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Wildberries and Ozon, two of Russia’s largest online marketplaces, wrote sellers out of compensation for war damage
Photos and videos show the aftermath of Ukrainian drone strikes that killed eight night-shift workers at online retailer Wildberries’ warehouses in Russia
50B rubles in damage, up to 15% of its warehouse space, and a contract clause that shifts the loss onto small vendors: inside Ukraine’s strike on Russia’s online retail giant, Wildberries
Wildberries, Russia’s online marketplace, says it will compensate sellers for drone-destroyed goods but hasn’t said how much
FT and Meduza: Zelensky weighs firing top general Oleksandr Syrsky amid protests over ousted defense minister
Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, may have lost the use of 10–15% of its warehouse space to Ukrainian drone strikes, source tells The Bell
Women on Russia’s military rolls are being summoned to enlistment offices in large numbers, and some are receiving unlawful summonses to reserve training. Here are their options.
From Lviv to Kharkiv, Ukrainians were back in the streets on Friday for a second straight day, demanding the return of their ousted defense minister
‘Why do ministers get rotated more than soldiers?’ Kyiv protesters ask, after Zelensky pushes out the defense minister they didn’t want to lose
Russians detained for reading the Bible at Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia mosque are now back in Russia
Are nesting dolls and kokoshnik headdresses even Russian? A former Pushkin Museum director’s answer just got her reported to prosecutors.
Russia proposes letting people accused or convicted of gang activity, nuclear materials theft, and state-secrets offenses enlist in the military
Zelensky honored the unit tied to a massacre of Polish and Ukrainian civilians. Now he’s opening the archives on it.
Russia bans a voter-rights group that doesn’t technically exist
After a (now formerly) pro-Kremlin blogger criticized Putin in March, he spent a month in a psychiatric hospital. Now he faces two more months in pretrial detention.
Court fines Boris Nadezhdin, the antiwar politician who tried to challenge Putin in Russia’s 2024 presidential race, over a Navalny photo
Ilya Remeslo, the informant who helped put Navalny in legal jeopardy, just learned what it costs to call Putin a war criminal
Russian singer Grigory Leps, sanctioned by the European Union over his support for Russia’s war in Ukraine, apologizes for dismissive remarks about Russian family incomes
What did Russia’s last severe fuel crisis look like? Rewind to the 1990s, the decade Putin calls ‘hungry, cold, and hopeless.’
He was supposed to fund Russia’s drive to replace Western imports. So how did an adult-diaper factory end up losing 50 million rubles?