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For 10 years, we’ve fought censorship to bring you the truth about Russia To celebrate this milestone, we’re sharing 20 things you probably didn’t know about Meduza

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How Russian propaganda and ordinary Americans build ‘bespoke realities’

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Denis Leontovich landed a government job in Russia, despite being openly gay. Then online harassment forced him to flee the country.

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This was Russia today, Monday, October 28, 2024 Russia captures center of Ukraine’s Selydove, an ATV accident puts a pro-war Telegram channel founder in a coma, and a new school hijab ban

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Dispatch from Issyk-Kul How nationalizing Kyrgyzstan’s largest gold mine won President Japarov the people’s support (for now)

1:01 pm, October 25, 2024

Meduza’s wishlist We’ve told the truth about Russia for 10 years. Help us ensure that’s just the beginning.

10:23 am, October 25, 2024

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Kremlin tells propagandists to promote anti-dollar BRICS payment system and push U.S. election conspiracy theories in latest media guidelines

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The U.S. just confirmed North Korean troops are in Russia. Here’s what that means for the war in Ukraine.

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Russia makes key gains on seven fronts as Ukraine suffers its hardest week on the battlefield this year

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Crowdsourcing Telegram ‘transparency reports’ to map the network’s claimed compliance with governments around the world

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Russia is putting pressure on women to boost the birth rate — but demographers say the main problem is too many people dying

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‘I hope she breaks free from the electoral fixation’: Russian public figures react to Yulia Navalnaya’s statement on future presidential run

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How Dagestan called Kadyrov’s bluff after his ‘blood feud’ threat against a billionaire lawmaker

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Leaked emails show how prison officials deliberately made Navalny’s life unbearable — and then tried to cover their tracks

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Think you know Russia? Take this quiz to test your knowledge. But brace yourself — it won’t be easy!

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Disappearing coast As the Baltic Sea erodes Latvia’s shoreline, locals grapple with what’s lost to the advancing tide

1:20 pm, October 18, 2024

Loans for scares In Georgia, a news network’s propagandistic turn and an alleged loansharking scheme lead back to the same London-based firm

12:53 pm, October 11, 2024

Horses, Hyundais, and headless rubber goats: A dispatch from the 5th World Nomad Games

2:09 pm, October 4, 2024

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The Beet: A new email dispatch from Meduza

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Women’s rights activists lead the charge in Armenia’s fight against domestic violence

1:38 pm, September 27, 2024

Scarred by Soviet-era nuclear testing, Kazakhstan is poised to embrace atomic energy — with help from Russia

4:16 pm, September 19, 2024

Builders in Solidarity A rambunctious Russian-speaking union shakes up Sweden’s labor movement

4:53 pm, August 16, 2024

The Naked Pravda

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North Korea's role in the Ukraine War

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Breaking down Russia's 2025 war budget

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25 days ago

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The North Caucasian clan warfare behind a deadly dispute at Wildberries, ‘Russia’s Amazon’

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America's expanding crackdown on RT and Moscow's covert influence operations

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Iranian ballistic missiles have entered the Ukraine War chat

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Meduza and the war

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If it’s a fight they want, it’s a fight they’ll get Meduza responds to the Russian authorities’ decision to outlaw our journalism

2 years ago

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Life after ‘undesirability’ Now that Meduza has been outlawed, these are the risks involved in reading and sharing our work from inside Russia

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Meduza is granting open access to all coverage of the war in Ukraine under a Creative Commons license You can reprint our articles about the conflict in full — anywhere you like

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The Beet: A new email dispatch from Meduza

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Наші серця — з Україною An appeal from Meduzaʼs newsroom to Ukrainian readers

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