stories‘Mocking Putin is tantamount to extremism’ Students at a grade school in Vologda are reported to the police after posting memes about teachers and Russia's president10 hours ago
Citing privacy concerns, federal censor blocks Alexey Navalny's online project to defeat United Russia in regional elections
A contractor accused of embezzling money from a Kremlin project says federal investigators robbed him
Moscow court sentences 77-year-old human rights icon to 25 days in jail for promoting an ‘unpermitted rally’ in support of youths charged with extremism
Russian businessman casually admits on Facebook that he didn't hire a qualified job applicant because the applicant was a woman
storiesRussia's Constitutional Court overturns a popular ruling by Ingushetia's Constitutional Court, ignoring one of the latter's main argumentsa day ago
like it or notRussian state TV pundit says he will stage rap festival at nudist beach in Crimea next yeara day ago
newsTwo Higher School of Economics professors explain how the Russian Constitution keeps democratization hopes alivea day ago
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newsThe Real Russia. Today. Lev Ponomaryov gets 25 days in jail, a St. Petersburg folklorist and anthropologist explains how he lost his job, and the spokesman for Russia's censor is off the hook
newsThe Real Russia. Today. Cutbacks erase jobs and childcare in remote Russian towns, a 10th grader's student union battle, and the post-Putin path to democracy
newsThe Real Russia. Today. Kiselyov raps on national TV, Frolov says Moscow screwed up at Kerch, and Latynina riffs on Korobov's lonely burial
stories‘I think there’s a list out there somewhere’ A prominent folklorist and anthropologist in St. Petersburg explains how he was fired and why Russia fears religious sects2 days ago
stories‘The principal tried to intimidate me with the psych ward’ A 10th grader in St. Petersburg talks about his uphill battle to form a student union3 days ago
storiesSuboptimal optimization Cutbacks to Russia's social spending are erasing jobs and childcare in remote towns4 days ago
like it or notChechnya’s ruler has a stable full of prize-winning race horses, but you’d never know it, looking at his income declarations7 days ago
news‘They denied everyone, little boys, little girls — it didn’t matter’ Meduza speaks to Russian citizens turned away at the Ukrainian border in Kyiv, immediately after the government’s entry ban7 days ago
storiesPolice seize ‘International Tolerance Day’ drawings from Russian grade school, after news outlet calls them ‘gay propaganda’8 days ago
like it or notRussian musicians are being forced to cancel their concerts across the country, which makes now the perfect time to listen to their music7 days ago
storiesThey say Russia's crackdown on hip hop concerts today is like something from the USSR. Is that true? Meduza speaks to two Soviet rock musicians about KGB blacklists9 days ago
newsRussian state TV anchor's British citizenship makes his government ‘public council’ memberships illegal9 days ago
like it or notRussian lawmakers were supposed to spend this week with constituents, but the Duma's deputy speaker decided to make love to Miami, instead8 days ago
storiesUntil earlier this month, a health clinic in Moscow was offering clitorectomies on religious grounds to girls as young a five10 days ago
stories‘Brush your teeth, go to work, and in the evening you take an HIV test’ Russia's Health Ministry has been paying millions of dollars to a group of curiously connected former TV marketers to create PSAs16 days ago
newsWhat we know about the sailors wounded when Russia seized three Ukrainian ships on Sunday11 days ago
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newsThe Real Russia. Today. The Kremlin's Telegram takeover, Russia's hip hop crackdown in context, and Navalny's ‘Smart Vote’ system
newsThe Real Russia. Today. Clitorectomies in Moscow, Ukrainian sailors under arrest, and the interrogation of Kashin's attacker
newsThe Real Russia. Today. Russia captures three Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea, Roskomnadzor sues Google, and the Kremlin frees a rapper
newsMoscow accuses Bill Browder of poisoning Sergey Magnitsky, as Russia is expected to win Interpol's next presidency18 days ago
storiesEuropean Court of Human Rights acknowledges that Russia persecuted Alexey Navalny for political reasons. Rulings like this one are very rare.22 days ago
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like it or notSiberia's hip hop concerts are in jeopardy, as parent groups discover the genre's fascination with sex and drugs23 days ago
storiesFive reasons why Russians just donated 25.4 million rubles to save an independent news magazine24 days ago
like it or notRyan Gosling's fans in Siberia take him on a birthday tour of their city. (They dressed his plastic cut-out in a fur coat and scarf.)24 days ago
storiesDozens of construction workers at a Russian military installation outside Kamchatka have been threatened and marooned without paya month ago
storiesTwo countries, one island Russia and China divided up an island in the Far East in 2004, and here's how life there has changeda month ago