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Ministry of Justice designates musician Maksim Pokrovsky a “foreign agent”

Ahead of spring military draft, Russian state bureaucracy portal stops letting users delete their data

Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation blacklists Alfa Group partners it previously sought to extricate from sanctions

‘We won’t stop at anything’: Lukashenko promises to deploy strategic nuclear weapons ‘if need be’

Russian authorities hit two officers with felony charges for allegedly failing to prevent Ukrainian missile strike

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Meduza is collecting letters for Evan Gershkovich The Russian authorities, who claim The Wall Street Journal reporter was ‘engaged in espionage,’ are holding him in a Moscow detention center

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Hunting down the haters How Rostec, the Russian military’s industrial supplier, waged a PR war on Telegram

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Rostec’s PR war on Telegram

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365 days as a free Ukrainian city again President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bucha to commemorate the anniversary of its liberation and to honor the victims of war crimes

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FSB arrests Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Yekaterinburg

2 days ago

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A border deal washed in tears Kyrgyzstan reached a landmark agreement with Uzbekistan, but its critics are behind bars

2:37 pm, March 30, 2023

The arrest of Alexey Moskalev

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‘The command came from the top’ Alexey Moskalev, whose daughter’s anti-war drawing sparked the ire of the Russian authorities, has been arrested in Minsk. Here’s what we know.

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‘He was saving himself from a fascist law’ Meduza’s interview with lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov, who stayed in contact with Alexey Moskalev as he fled house arrest for Belarus

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‘Everything will be okay, and we’ll be together’ Masha Moskaleva, the Russian middle-schooler whose anti-war drawing provoked a police backlash that landed her in an orphanage, wrote a letter to her father on the day of his prison sentencing

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‘The FSB said I’m raising my daughter wrong’ A single father faces felony charges after his daughter drew an anti-war picture at school

a month ago

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‘He stalked and terrorized her’ A Moscow journalist was charged with killing her abusive ex-husband. Now she could lose custody of her sons.

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‘Just the latest escalation’ Nuclear policy expert Maxim Starchak discusses Putin’s decision to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus

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‘Now there’s just emptiness’ Residents of Dnipro’s 118 Victory Embankment apartment complex recall the airstrike that killed dozens of their neighbors

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Sources tell Forbes Russia that VK server expansion could herald YouTube ban

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‘Armed to the teeth’ Who runs — and who funds — a new private military company in annexed Crimea?

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‘Of course there are threats’ Putin: Russia has three times as many tanks as Ukraine, ten times the aircraft, and will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

6 days ago

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‘Our newsroom turned into a cult’ How a ‘liberal’ Telegram channel began peddling Kremlin disinformation to 1.6 million people

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The Russian military’s growing discipline problems

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‘Pure looting, thievery, and banditry’ Russia has seized roughly 1,000 businesses in Ukraine’s annexed regions, new investigation finds

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No to war-themed commercial branding The likes of Heroic Bucha Kombucha, Azovstal radish varietal, and Heroes Don’t Die beer may have to leave the market as Ukraine’s legislators seek a ban

8 days ago

The ICC’s arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin

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Putin the suspect The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Russia’s president

14 days ago

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‘Like a slap in the face’ How the ICC’s arrest warrant for Putin left Russia’s top officials shaken

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‘Just call me Masha’ The International Criminal Court issued warrants for the arrest of Putin and one of his appointees, Maria Lvova-Belova. She’s clearly no ordinary mom of 22.

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Caught off guard How the ICC’s arrest warrant for Putin threw a wrench in the Kremlin’s plans for 2023

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One year of full-scale war

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Will the war in Ukraine end in year two? Halting Russia’s invasion before 2024 is possible, but only if the West learns to be bolder and more decisive

25 days ago

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‘Russia ends nowhere,’ they say Sociologist Grigory Yudin discusses a year of war and what comes next

a month ago

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Dispatch from Dnipro How ‘Ukraine’s outpost’ and its people are faring after one year of all-out war

5:53 pm, February 23, 2023

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Ukraine under siege A chronicle of 2022 in photos and combat footage

6:30 pm, February 24, 2023

The Beet

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The Beet: A new email dispatch from Meduza

6 months ago

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Startup revolution Can Central Asia reap the rewards of Russia’s IT exodus?

3:13 pm, March 16, 2023

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‘Invisible’ migrants Ukrainian refugees in Poland brace themselves for a long war

7:43 pm, March 9, 2023

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Living in limbo The Lachin Corridor blockade has upended daily life in Nagorno-Karabakh — and there’s no end in sight

3:01 pm, March 2, 2023

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Bloody 2022 How Kazakhstani journalists went from covering a national uprising to reporting on Russia’s war against Ukraine

2:18 pm, February 9, 2023

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To the Viktor goes the oil Hungary’s government appears set on maintaining its cozy relationship with Moscow. But at what cost?

1:37 pm, February 3, 2023

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Russian influence in Hungary

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The Russian military’s growing discipline problems

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Imaginary wives, seized children, Wagner Group's Pornhub campaign

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Russian youth culture and subcultures

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What the hell is Russia’s Wagner Group?

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Russian influence in Hungary

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Russia’s wartime emigration sparks a ‘reckoning’ in Central Asia

Wagner Group

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The ‘cannon fodder’ advantage Why Wagner Group is more effective on the battlefield than the Russian military

9 days ago

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‘We forced these lowlifes to give in’ Evgeny Prigozhin flouts local ban on Wagner funerals and threatens the mayor responsible

12 days ago

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‘Now I can feel like a real man’ After six months with Wagner Group, a Russian man who murdered his girlfriend’s mother is free and back home

2 months ago

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‘Wagner opened the door for me’ How a convicted murderer became a decorated ‘war hero’ in Russia

6:16 pm, January 24, 2023

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 months 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

a year ago

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The Beet: A new email dispatch from Meduza

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