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A plane carrying Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda had to delay its landing at Vilnius Airport after reports of a drone sighting on Tuesday. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
The man accused of killing former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy admitted in court on Tuesday that he committed the murder as an act of revenge against Ukraine’s authorities. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Meduza reviews questions surrounding recent reporting on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's troubled landing in Bulgaria over the weekend. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Russia and China have signed a legally binding “memorandum of construction” for the Power of Siberia–2 gas pipeline, signaling a significant shift in the global gas market. But details about the deal are still scarce. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
After over six years, Ivan Zhdanov is out as head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (the organization founded by Alexey Navalny). He spoke to Meduza about his ouster, his relationship with his comrades in the anti-Putin opposition, and what comes next. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
This year, Russia’s Education Ministry is launching a newly designed version of its “patriotic” lesson series specifically for preschoolers and kindergartners, rolling it out in 19 Russian regions as well as occupied parts of Ukraine. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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What do you gift the pro-Kremlin censorship activist who has everything? A political party, according to pro-war pop singer Shaman. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russia’s Gazprom and China’s CNPC have signed a “legally binding memorandum” to build the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, which could make Russia the largest gas supplier to the Chinese market. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Putin hasn’t changed his tune about the West or NATO, but his recent talks with Donald Trump could “pave the way” for peace, he said in China on Monday. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
On August 29, an assassin fired eight bullets at Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Parubiy in Lviv, killing him instantly. Here’s what we know so far about the assassination and the suspect. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Police in the Russian city of Novosibirsk arrested a local man on Monday after he staged a performance outside a school that involved juggling with a live hedgehog. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
More than 3.5 years into the full-scale war, the Russian authorities continue to churn out repressive legislation. Here are just some of the slew of laws coming into effect today (September 1). meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Authorities in Russia’s Belgorod region have installed nets over dozens of local kindergartens to protect them from drone attacks. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
When Meduza visited Dobropillia in early August, the remaining residents compared it to a ghost town — and that was before Russian troops pierced Ukraine’s defenses in the area. Read more in our new dispatch. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Ukraine is planning new long-range strikes deep inside Russian territory, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Monday. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
The forest fire sparked by a Ukrainian drone about six miles from Putin’s Black Sea “palace” last week was extinguished on Sunday. The job took over 100 people and two helicopters. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Ukraine’s Andriy Yermak met with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff in New York to discuss the agreements reached between Trump, Zelensky, and European leaders at their August 18 White House meeting, Yermak said on Friday. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
All school group chats in Moscow will be required to move to Russia’s domestic messaging platform Max at the start of the upcoming school year, a city official announced on Friday. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
The U.S. has approved the sale of up to 3,350 Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) missiles to Ukraine. It’s the first major deal for a new type of weapon for Ukraine approved by the Trump administration. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
When Meduza visited Dobropillia in early August, the remaining residents compared it to a ghost town — and that was before Russian troops pierced Ukraine’s defenses in the area. Read more in our new dispatch. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Meduza and Mediazona’s latest estimate — based on inheritance case data — puts Russia’s total combat losses in Ukraine at more than 200,000. At some points in 2024, Russia’s losses likely exceeded 2,000 per week. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
European leaders are considering the creation of a 25-mile buffer zone in Ukraine as part of a future ceasefire deal or an element of the country’s post-war security framework, Politico reports. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russia is days away from launching an experimental program to track migrants in Moscow through a mandatory mobile app. But there’s a catch: it barely works. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Russian forces carried out a rare successful strike on a Ukrainian naval ship on Thursday, killing at least one crew member. Moscow claims it sunk the vessel. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
The Russian authorities are demanding constant access to data from Yandex’s Alisa home smart speakers — Russia’s version of the Amazon Echo. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Debris from a crashed Ukrainian drone sparked a forest fire roughly six miles from Putin’s seaside mansion on the Black Sea coast, prompting evacuations. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Seventeen people have already been confirmed killed in Russia’s massive overnight strike on Kyiv, as rescue workers continue searching the rubble. See the aftermath of Moscow’s deadly assault on Ukraine’s capital. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
U.S. officials told their E.U. counterparts that Washington could provide Ukraine with intelligence assets, command structures, and critical systems for ensuring air security as part of future security guarantees, according to sources who spoke to FT. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Putin and Kim Jong Un will be among 26 heads of state traveling to China on September 3 for a military parade. It’ll be the two leaders’ first public appearance together with Xi Jinping. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Hungary’s government has filed a legal challenge in the European Court of Justice against the decision to use frozen Russian assets to fund military aid for Ukraine. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Fires broke out at two oil refineries in Russia’s Krasnodar and Samara regions after attacks by Ukrainian drones. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Update: As of 10:20 a.m. local time, Kyiv authorities reported that 12 people had been killed and 48 injured in the attack. Among the dead are three children, including a two-year-old. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russian forces launched an overnight drone and missile attack on Kyiv, killing at least eight people and injuring 38. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
The Russian FSB has designated the Free Russia Forum, a biannual conference for opposition politicians and analysts held in Vilnius, as a “terrorist” organization. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Many Russians’ most vivid memory of the Ostankino Tower fire is the sudden disappearance of TV. But at the scene, an unprecedented operation was unfolding as firefighters worked to save Europe’s tallest tower. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
It’s official: Olha Stefanishyna is now Ukraine’s new ambassador to the United States. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Poland’s new president, conservative Karol Nawrocki, has vetoed a bill that would have extended support for Ukrainian refugees. Meduza looks at his decision, which could push nearly a million people in Poland into a legal gray zone. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
The Russian government has extended its ban on gasoline exports through the end of October. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Earlier this week, journalists discovered that the AI chatbot developed by Russia’s Sberbank was telling users to read media outlets labeled “foreign agents” or “undesirable” by the Russian authorities, including Meduza. (The bot has since been “fixed.”) meduza.io/en/feature/2...
