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‘Ecocide’ in southern Ukraine The Dnipro River’s water level is rising after a major dam was destroyed near Kherson. Here’s what we know.

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Seeing is believing A close reading of combat videos from Velyka Novosilka suggests a possible course for the impending Ukrainian counteroffensive. But it can all change, and quickly.

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Stretching Russian forces thin Ukraine prepares for a counteroffensive, trying to tax Russian reserves in Bakhmut and at the Belgorod border. Meduza’s updated combat map.

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An Arctic welcome Russia’s orphan listings have abruptly increased in number. In their midst, Ukrainian children are listed for adoption, too. Some have already been placed with families in the Russian Far North.

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‘The day will come when speaking the truth is ordinary in Russia’ On his birthday, Navalny sent a message to his supporters and fellow political prisoners. Meduza is sharing his remarks in full in English.

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Dogged and determined reporters: How journalism persists in Turkmenistan

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Chaos in Shebekino What we know about the latest raid into Russia’s Belgorod region by pro-Ukrainian militias

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Russian propaganda attempts a YouTube reboot The hosts of ‘Z-Girlfriends’ want fellow women to work their femininity harder for the cause

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‘Minor damage’ The aftermath of the the drone strikes on Moscow. In photos.

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Drone attack in Moscow and the Moscow region Eyewitness footage

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We demand the immediate release of our colleague Evan Gershkovich A letter from journalists and media professionals

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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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‘Just the tip of the iceberg’ How Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary fighters steal cryptocurrency through Ukrainian charity sites — and use it to fund the war

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‘You really are a terrorist’ How Russia’s FSB recruits former ISIS fighters — and tries to plant them in Ukrainian battalions

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Dying to kill The Russian neo-Nazis fighting Vladimir Putin’s war to ‘denazify’ Ukraine

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‘We got married to visit each other in prison’ Svetlana Petriychuk has been jailed for her play about Russian women who convert to radical Islam. Her husband, theater director Yury Shekhvatov, spoke to Meduza the day after her arrest.

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‘Justifying terrorism’ through theater The award-winning play that led to the arrest of two prominent Russian artists

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‘Bright Falcon’ behind bars A new political trial targets theater director Zhenya Berkovich and prize-winning playwright Svetlana Petriychuk

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‘A suicide mission’ Anti-war activists explain the challenges of protesting in Azerbaijan

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The ballot of Mirziyoyev In Uzbekistan, an old power play gives the president a new start

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Dispatch from Vahdat In Tajikistan, Afghan refugees dream of starting fresh in Canada

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The art of decolonization How Eastern European art became the latest battlefront in countering Russian imperialism

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Azovstal: A history Journalist Konstantin Skorkin tells the story of the steelworks that lay at the heart of Mariupol life

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Kaliningrad: An imperial gem and a thorn in everyone’s side

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

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Ukraine’s fight inside Russia, behind enemy lines

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How the Putin regime uses the memory of WWII

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Bruised kidneys and chemical burns How Wagner Group spent hours torturing a Russian soldier they mistook for a Ukrainian spy

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It’s not just Wagner At least three Gazprom-linked private military companies now have fighters in Ukraine

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‘Security forces will put a stop to it’ Meduza’s sources say the Kremlin is losing patience with Evgeny Prigozhin’s outbursts

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

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‘Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where’s the fucking ammo?’ Evgeny Prigozhin’s obscene tirade blames top military officials for the mercenary cartel’s ‘senseless losses’

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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

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

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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

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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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