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News editor at Meduza in English
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Eilish Hart
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Eilish Hart
10 days ago
Have Armenia and Azerbaijan made any more progress towards peace since the White House summit in August? My conversation with
@zaurshiriyev.bsky.social
for
@ceip-politika.bsky.social
covers that and more! Check it out now:
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A Geopolitical Shift in the South Caucasus and the Future of TRIPP | Zaur Shiriyev
YouTube video by Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center
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Meduza in English
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Russia’s full-scale invasion spurred Ukraine to launch a diplomatic push in Africa. But three and a half years on, Kyiv’s outreach still faces an uphill battle.
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‘Negative messaging doesn’t work’ In Africa, Ukraine’s fight for allies runs up against Russia’s long arm — Meduza
After Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine in February 2022, only about half of Africa’s countries backed a U.N. resolution condemning Moscow’s invasion. In the years since, Kyiv has stepped up its…
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/28/negative-messaging-doesn-t-work
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Sasha Slobodov
27 days ago
While traveling through Uzbekistan this summer, I became curious about the history of the Bukharan Jews and decided to examine how tourism is shaping what remains of the community, for my latest in
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's The Beet.
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Back to Bukhara How memory, tourism, and the diaspora sustain the last vestiges of Uzbekistan’s Jewish heritage — Meduza
Best known as a stop on the Silk Road trade route, Uzbekistan’s ancient city of Bukhara was home to a thriving Jewish community for more than 2,000 years. But since the Soviet Union’s collapse in the ...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/13/back-to-bukhara
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Meduza in English
about 1 month ago
New podcast alert! For The Naked Pravda, researcher
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breaks down the rising costs straining the Kremlin’s war machine — and explores four possible scenarios for the Russia–Ukraine war’s next chapter.
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Four scenarios for the next chapter in Russia’s war against Ukraine — Meduza
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has now passed the three-and-a-half-year mark, and there is still no end in sight. The Trump administration’s recent push to negotiate a ceasefire ground…
https://meduza.io/en/episodes/2025/10/09/four-scenarios-for-the-next-chapter-in-russia-s-war-against-ukraine
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The Guardian
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People think they know what war is. Here’s what I learned in seven years on Ukraine’s frontline
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People think they know what war is. Here’s what I learned in seven years on Ukraine’s frontline
Tanks, soldiers, explosions and tears are the cliches that movies and news reels show us. The reality is an integration of horror and the mundane, as those who have chosen to stay cling to as much normality as they can
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Eilish Hart
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Each of Ukraine’s 20,000 stolen children are the eyewitness to a war crime. Now that they’re on the Trump administration’s radar, will it help get them back from Russia? My latest.
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Eyewitnesses to a war crime Ukraine’s 20,000 stolen children are on the Trump administration’s radar. But will it help get them back? — Meduza
More than two weeks have passed since U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Vladimir Putin in Alaska, and by all appearances, this controversial show of diplomacy yielded no tangible results. Despite t...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/03/eyewitnesses-to-a-war-crime
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Meduza in English
2 months ago
Dear readers, we urgently need your help. Without at least 15,000 regular supporters, Meduza as you know it will cease to exist. But if you come through, you know we’ll keep working for you. Please, read our full statement here:
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We need your help An urgent appeal from the Meduza team — Meduza
Dear Meduza in English readers,
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/02/we-need-your-help
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2 months ago
On July 16, Russia dropped a half-ton bomb on the main shopping center in Dobropillia. For many residents, this proved to be the last straw.
@meduza.io
reports on the evacuation of this frontline town against the backdrop of faltering peace talks.
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Dispatch from Dobropillia As peace talks stall and Russia closes in, civilians flee another town in Ukraine’s Donetsk region — Meduza
The frontline in Ukraine’s Donetsk region has been creeping towards Dobropillia for the past 18 months. Located not far from the hotspot of Pokrovsk, this coal mining town has served as a refuge for t...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/29/dispatch-from-dobropillia
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Meduza in English
3 months ago
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.
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‘Space is already militarized’ Space lawyer Michelle Hanlon explains why international law still matters in a new era of astropolitics — Meduza
In recent years, Washington and Moscow have traded increasingly sharp accusations of “militarizing” outer space. After Russia shot down one of its own satellites in a 2021 test that created a massive…
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/25/space-is-already-militarized
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The New York Times
3 months ago
In Opinion | “Until a couple of years ago Peter Ruzavin was a wunderkind of Russian opposition journalism,” M. Gessen writes. “Now, at 34, he is a corporal in uniform — a Ukrainian uniform. He serves with a drone unit in Kharkiv. ‘I feel lucky,’ he told me.”