The State Council of Crimea, the Russian-installed parliament in the occupied region, has recommended that municipalities ban performances of songs by “foreign agents” in open public spaces, according to its head, Vladimir Konstantinov. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Western allies have drafted a tentative three-tier defense plan for postwar Ukraine, the Financial Times reported. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russia hasn’t yet achieved its aim of seizing all of Donbas. But the goal doesn’t appear out of reach. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Russian Post has suspended package deliveries to the United States due to new U.S. import duties. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
From the start of Russia’s full-scale war through July 2025, Ukrainian authorities opened more than 200,000 criminal cases for unauthorized absence from a military unit and over 50,000 for desertion. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Ukraine will start allowing men aged 18–22 to leave the country, even while martial law remains in effect, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on Tuesday. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
A Russian blogger who has drawn comparisons to Andrew Tate for his violently misogynistic remarks and boasts about sex with minors, was arrested this weekend — but not for his treatment of women. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
After more than three years in Russian captivity, the 65-year-old former mayor of Kherson has returned to Ukraine. No formal charges against him were ever reported. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Woody Allen said in a statement that while he believes Putin was wrong to invade Ukraine, “I don’t feel cutting off artistic conversations is ever a good way to help.” meduza.io/en/news/2025...
The Russian government has called on Putin to denounce the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Many Russian civic activists are forced to turn to the state for support in order to survive, according to a new study by the Hannah Arendt Research Center. Even pro-government groups, however, don’t always escape state repression. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
A 28-year-old former resident of a Ukrainian care home for people with disabilities has returned to Ukraine nearly two years after being forcibly taken to Russia and placed in a facility run by the sister of Putin’s children’s rights commissioner. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Ukrainian and U.S. officials will meet later this week to discuss possible peace talks with Russia, Zelensky told journalists on Monday. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Washington and Moscow keep accusing each other of “militarizing” outer space. But is international law ready for a new era of conflict in orbit? To find out, Meduza spoke with space lawyer Michelle Hanlon. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hinted that attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline were tied to Budapest’s refusal to back Ukraine’s E.U. bid, the Hungarian foreign minister accused Kyiv of “violating” the country’s energy security. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
American film director Woody Allen was a headline speaker at the Moscow city government’s International Film Week over the weekend. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has designated the Swiss-based International Baccalaureate an “undesirable” organization. Thousands of schools use IB programs globally, including about 50 in Russia. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Orthodox Church in America Archbishop Alexei of Sitka and Alaska apologized for not asking Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine during their meeting in Anchorage. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Two years ago tomorrow, mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash, two months after captivating the world with a brief mutiny against Russia’s military. In a new interview, Prigozhin's mother reflects on her son's demise. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
A Russian soldier told journalists he took part in the killing of five Ukrainian POWs in May 2024. He later deserted his unit and now has an arrest warrant against him. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
A week after Putin shook Trump's hand in Alaska and they appeared to agree on the general contours of a Ukraine settlement, the two leaders are sending some very different signals. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
If you know the Internet meme surrounding gay porn star Billy Herrington, count yourself one step ahead of the locals in Zheleznogorsk who fell for this prank. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally bestowed medals on more than a dozen senior officers who fought against Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region. But what's next for Pyongyang in the war? meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Meduza talks to Lana Estemirova about her new memoir commemorating the life, work, and assassination of her mother, renowned human rights activist Natalia Estemirova. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Seda Suleymanova, who was forced back to her native Chechnya after fleeing an arranged marriage in 2023, may have been killed and buried in her home village, human rights group SK SOS says. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russia's Justice Ministry has added Sergey Markov, one of the country's most prominent pro-Kremlin pundits, to its "foreign agents" registry. Early speculation ties the move to Markov's comments backing Azerbaijan, amid the recent Moscow–Baku diplomatic rift. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Russia is increasingly turning to Central Asians to replenish its depleted forces in Ukraine. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Ukraine has repatriated 65 of its citizens who had been held at the Dariali checkpoint on the Russian–Georgian border, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha and Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Ukrainian drones struck a pumping station on the Druzhba oil pipeline in the town of Unecha in Russia’s Bryansk region, halting oil deliveries to Hungary once again. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard signed a directive in late July barring the sharing of any intelligence related to Russian–Ukrainian peace negotiations with other members of the Five Eyes alliance, CBS News reported. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Less than a week after Trump and Putin shook hands in Alaska, Russia's military has destroyed a U.S.-owned factory in western Ukraine. President Zelensky says, "The Russians knew exactly where they lobbed the missiles." meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Federal investigators have determined that nearly three dozen soldiers, including one officer implicated in the Bucha massacre, deliberately shot at one another to claim compensation and fooled Russia's national media into celebrating them as war heroes. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Economic problems are piling up, financial risks for ordinary Russians are mounting, but none of it has been enough to push the Kremlin to end the war. Meduza examines the main cracks in Russia’s economy and the dangers lurking behind them. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
