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Yesterday, a Russian court sentenced four journalists to 5.5 years in prison for allegedly helping make YouTube videos for Navalny's organization. Who are they? meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Russia has sentenced four journalists to 5.5 years in prison, including past Reuters and AP contributors, on charges of participating in an “extremist organization” for their alleged ties to Navalny’s organization. The trial was held behind closed doors. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Moscow has launched its first major offensive since the battle for Sudzha, with Russian forces advancing toward the city of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region. See the latest developments: meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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The Trump administration has told Washington's G7 allies that it won’t support a statement condemning Russia’s recent deadly missile strike on Ukraine's Sumy, saying that it's “working to preserve the space to negotiate peace,” Bloomberg reports. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Soviet eco-activism exposed state rot — but it also provided the networks, platforms, and experience for ordinary people to become anti-authoritarian campaigners. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, who had his third meeting with Putin on Friday, said a peace deal is "taking shape." He said it involves the "so-called five territories" but goes beyond that — and also mentioned "some very compelling commercial opportunities." meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Zelensky has dismissed Volodymyr Artyukh, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, two days after a Russian missile attack on central Sumy that killed at least 35. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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One person was killed and nine others injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Kursk region on Monday night, local authorities reported. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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A Russian court has sentenced ex-soldier Roman Ivanishin to 15 years in prison for surrendering to Ukraine, trying to surrender again, and desertion. It's the first known conviction under a 2022 law criminalizing voluntary surrender. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Germany's likely incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said Sunday that the country is open to supplying Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles, but only in coordination with its European partners. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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"I think it was terrible. And I was told they made a mistake," Trump said of Russia's missile strike on Sumy yesterday, which killed at least 35 people. "...This country would have never allowed that war to have started if I were president." meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Russian scientists working or studying in Sweden are increasingly being denied permanent residency — and, as a result, receiving long-term bans on entry to the Schengen Area. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Trump's push to rebuild ties with Moscow have led Russian state media to swing from cursing the U.S. over the war to praising its president for his kind words about Putin and his dismantling of USAID. Here's why the contradiction isn't a problem for them. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza shares photos of the aftermath of Russia’s missile attack on Sumy, which killed at least 34 people, including two children. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov cautioned against expecting any “immediate results” from the ongoing talks between Russia and the U.S., saying that reviving relations "from almost zero is extremely difficult." meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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"Putin's ultimate goal is to revive the Russian Empire and reclaim territories currently under NATO protection," Zelensky said in his 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday. "...Considering all of this, I believe it could escalate into a world war." meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday that its forces had shot down a Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet. A day earlier, Ukraine’s Air Force reported that Captain Pavlo Ivanov was killed during a combat mission in an F-16. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Russian forces launched two missile strikes on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday. According to the latest figures from Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, at least 21 people were killed. At least 83 others were injured, including seven children. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Russian forces carried out a missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday, killing more than 20 people, according to local authorities. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Let's talk about all the гуд things and the бад things that may be. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Due to funding restrictions, the Ukrainian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty announced today that it's been forced to furlough some of its staff and scale back broadcasts.

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He helped Yeltsin draft the agreement that dissolved the USSR. Now Russia has blacklisted Andrei Kozyrev as a "foreign agent."

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed he’s ready for peace talks with Ukraine — but the numbers at home tell a different story. Military recruitment is surging across Russia, and local administrations are boosting sign-on bonuses.

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Russia's military is moving toward a precedent it hopes will dissuade more soldiers from voluntarily surrendering to Ukrainian troops.

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NEW: Journalist Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska tells the story of how posting Wagner Group ads in Poland landed two Russian citizens in prison — and what their case revealed about the Kremlin’s covert operations in Europe.

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The Estonian Defense Forces have reportedly detained an oil tanker that belongs to Russia’s “shadow fleet."

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Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the graves of soldiers who died fighting for Russia have been regularly vandalized — set on fire, defaced with swastikas, and stripped of military flags.

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Prince Harry traveled to Ukraine on Thursday and visited a clinic in Lviv where wounded soldiers are receiving treatment. The visit was not announced in advance.

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Six European countries from the “coalition of the willing” have signaled that they are prepared to send troops to Ukraine as security guarantees in the event of a ceasefire, AFP reported.

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Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, is in Russia for another meeting with Putin, according to Axios.

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U.S. Amb. to Ukraine Bridget Brink is resigning “earlier than planned,” FT correspondent Christopher Miller reported on Thursday, saying her decision is based on policy differences with Washington and personal reasons.

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Be careful what you tag, kids. Not all "patriotic graffiti" is created equal.

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Russian federal investigators have accused Ukrainian soldiers of executing nine civilians during their occupation of Makhnovka, a small town outside Sudzha.

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A military court in Russia has sentenced a Ukrainian national to 16 years in prison for sending mail bombs to three Russian colonels, allegedly on orders from Ukraine’s Security Service.

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Meduza's resident Kremlin-watcher, Andrey Pertsev, explains how the right-wing, misleadingly named Liberal Democratic Party of Russia is managing, three years after losing its charismatic founder.

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Russian forces launched a ballistic missile strike on a civilian infrastructure facility in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, killing one person and injuring eight others, according to local officials.

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According to former inmates in Russian women’s prisons, it’s not just the promise of freedom or financial compensation that drives women to sign army contracts — for many, prison conditions are often so unbearable that even war seems preferable.

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Authorities in the Chechen town of Achkhoy-Martan publicly displayed the body of a teenager who was killed after he allegedly attacked a police officer earlier this week, according to an opposition Telegram channel.

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Russia and the U.S. carried out a prisoner swap in Abu Dhabi on Thursday morning “in a sign of continuing confidence building,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

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The Russian government is developing criteria under which foreign companies that exited the country after the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine could be allowed to return, RBC reported.

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Russian drone attacks targeted Mykolaiv and Kyiv on Wednesday night, damaging civilian infrastructure and injuring at least 12 people, three of whom were hospitalized.

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Russia and the U.S. have reportedly begun their latest round of diplomatic talks in Istanbul.

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Ukrainian authorities have identified at least 155 Chinese nationals fighting for Russia in the war, President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters. He said Russia is recruiting them through TikTok and other Chinese social media platforms.

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In less than a year, two Russian bombers have crashed near a small Siberian village, not far from a military airfield. Now, residents are increasingly afraid the next one might land on their homes.

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Russia isn’t a target of Trump’s trade war so far — but economists say Moscow should still be anxious about the global fallout.

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On the evening of April 4, Russia launched a missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih. At least 20 people were killed, including at least nine children with ages ranging from 3 to 17. Meduza shares photos from the city’s final goodbye to them.

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Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, said that President Volodymyr Zelensky was right to warn of a looming Russian offensive in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.

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French border authorities temporarily detained a Russian Foreign Ministry employee and confiscated her devices, according to ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova. Moscow reportedly summoned France’s ambassador and warned of “consequences.”

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Russian forces carried out drone strikes on Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Kramatorsk on Tuesday night, according to regional officials and Ukraine's State Emergency Service. At least 20 people were injured in the attacks.

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Most U.S. troops are being relocated from a temporary base in Jasionka, Poland, roughly 30 miles from the Ukrainian border. The site serves as a key hub for delivering military aid to Ukraine.

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