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Trump says Putin and Zelensky don’t need to meet face to face to reach a peace deal
Poland orders four Russians and 11 Belarusians to leave after they enter on tourist visas, apparently hoping to compete at a world karate championship
Moscow is losing the landmarks of its post-Soviet cultural life. Meduza revisits the nightclubs, bookstores, cafes, and markets that helped define an era.
Can Japan succeed where a Russian space mission failed? Tokyo’s new probe aims to bring home soil from Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons.
Andrei Melnikov headed Russia’s agency tasked with protecting bank depositors. Now he’s been sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for a 4 billion-ruble fraud.
NYT: Trump’s envoys plan to meet Putin in St. Petersburg on Wednesday and seek the release of an American held in Russia
Russia plans four new deputy prime ministers as Finance Minister Anton Siluanov gains influence and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin loses a close aide
Russian scientists and university staff face mounting prosecutions over years-old donations to Navalny’s anti-corruption group. More than 10 cases reached Moscow courts in six months.
European Parliament Vice President Pina Picierno announces hunger strike to draw international attention to civilians trapped in Russian-occupied Oleshky, Ukraine
Most Kyiv residents face scheduled power outages amid Russian attacks. The building where Mayor Vitali Klitschko owns an apartment is exempt, investigative journalists find.
Russian lawmakers want to triple prison terms for online ‘calls to riot’ to keep ‘foreign agents’ and Russians abroad from ‘provoking’ unrest
Europe is preparing for direct talks with Putin, FT reports. One possible proposal: Russia gets Donbas, Ukraine gets NATO membership.
Twelve years later, we’re still making trouble
An anniversary note about exile, censorship, and the next birthday we hope to reach
South Korea to cut embassy staff in Kyiv after recalling ambassador amid dispute over North Korean POWs
Russian rapper Navai released from jail and deported from Kazakhstan after drug smuggling case dropped
Ukrainian drones strike Russia’s Tambov region, reportedly hitting infrastructure on Druzhba oil pipeline
Zelensky accuses U.S. of deliberately delaying Patriot missile deliveries
Russian retailers seek emergency operating rules for outages following data center attacks, plus permission to store data in ‘friendly’ countries
Reuters: Trump envoy Steve Witkoff plans to attend Ukraine peace talks with Zelensky in Norway and meet Putin in Russia
Statue of Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn removed from waterfront in Vladivostok, Russia, for relocation to a park