CNN has confirmed that Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, has delivered Russia’s Order of Courage to CIA Deputy Director Juliane Gallina, whose son received the medal after dying in Ukraine while fighting alongside Russian invasion forces. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Five years ago, Russia’s FSB poisoned Alexey Navalny. Meduza looks back at what became of the key figures in the poisoning saga. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
European countries want U.S. President Donald Trump to station U.S. F-35 fighter jets in Romania as part of security guarantees for Ukraine, The Times reported, citing sources. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russia attacked western Ukraine on Thursday, killing one person in Lviv and injuring more than 10 people in the Zakarpattia region, according to local authorities. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russian authorities will be forced to raise taxes, Reuters reported, citing an anonymous government source. “Otherwise, we simply won't be able to make ends meet,” the source said. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russian oil deliveries to the E.U. through the Druzhba pipeline have resumed, days after a Ukrainian strike on the line’s infrastructure brought shipments to a halt. The disruption triggered another round of diplomatic tensions between Kyiv and Budapest. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
The Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic has sentenced a man to 17 years in prison for treason. Judges ruled that he acted “out of a misguided sense of patriotism” by aiding Ukraine against Russian occupation forces. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
The part of the Donetsk region that Kyiv still controls contains Ukraine’s “fortress belt,” a 31-mile stretch of defensive structures that blocks Russian troops from sweeping into central Ukraine. Putin is demanding Ukraine surrender it in any peace deal. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Following today's remarks in Moscow, Meduza examines the enormous discrepancies between the Kremlin’s position on the war in Ukraine and the White House’s characterizations of U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
A Russian drone crashed and exploded in a cornfield in eastern Poland on Tuesday night, the country’s defense minister said. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Wholesale gasoline prices in Russia are hitting record highs, driven by Ukrainian drone strikes that have repeatedly taken refineries offline. meduza.io/en/cards/fue...
Russia’s Finance Ministry has drafted legislation that would set the personal income tax rate for “foreign agents” at 30 percent — the same rate applied to tax non-residents. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russian oil deliveries through the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary, suspended on Monday after a Ukrainian strike, have resumed, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó wrote, adding: “This is not our war — leave us out of it!!” meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russia’s state-designed “patriotic” lesson series “Important Conversations” is being rolled out in preschools and kindergartens — in occupied areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Luhansk regions. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
The Russian Foreign Ministry's monthly journal recently published an article urging Moscow to view the Baltic Sea as a “potential theater of military operations.” Meduza summarizes the controversial text. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Meduza summarizes reactions from Russia's leading Z-bloggers to yesterday's summit that brought Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a large European delegation to Washington. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
About 10 European countries have said they would be prepared to send troops to Ukraine as part of a future peace agreement, Bloomberg reports. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
The entire Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region lost power after a drone attack on Tuesday, the Moscow-installed head reported. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
A 47-year-old mountain climber from Russia is stranded on Kyrgyzstan’s Pobeda Peak, the highest point in the Tian Shan range, after breaking her leg. Weather conditions have hampered multiple rescue attempts. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Russia’s Higher School of Economics plans to develop a methodology for assessing and monitoring students’ attitudes toward “traditional spiritual and moral values.” meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Both Tehran and Moscow continue to deny that Iran is supplying Russia with weapons for its war against Ukraine. Meduza shares evidence to the contrary. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Switzerland will grant Putin immunity if he comes to the country for peace talks with Zelensky, despite the ICC’s arrest warrant, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
⚡ In his phone call with Trump on Monday, Putin proposed meeting with Zelensky in Moscow, AFP reports. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Talks between the presidents of Ukraine and Russia, preparations for which were announced by the White House, could be held in Hungary, a senior U.S. administration official told Reuters. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Security guarantees for Ukraine will include its own “strong army,” an agreement with the U.S. to purchase weapons, and domestic drone production, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said after his meeting at the White House. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
“In essence, one side is not going to get 100 percent here,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said of a possible Russia-Ukraine peace deal, adding that questions of territory are “going to be part of that conversation.” meduza.io/en/news/2025...
In the second quarter of 2025, 37,900 people received sign-on bonuses for contracts with the Russian army, iStories reported, citing federal budget data. That figure is two and a half times lower than during the same period in 2024. meduza.io/en/news/2025...