Putin vows to conquer ‘historic lands’ in Ukraine, calls European leaders ‘piglets’ for backing Kyiv — Meduza
The U.S. and Ukraine may have hailed progress in peace talks earlier this week, but Vladimir Putin maintains that…
Meduza’s analysts break down how Russia’s temporary SIM card blocks are supposed to stop drones — and why they won’t — Meduza
Since November 10, Russia has been running an experiment it calls SIM card “cooling” — temporarily cutting off mobile Internet…
To force deserters back to war, Russia’s military is torturing their families — Meduza
The Russian army has swelled since Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Months into the…
Russia accuses journalist Christo Grozev of involvement in alleged Ukrainian-British plot to hijack fighter jet — Meduza
Moscow alleged on Tuesday that it had uncovered an operation by Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) and its “British handlers” to hijack a Russian…
The E.U. just tightened visa rules for Russians. We read the fine print so you don’t have to. — Meduza
1 Stricter visa rules for Russians The E.U. has further tightened its rules for issuing Schengen visas to Russian…
A Russian medical student read about Ukraine’s Azov Regiment while riding the bus. Within hours, federal agents arrested him for an ‘illegal Internet search.’
One fine day in late September, a medical student named Sergey was riding the bus to work in Kamensk-Uralsky, browsing the Internet…
The plunder and violence unleashed in occupied Ukraine has reached Russia’s own towns — Meduza
When Russian soldiers spilled into Ukraine in February 2022, reports soon followed of rampant looting in captured towns. Homes, museums, theaters…
How many soldiers have Russia and Ukraine lost? And how do their armies compare? Meduza’s military analysts answer readers’ biggest questions about the war (part 3)
In October, we asked our Russian-language readers to send in their most pressing questions about the Russia–Ukraine war. We received hundreds of messages in response, and…
Russian clients living in the E.U. struggle to regain banking access after fintech company Revolut freezes accounts — Meduza
Revolut, an online bank popular among expats in the European Union, has started freezing accounts belonging to Russian and Belarusian citizens.…
‘Regulated life has won’ Fifteen years ago, Alexander Gronsky photographed Moscow’s unruly outskirts. Now he says they’re disappearing.
Fifteen years ago, Russian photographer Alexander Gronsky released Pastoral, a series of landscape photos taken on the outskirts of Moscow that depict…