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Russian drone strike on Ukrainian park kills six, including two children

Russian forces used a drone to strike the central park in Nova Vodolaha, a town in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, said Ivan ...
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Chechen court fines woman 150,000 rubles for protesting the disappearance of her friend Seda Suleimanova, whom police forcibly returned to Chechnya three years ago

Grozny’s Akhmatovsky District Court fined St. Petersburg resident Lena Patyayeva 150,000 rubles for holding a solo picket ...
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Russian military satellite comes dangerously close to a radar satellite operated by a Finnish-U.S. company that supplies satellite imagery to Ukraine

The Russian military satellite Cosmos 2612 has come very close to ICEYE-X36, a radar satellite operated by the ...
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Sergei Loznitsa’s documentary ‘Imperium,’ assembled from archival footage of 1970s Soviet life, wins Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival

“Imperium,” a documentary by Sergei Loznitsa, won the best film award at the British Film Institute’s 70th London Film ...
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Yevgeny Prigozhin is dead, but his mercenary empire lives on. His son has expanded the family business in the Central African Republic, WSJ reports.

After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death, Russian authorities took control of the Wagner Group and created the Defense Ministry’s ...
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She wrote for RT and supported the invasion. Now a Russian court has sentenced blogger Tetyana Montian to 18 months for a remark about ‘taking out’ pro-govern…

The Voroshilovsky Interdistrict Court in annexed Donetsk has sentenced military blogger and RT columnist Tetyana Montian ...
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What will Russia and the world look like in 2038? For Meduza’s 12th anniversary, we asked 12 people to share their hopes and predictions.

Meduza is 12! When we were just starting out in 2014, the world was a very different place — no COVID, no President Trump, no ...
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Two presidents, two versions of peace: Trump says Zelensky doesn’t want the war to end. Zelensky says Trump wants Ukraine to give in.

The U.S. and Ukrainian presidents have continued their long-distance war of words. Donald Trump wrote on social media that ...
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In pictures: Biggest Ukrainian drone attack yet on St. Petersburg and Leningrad region kills 1, injures 15, and sparks many fires

Ukraine launched drone strikes on St. Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region overnight on October 18. The attack ...
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A spy inside Russia’s army. The Wall Street Journal tells the story of the lieutenant who helped Ukraine kill hundreds of his fellow soldiers.

Lev Stupnikov came to public attention in September 2025. In an interview that month with Ukrainian YouTuber Dmytro Karpenko, ...
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How do you start over in a foreign country with $500, no job, and a cat to feed? Elmira Drau, a Russian émigré who teaches English, tells the story of her flight to Ar…

Meduza recently launched “The Emigrant Questionnaire,” a series about Russians living abroad. We plan to tell the stories ...
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Russia’s invasion left thousands of Ukrainian children stranded in Russia. For one 12-year-old girl, the only way out of her occupied village led away from her mother.

How Russia Kidnaps Ukrainian Children — And How Ukrainians Get Them Back.” Written by Russian journalist Nina Nazarova and ...