportedly kill seven, force evacuation of more than 40 people
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Putin bans taking more than one million rubles in cash from Russia to Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and four other countries. What if you need to take more?
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Money transfers between Russia and Kazakhstan fall nearly 12-fold after EU sanctions on Zolotaya Korona payment service
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Russia threatens NATO with a nuclear strike if the alliance tries to blockade Kaliningrad
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The Kremlin says it can’t discuss sanctions relief for freeing ‘political prisoners’ because Russia has none. The human rights group Memorial lists 1,368.
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Russian police reportedly investigate organizer of canceled Kanye West concerts in St. Petersburg for possible fraud
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Russia agrees to share data on ‘extremists’ and ‘terrorists’ with five former Soviet states. Its own terrorism and extremism registry now tops 23,000 names.
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Proekt investigation finds that Putin’s reported partner Alina Kabaeva accompanied him to Kazakhstan in 2017