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Megamarket, the Sberbank-owned online marketplace, has amended its seller agreement to shield itself from liability for failing to meet its obligations during drone attacks, the Telegram channel Mozhem Obyasnit said.

Montenegro’s government has published draft amendments to its visa regulations. The organization Kovcheg flagged the document.

A French security source told AFP that the Russian disinformation network “Storm-1516” targeted former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, one of the declared candidates for the French presidency, as part of an effort to interfere in France’s presidential election.

Russia’s air defenses shot down 571 Ukrainian drones overnight on July 24 over 15 regions of Russia, occupied Crimea, and the Sea of Azov and Black Sea, the Defense Ministry reported.

FBI Director Kash Patel is planning to travel to Russia in mid-October 2026, Politico reported, citing sources.

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France has granted political asylum to Alexei Moskalev and his daughter, Masha, according to inTransit, the human rights group that assisted the family.

France has granted political asylum to Alexei Moskalev and his daughter, Masha, according to inTransit, the human rights group that assisted the family.

Russia will require migrants to buy mobile phones so authorities can track their whereabouts, Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov said, according to the Russian business news outlet RBC:

Russia will require migrants to buy mobile phones so authorities can track their whereabouts, Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov said, according to the Russian business news outlet RBC:

Russia will require migrants to buy mobile phones so authorities can track their whereabouts, Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov said, according to the Russian business news outlet RBC:

Fines issued to Russian drivers for parking and stopping violations while they waited in line for gasoline will be canceled, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said.

Fines issued to Russian drivers for parking and stopping violations while they waited in line for gasoline will be canceled, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said.

Since spring 2026, the video game Drone Battle: Ukraine has been heavily promoted on social media and by bloggers. According to T-invariant, the management of the Alabuga Special Economic Zone uses the game to recruit students to assemble drones.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to journalists on Thursday in Kyiv, standing amid rubble from overnight Russian strikes on the city. At least 22 people were killed and dozens more wounded, according to Ukrainian officials, with the death toll expected to rise. NovynyLIVE, a Ukrainian news outlet, published several videos of Zelensky’s remarks on Telegram. Meduza transcribed and translated them below.

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Messages reading “MOSCOW WILL BURN” appeared in the Telegram channel of Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin on the evening of June 21, along with links to fundraisers for Ukrainian military drones.

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The commander of the 5th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade (formerly the Oplot Battalion), Colonel Ramil Faskhutdinov, has been named a Hero of Russia, the Defense Ministry announced.

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Unpaid wages across Russia reached 2.9 billion rubles in late April — up 750 million rubles (35.2%) from March, according to Rosstat data published on May 27. Compared with April 2025, the debt has grown by nearly 1.4 billion rubles, a 94.3% increase.

Otherwise, if you will excuse me, consider this joke: A patient comes to the doctor and says, ‘Doctor, I have a complaint: when I have sex, there’s a whistling in my ears.’ ‘How old are you?’ the doctor asks. ‘80,’ the pensioner replies. ‘And what were you expecting — applause?

A committee of Russia’s State Duma has recommended advancing a bill that would make Russian citizens liable for “committing offenses against Russia’s interests abroad.”

A State Duma deputy from the Novosibirsk region representing Russia’s Communist Party (KPRF) said Russia must bring the war in Ukraine to “the swiftest possible end” because the country’s economy “won’t survive a prolonged special military operation.” The deputy, Renat Suleymanov, made the remarks in an interview with the Novosibirsk-based news outlet Kontinent Sibiri.

Maternity Hospital No. 2 in Vladikavkaz marked May 9 by dressing newborns in military caps and pinning St. George’s ribbons to them.

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A 55-year-old man suspected of orchestrating a double murder plot in Lithuania has been arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece, the Lithuanian news outlet Delfi reported.

Websites and apps belonging to banks, telecom operators, satellite companies, and other organizations in Russia went down on the evening of April 6, according to posts on the Telegram channel of the Russian outage-tracking service Sboi.rf (Outage.ru). The cause of the disruptions was not immediately known.

Russia’s Digital Development Ministry has asked the country’s largest online platforms to block access for users with active VPNs by April 15, sources told the Russian business outlet RBC.

Belarus’s parliament has passed a law imposing administrative fines for the “propaganda of homosexual relations, sex changes, childlessness, and pedophilia,” the Belarusian state news agency Belta reported on April 2. The changes were introduced as amendments to the country’s administrative liability codes.

Moldova’s parliament voted Thursday to denounce key agreements with the Commonwealth of Independent States, clearing the way for the country to withdraw from the organization. Sixty of the 101 lawmakers voted in favor, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.

Moldova’s parliament voted Thursday to denounce key agreements with the Commonwealth of Independent States, clearing the way for the country to withdraw from the organization. Sixty of the 101 lawmakers voted in favor, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.

Any military requires a lot of trucks to supply the front. So the biggest Russian truck maker cutting production is quite intressting.

In February 2022, Konstantin Efremov, a Russian military officer from the Republic of North Ossetia, was deployed as part of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Three months later, he quit the military, left the country, and went public with what he had seen on the front line. In interviews, Efremov spoke about Russian troops torturing Ukrainian POWs, abusing civilians, and mistreating their own soldiers who refused to fight.