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Opinion | A Star in Russia’s Media World Joins Ukraine’s Army
On the ground in Kharkiv, the choices are starkly different.
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Sam Breazeale
3 months ago
You’ve heard of the Chicago Pope — now meet the Philly Lama. I spoke to someone I’d been wanting to interview for years: Telo Tulku Rinpoche, who served as the head of Buddhists in Russia’s Kalmykia for decades until he denounced the war in 2022.
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‘What was difficult was to remain silent’ Meduza’s interview with Telo Tulku Rinpoche, Russia’s first religious head to condemn the war in Ukraine — Meduza
In September 2022 — seven months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine — Telo Tulku Rinpoche, then the spiritual leader of Kalmykia’s Buddhists, became the first active religious le...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/06/what-was-difficult-was-to-remain-silent
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Emily L
3 months ago
Many, many years ago, when I was thinking through what non-Russian Soviet world had to teach us about the shape of political power in a globalizing world, I wrote a thing. Now it's published and open access!
modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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Toward a Theory of Second-World Literature: The Case of Sadriddin Aini’s Reminiscences | Modernism / Modernity Print+
Sadriddin Aini (b. 1878), the “founder of Soviet Tajik prose,” published his final literary work, Reminiscences (Yoddoshto) in 1949.[1] A poet, essayist, literary critic and fiction writer, Aini produced a large and varied body of work from the years just preceding the Revolution’s arrival in Central Asia up to his death in 1954. Writing in the Persian vernacular of the
https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/laskin-toward-theory-second-world-lit-aini-reminiscences
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Kevin Rothrock
4 months ago
With Trump’s waffling act still rolling, it’s still (always) a good time to consider what constraints the White House faces when it comes to arming Ukraine, even if the Donald makes the unlikely decision to go all in.
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What it would take to save Ukraine Donald Trump is pledging more weapons to Kyiv, but U.S. stockpile drawdowns are falling short in a war of attrition — Meduza
Donald Trump announced on Monday that the U.S. is sending additional weapons to Ukraine, including sought-after interceptor missiles for Patriot air defense systems capable of shooting down ballistic ...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/15/what-it-would-take-to-save-ukraine
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Meduza in English
4 months ago
Short-range drones are now the leading cause of civilian casualties in Ukraine, according to the UN. Meduza spoke to HRW’s Belkis Wille about how drone warfare impacts civilians in the city of Kherson and facilitates Russian war crimes.
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Hunted in Kherson What Russia’s deliberate drone attacks on Ukrainian civilians say about the future of war crimes — Meduza
After Russian forces seized the city of Kherson in March 2022, occupation authorities put up billboards that said, “Russia is here forever.” Eight months later, in November 2022, the Ukrainian…
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/01/hunted-in-kherson
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Eilish Hart
5 months ago
“When Russia says they’re ‘deporting’ someone, they’re not deporting them back to Ukraine.” My story on how Putin’s latest attempt to force Russian passports on Ukrainians paves the way for more war crimes in the occupied territories.
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‘A false semblance of choice’ Putin’s latest passportization deadline dials up the pressure on civilians in Ukraine’s occupied territories — Meduza
Ukrainians living under occupation have long faced pressure to assume Russian citizenship. But in March, Vladimir Putin turned things up a notch. In a decree aimed at boosting the Kremlin’s campaign t...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/19/a-false-semblance-of-choice
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“Russia’s Africa pivot is already taking on the characteristics of a state-backed mega-project.”
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Eilish Hart
5 months ago
Big update for The Beet: We now have our own landing page on
@meduza.io
! 🎉 Pay it a visit if you’re looking to subscribe to the newsletter or want to read any of our top reporting from the last year-ish.
meduza.io/en/specials/...
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Meduza in English
6 months ago
The latest World Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders paints a grim picture around the planet, but things are especially bleak in Russia, which ranks 171st out of 180. (Ukraine scored 62nd.)
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Between independence and survival Economic pressure brings global press freedom to ‘unprecedented’ low in 2025, says Reporters Without Borders — Meduza
The state of press freedom worldwide has reached an “unprecedented, critical low” this year due to economic pressure, according to the annual World Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders…
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/03/between-independence-and-survival
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Meduza in English
6 months ago
Before the Russian authorities returned the body of 27-year-old Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna to Ukraine last week, several organs, including her eyes and brain, had been removed, according to a new investigation.
