Meduza looks back some moments when NATO countries, and the alliance as a whole, have had to respond to Russian threats since Moscow launched its full-scale war against Ukraine in February 2022. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Demand for new workers in Russia’s defense sector has dropped to its lowest level since the start of the full-scale war, according to a new investigation. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Putin has proposed extending the New START treaty, the only remaining nuclear accord between the U.S. and Russia, for another year. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

On Monday morning, Russian forces struck the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with aerial bombs, killing three people and wounding two others. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Ukrainian drones struck Russian-occupied Crimea overnight. According to the latest figures, three people were killed and 16 others were injured. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Asked whether he would help defend Poland and the Baltic states in the event of a Russian escalation, U.S. President Donald Trump said yes. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

In September, Russians who have remotely obtained Kazakhstani bank cards began receiving summonses for questioning at Russian police stations. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Two weeks ago, Meduza launched an emergency crowdfunding campaign. To survive, we needed a radical increase in the number of our monthly supporters. And thanks to you, we did it! But sustainability means our campaign continues. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Yulia Navalnaya says that lab tests have confirmed her late husband was poisoned, but details are scarce. Here’s what we know at this point and what we don’t. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

When Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” in September 2022, at least 9,000 men from the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia were drafted. Three years later, roughly a third of them are dead or permanently disabled. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Estonia says three Russian fighter jets violated its airspace for 12 minutes on Friday. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

A fragment of a Russian drone was found after washing up on a beach in western Latvia, the country’s military reported on Friday. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Moscow has appealed to the International Court of Justice over an ICAO Council decision holding it responsible for the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Donbas, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin had “really let me down” on efforts to end the war. Asked whether it was time to press Putin for a ceasefire, Trump replied: “It doesn’t feel like it.” meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Over three days in late July 2024, three packages caught fire at DHL freight warehouses in the United Kingdom and Germany, and at a DPD courier facility in Poland. Journalists have unmasked the Russian agents responsible. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Putin signaled today that he supports an initiative to replace Russia's labor patent system — the work permit program for migrants — with a “fly-in fly-out” approach, wherein migrants are employed temporarily and then rotated home. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Here’s how journalists pieced together where one of Russia’s most secretive military programs is based. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Russians say the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show feels familiar. Here’s what became of the country’s TV comedy shows that dared to criticize the Putin administration. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Russian punk musician Vladimir Bolobolov says he was tortured by FSB agents and is now being framed for explosives possession. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Vladimir Putin has finally revealed the "successors" to his regime. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Russian forces dropped a bomb on a residential area in the Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka on Thursday morning, killing five civilians, local officials reported. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

The Russian government has found a “solution” to complaints about mobile Internet shutdowns: a Kremlin-approved whitelist of sites that remain accessible even when the rest of the web is cut off. Here’s how it’s going. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Three people in St. Petersburg have been arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack on orders from Ukrainian intelligence, Russia’s Federal Security Service said. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

A Russian military court sentenced contract soldier Dmitry Shamanaev to 16 years in a maximum-security prison for murdering a civilian who was allegedly “rude” to him. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Meduza examines a scandal in the Z-blogosphere that may conceal a power struggle over the crowdfunding that keeps soldiers equipped on the battlefield. Whatever the reality, argues journalist Ivan Filippov, it's a cause for celebration among opponents of Russia's war. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

The U.S. is sending Australian singer Vassy to Intervision, Russia’s alternative to Eurovision. After the announcement, her past LGBTQ+ rights advocacy briefly disappeared from her Wikipedia page. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Meduza shares the most notable takeaways from Belarus and Russia’s first Zapad military exercises since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. (Spoiler: Pro-war bloggers weren’t impressed.) meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Vladimir Putin’s Deputy Chief of Staff Dmitry Kozak has reportedly submitted his resignation. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

The Russian State Duma has voted to withdraw from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

About one in five Russians are unable to make their loan payments, Vedomosti reported, citing a survey by the International Confederation of Consumer Societies. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Tests on biological samples secured by Alexey Navalny’s team after his death in a Russian prison confirm he was poisoned, his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, said today. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

A house in Poland that was damaged during a Russian drone incursion was hit not by drone debris, but by an air-to-air missile fired from an F-16 fighter jet, according to the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

A local media outlet reports that French ultra-distance cyclist Sofiane Sehili may face prison for illegally crossing into Russia from China in his last-ditch effort to break the world record for cycling from Portugal to Vladivostok. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

This past weekend, Russians went to the polls. The elections delivered predictable wins for Kremlin-backed candidates, while with some help from Putin’s administration, the ultranationalist LDPR climbed into second place. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

A Russian IT worker reportedly sent a mass email to his colleagues, telling them he was quitting and moving to France because he would “rather pay taxes to NATO” than to fund Moscow’s war in Ukraine. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

In Chechnya, more and more couples are divorcing on paper while continuing to live together — a way to qualify for child benefits in a region where wages are among the lowest in Russia and families struggle to make ends meet. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

A city in Russia’s Far East unveiled a new statue to Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky to the sound of the main theme from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Ramzan Kadyrov called legendary Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva an “enemy of the people” for comments she made in her first extended interview since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

The research firm Nielsen reported a decline in the range of goods available in Russian grocery stores. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Russian forces carried out a missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia early this morning, killing one person and injuring 13 others, including two children. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Last week, Russia dropped multiple bombs on a small Ukrainian town, killing more than two dozen people, mostly seniors waiting for their pensions. Ukrainian journalist Iryna Olegova spoke with a woman whose mother-in-law was killed and two local evacuation volunteers. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Poland’s State Security Service said on Monday that a drone was “neutralized” after it flew over key government sites, including Belweder Palace, the official Warsaw residence of President Karol Nawrocki. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Russian rapper Misha Mavashi was once known for corny tracks about healthy living. Now his right-wing nationalist movement is gaining steam — and, quietly, official support. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

You know Meduza for our independent reporting on Russia and the former Soviet Union. But did you know we also publish books that would be impossible to release inside Russia? meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Russian troops have reportedly once again turned to an unusual tactic: moving through a gas pipeline to get behind Ukrainian lines. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

“NATO is at war with Russia. This is obvious and requires no further proof,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Belarusian opposition politician Nikolai Statkevich has reportedly been sent back to prison after refusing to leave the country following his release as part of a deal between Minsk and Washington last week. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Ukrainian intelligence claimed responsibility for two explosions on Russian railways over the weekend, one of which killed three Russian National Guard officers. An HUR source called the railway segments “critical logistical links” for the Russian army. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has signed a decree authorizing additional NATO forces to be stationed in Poland as part of the alliance’s “Eastern Sentry” operation. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

The Starlink satellite communications system suffered a global outage on Monday morning. A Ukrainian military official said it was “down again across the entire front.” meduza.io/en/news/2025...