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The Russian Orthodox Church’s exarchate in Africa is involved in a scheme recruiting Kenyan citizens to fight in Ukraine, according to journalist Ksenia Luchenko, who covers the Russian Orthodox Church, and the independent investigative outlet iStories, which highlighted a mid-February report by Religion News Service.

”The Temple of War: People and Ideas That Made the Russian Invasion Possible,” by historian Ilia Venyavkin, profiles the figures who helped Vladimir Putin prime Russians for the attack on Ukraine. Venyavkin cites a visit to the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces in Patriot Park as a primary catalyst for the book. The cathedral, as Venyavkin writes in the preface, was built on Putin’s orders but “had been developing in Russian political culture for many years.” The historian draws a parallel to the Russian–Ukrainian war: Putin personally gave the order for the invasion, but the heroes of Moscow’s “Temple of War” — from Army General Sergey Surovikin to RT propagandist Margarita Simonyan — manufactured the public consent that made it possible.

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One of the biggest concerns for Russians at the start of this year is the rapid rise in the cost of basic necessities. Across the country, prices for vegetables, fruit, meat, dairy products, pet food, and other everyday goods have climbed sharply.

Konstantin Malofeev, the Russian far-right media oligarch whose Orthodox Christian news network Tsargrad TV promotes ultranationalist and monarchist ideas, is set to become a lecturer at the prestigious Moscow State University (MSU), a source at the school told Meduza.

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In a post published in a closed NS/WP Telegram channel on January 18, the group said that “certain enterprising individuals” had destroyed the plaque on the apartment building where Politkovskaya was killed. The post described the act as a “tribute” from NS/WP to its “glorious predecessors” from the neo-Nazi group BORN (the Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists).

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In December, Russia’s State Duma passed a law allowing clear-cut logging in Lake Baikal’s Central Ecological Zone, a move swiftly approved by the Federation Council and signed by Vladimir Putin. Although the legislation — set to take effect on March 1, 2026 — permits such logging only under specific conditions, environmentalists and activists have no doubt that officials and businessmen with a stake in the region will have little trouble securing the necessary approvals. And they warn that the consequences for the lake and its unique flora and fauna could be irreversible.

In December, Russia’s State Duma passed a law allowing clear-cut logging in Lake Baikal’s Central Ecological Zone, a move swiftly approved by the Federation Council and signed by Vladimir Putin. Although the legislation — set to take effect on March 1, 2026 — permits such logging only under specific conditions, environmentalists and activists have no doubt that officials and businessmen with a stake in the region will have little trouble securing the necessary approvals. And they warn that the consequences for the lake and its unique flora and fauna could be irreversible.

Russia is waging a renewed — and increasingly overt — campaign of reproductive pressure on women, says Irina Fainman, an activist and founder of the Emergency Contraception Storage Fund. In the name of boosting birth rates, authorities have spent the last year seeking to discourage women from having abortions while steadily decreasing access to safe procedures.

Russia is waging a renewed — and increasingly overt — campaign of reproductive pressure on women, says Irina Fainman, an activist and founder of the Emergency Contraception Storage Fund. In the name of boosting birth rates, authorities have spent the last year seeking to discourage women from having abortions while steadily decreasing access to safe procedures.

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I question whether reaching “flagship level” in prosthetics and the unprecedented growth of the domestic prosthetics industry is something a country should be proud of.

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I can’t add snark to this, it’s too sad, it reminds me of The Killers of the Flower Moon.

Please don’t forget that if Ukrainian parents don’t send all their kids to the invader-run schools, they run the risk of having their children kidnapped by the occupier authorities and taken to Russia for “adoption” with new Russian passports and identities. As David Knowles used to say on “Ukraine: The Latest”, please don’t look away.

Na okupowanym Krymie skorumpowani notariusze pomagają przenosić własność mieszkań Ukraińców na rosyjski personel wojskowy. To tylko jeden z kilku schematów stosowanych przez władze zainstalowane na Kremlu w celu pozbawienia Ukraińców ich własności - zwłaszcza tych, którzy odmówili przyjęcia rosyjskiego obywatelstwa. Krymski serwis RFE/RL, Krym.Realii, sprawdził, w jaki sposób Rosja usystematyzowała przejmowanie domów należących do Ukraińców na okupowanym półwyspie.

Bringing Stalinism back into style through sculpture. Mountains of skulls not included.

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One of Telegram’s most popular anonymous news channels mysteriously disappeared overnight. “VChK-OGPU” (short for “All-Russian Extraordinary Commission Joint State Political Directorate”) had more than 1.1 million subscribers before it was deleted in the early morning hours of April 7. The channel wrote extensively about Russia’s law enforcement and intelligence communities.

“According to two Meduza sources close to the Russian presidential administration (AP), Kirienko himself volunteered to solve the Abkhazian crisis. He supervised Gunba’s campaign together with his close associate - head of the Russian Department for Monitoring and Analysis of Social Processes Alexander Kharichev, as well as Kharichev’s deputy, Boris Rapoport. “Two headquarters worked: one in Sukhum, the other in Sochi. Kharichev came regularly, Boris supervised directly on the spot,” Meduza’s source close to the AP specifies.

In October there was a shootout at Russia’s largest retailer.

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