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Body of Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian captivity repatriated with organs removed and other signs of torture — Meduza
Before Russian authorities returned the body of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna to Ukraine last week, several organs, including her eyes and brain, had been removed, according to a new joint…
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/29/body-of-ukrainian-journalist-who-died-in-russian-captivity-repatriated-with-organs-removed-and-other-signs-of-torture
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Eilish Hart
7 months ago
Ukraine has finally brought back the body of journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, which Russia failed to hand over for months after reporting her death last September. “Given the torture and the condition of her body, Roshchyna’s family requested not one, but several DNA examinations.”
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Meduza in English
7 months ago
As thawing U.S.-Russia relations take a turn toward the Arctic, scientific research appears to be the easiest — and least politically fraught — arena for renewed engagement. Even there, though, the two sides may be further apart than they seem.
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Breaking the ice As the U.S. and Russia tease Arctic cooperation, climate science could offer common ground — but neither side seems interested — Meduza
Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has overseen a rapid thaw in relations with Moscow. Among the more curious points of alignment: a renewed focus on the Arctic. Despite Russia’s…
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/22/breaking-the-ice
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Eilish Hart
7 months ago
This is probably the longest translation I’ve ever done for
@meduza.io
. And it tackles a question I’ve long wanted to know the answer to: Who funds the Russian opposition — and what’s in it for them? If you’re looking for a weekend read, this is it!
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‘Partisans should work with whoever they want’ Wealthy Russians have a history of funding the anti-Putin opposition. Here’s how they do it — and what’s in it for them. — Meduza
For several months, a fierce debate has raged in Russian opposition circles over the funding of political organizations, encompassing everything from the ideal level of transparency for anti-Kremlin g...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/18/partisans-should-work-with-whoever-they-want
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Meduza in English
7 months ago
Meduza shares photos of the aftermath of Russia’s missile attack on Sumy, which killed at least 34 people, including two children.
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Photos of the aftermath of Russia's Palm Sunday strike on Sumy
On April 13 — Palm Sunday — Russia forces launched a missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy. According to the latest reports, 34 people were killed, including two children. At least 119 others…
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/14/once-again-russia-has-brought-death
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Meduza in English
7 months ago
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.
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At least 21 killed and 83 injured in Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s Sumy — Meduza
Russian forces launched two missile strikes on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday, local authorities reported. According to the latest figures from Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, at least 21 people…
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/13/at-least-21-killed-and-83-injured-in-russian-missile-attack-on-ukraine-s-sumy
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Eilish Hart
7 months ago
Two Moscow soccer fans are now sitting in prison in Poland for papering downtown Krakow with Wagner Group ads. How did they get there? And what does it tell us about Russia’s covert operations in Europe? Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska reports for
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‘We are here. Join us.’ What the trial of two Wagner Group promoters in Poland reveals about Russia’s covert campaign in Europe — Meduza
In mid-February, a court in Krakow sentenced two Russian citizens to five and a half years in prison for posting hundreds of recruitment ads for the Wagner mercenary group in Polish cities. Convicted ...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/11/we-are-here-join-us
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Meduza in English
7 months ago
After a series of undersea cable breaches in the Baltic Sea late last year, NATO announced a new monitoring mission. Meduza boarded one of its ships to learn how the operation works — and what its encounters with Russia’s “shadow fleet” look like.
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Surveilling Putin’s ‘shadow fleet’ Meduza’s dispatch from the Baltic Sea, where a new NATO mission aims to protect undersea infrastructure as tensions rise with Russia — Meduza
The Baltic Sea handles around 15 percent of global shipping traffic — approximately 2,500 vessels daily, according to researcher Julian Pawlak. A rising number of these ships belong to Russia’s…
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/03/surveilling-putin-s-shadow-fleet
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Meduza in English
7 months ago
In our latest Q&A, Cold War historian Sergey Radchenko (
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‘A devil’s bargain’ Cold War historian Sergey Radchenko explains why talk of a ‘New Yalta’ between Putin and Trump misses the mark — Meduza
Ahead of a call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on March 18, a Russian state media reporter asked Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov if the two leaders planned to discuss a “new Yalta.” Peskov…
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/01/a-devil-s-bargain
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Eilish Hart
8 months ago
Russian sabotage spiked in Europe last year in an apparent bid to undermine Western support for Ukraine, according to a new
@csis.org
study. Is the Kremlin’s covert campaign effective? And what can the West do about it? I asked the report’s author, Seth G. Jones
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‘There has to be a cost’ Russian sabotage spiked in Europe last year. So why don’t Western officials do more to stop it? — Meduza
Russia intensified its sabotage efforts in Europe last year as part of a violent campaign against both European and U.S. targets on the continent, according to a new report from the Center for Strateg...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/21/there-has-to-be-a-cost
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Yan Matusevich
8 months ago
The destruction of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is so utterly devastating. Despite all the attempts to shut them down in Kyrgyzstan, they remained by far the most trusted source of news. Same goes for the rest of the region
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Kevin Rothrock
8 months ago
Wrote up a summary of Zelensky’s interview with Fox News. I believe you can criticize Zelensky’s past and present navigation of U.S. politics, but he’s doing the absolute best he can here.
