Ukrainians are freezing inside their homes as Russia's winter strikes intensify. Here is how you can help.

Bitcoin has fallen below $63,000 - that's half the all-time high

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has proposed to allow registration of cars that are internationally wanted

Estonia will close travel across the border with Russia overnight

U.S.-led talks end with first Ukraine-Russia prisoner swap in months as state media signals new demands from Moscow

Zelensky says 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died in the full-scale war with Russia. Open-source data suggests a higher toll.

Prisoners have started taking up to 75% of the money their loved ones transfer to them. What is happening

He played Putin and broke NATO in three days. Alexander Gabuev, the scholar behind an alarming wargame, tells Meduza how he did it.

Belgorod region is the leader in the number of registered rapes. In 2025, 199 such crimes were recorded in the region. This is three times more than a year earlier

Trump: U.S. and Russia don't need to extend nuclear arsenal limitation treaty - need new agreement

Trump proposed not to extend the START-3, but to conclude a new strategic arms treaty

Archaeologists have found for the first time the bone of a war elephant from the Punic Wars

Ukraine and Russia discussed ceasefire. Moscow again demands Donbass. How the talks between Russia, Ukraine and the USA took place in Abu Dhabi

The AFU continue "mopping up" the center of Kupyansk, blocking of Russian Starlink, raid on Kapustin Yar missile range. What is happening on the front

The U.S. has recorded the largest wave of layoffs since the 2009 financial crisis

Germany obliged Netflix and other streaming services to invest 8% of revenue in local movies

Germany held a simulation of the Russian invasion of Europe. Bad news: the Kremlin won. In this game, journalist and geopolitics expert Alexander Gabuev played the role of Putin. We talked to him

Deported in hours, a 25-year-old Crimean now faces life in a Russian prison. Rights experts warn his arrest reveals a chilling new extradition shortcut from Kazakhstan.

The end of communication. Russian "war correspondents" announced mass shutdown of Starlink terminals in the combat zone

Iran seized two tankers in the Persian Gulf

A war game involving ex-NATO officials and experts showed that Russia would defeat the alliance in Lithuania in two days

Astra: Head of women's colony in Stavropol Krai beats and harasses prisoners

Up to 75% of remittances from loved ones have been debited from prisoners in Russia

Starlink develops phone with always-on satellite internet connection anywhere in the world - Reuters

"We cannot afford illusions. In their place is maximum pragmatism and even pessimism." Ukraine has changed its defense strategy. What could be new there? A Ukrainian political scientist explains

RIA Novosti attributed to the Estonian president the idea of Ukraine's inevitable relinquishment of territories. In fact, he is against it

Kazakhstan denied asylum to former Russian military officer Yevgeny Korobov, who deserted from the army

FT: A7, an overseas transfer company set up in Russia by fugitive Moldovan oligarch Shor, is expanding its operations despite sanctions

Trump administration stripped nearly 50,000 federal employees of furlough protections

Ukraine strikes infrastructure at Russia's Oreshnik launch site, military says

Vladimir Vitikov, a native of Belarus, who threw a two-year-old boy on the floor in Sheremetyevo, was sent for compulsory treatment

Publisher demanded to censor book on animal sex lives because of 'LGBT propaganda'

The 10 best films of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival are a ready-made list to watch in the coming months. Heroes of this top: Channing Tatum and one unbearably annoying polar bear

U.S. Director of National Intelligence Gabbard ordered the seizure of voting machines in Puerto Rico to test conspiracy theory - Reuters

Russia launches criminal case against Meduza special correspondent Andrey Pertsev

The United States and Russia have agreed to resume high-level military dialog. It was stopped before the war - in the fall of 2021

War. Day one thousand four hundred and forty-three. The second round of negotiations took place in Abu Dhabi. TASS claims that Moscow demands that Donbass be recognized as Russian by all countries of the world

After Rules. Why international governance institutions are dying out and what is replacing them

Axios: Russia and the US are close to a deal to extend the START-III treaty on limiting nuclear arsenals. It expires today

Pentagon has been asked to investigate Space X for possible share purchases by Chinese investors - Reuters

A court in London has sentenced Russian sailor Vladimir Motin to six years in the case of the collision of two ships off the UK coastline

Bitcoin has fallen below $70,000

Iran detains two tankers with more than one million liters of smuggled fuel

A court in Kazakhstan has denied asylum to a Russian officer. A case of desertion has been opened against him in Russia

"If we talk about some of the most important problem of the Soviet Union, it is the problem of longing." Journalist Mikhail Zygar answered Novaya-Europe's questions

Kamchatka will build a "Museum of Military Glory" for 4 billion rubles - it is 3.5 times more than the cost of resettlement of emergency housing

Citizens of Belarus will be obliged to submit fingerprints when living abroad

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners for the first time in four months. At the same time, the second round of talks between Ukraine, Russia and the USA ended in the UAE

The Russian captain of the Solong dry cargo ship that rammed a US tanker has been sentenced in London to 6 years in prison

The Interior Ministry has proposed to allow registration of cars that are internationally wanted on the initiative of "unfriendly countries"