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In Fox News interview after Oval Office disaster, Zelensky thanks America repeatedly for support and stresses historical moment for U.S.-Ukrainian partnership — Meduza
In an interview with Bret Baier of Fox News on Friday evening, President Volodymyr Zelensky repeatedly thanked the American people and the White House leadership for the nation’s strong partnership wi...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/01/in-fox-news-interview-after-oval-office-disaster-zelensky-thanks-america-repeatedly-for-support-and-stresses-historical-moment-for-u-s-ukrainian-partnership
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Tom Nichols
8 months ago
Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us.
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It Was an Ambush
Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
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Meduza in English
9 months ago
Three years ago today, Russia launched its full-scale war on Ukraine. Every day, Meduza asks readers of its Russian-language site to share how the war has affected them. Here are a few of their responses, translated into English.
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‘On their TV screens, they’re at war with NATO. Outside my window, there’s war every single day.’ Meduza’s readers in Ukraine and Russia reflect on how the war has shaped their lives — and deepened divisions — Meduza
Three years ago today, Russia launched a full-scale war against its neighbor, Ukraine. Even as the war rages on, it has already wrought untold destruction, claimed countless lives, torn families…
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Ilya Lozovsky
9 months ago
Riddle Russia, an excellent outlet working in exile, has lost their core grant. They're facing a possible shutdown unless they can come up with an infusion of cash to buy them time to look for new funding. A decimation of independent Russian media is happening as we speak.
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Donate – Riddle Russia
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Eilish Hart
10 months ago
“Yes, it’s Russia’s blackmail, but it was so predictable.” My Q&A with Moldova’s former reintegration minister, Alexandru Flenchea, about Transnistria’s gas crisis, Chisinau’s response, and Moscow’s long game.
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‘Little pieces in a big game’ Moldova’s former reintegration minister, Alexandru Flenchea, explains what losing Russian gas means for breakaway Transnistria — Meduza
As the temperature in Moldova dips below freezing, the breakaway Transnistria region’s 360,000 residents are using plug-in electric heaters and wood stoves to keep warm. In the two weeks since Russian...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/14/little-pieces-in-a-big-game
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Meduza in English
10 months ago
For many of Meduza’s journalists, 2024 marks another year spent far from their families. We asked our colleagues to share the traditions they grew up with, the ones they’ve carried forward, and the new ones they’ve discovered along the way.
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‘Home has to feel warm, full, and cozy — no matter what’ Meduza’s journalists reflect on the New Year’s traditions they grew up with and those they’ve carried across borders — Meduza
The New Year holidays are a time for family, connection, and celebration. But for those living in exile, they carry a bittersweet weight: the warmth of cherished memories and the joy of the season…
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"The history of feeling is the history of labels too small to contain the loves of which we are capable — varied and vigorously transfigured from one kind into another and back again."
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The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom
“While we weaken friendships by expecting too little of them, we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them.”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/02/28/the-other-significant-others/
10 months ago
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Meduza in English
12 months ago
Former inmates of Belarusian prisons have recounted hellish conditions — particularly for women, who are denied basic menstrual products while behind bars. We collected first-hand accounts from women who have survived this brutal treatment.
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‘You beg them for soap and pads’ How Belarusian women’s prisons turn menstruation into a form of torture — Meduza
There are currently more than 1,200 political prisoners in Belarus, according to the Viasna Human Rights Center. Those who have been released from Belarusian prisons have described hellish conditions…
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Eilish Hart
about 1 year ago
In a bittersweet dispatch from coastal Latvia, Meduza photo editor Katya Balaban captures the country’s vanishing shore and all that’s slowly being lost to the advancing sea. My translation for the The Beet.
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Disappearing coast As the Baltic Sea erodes Latvia’s shoreline, locals grapple with what’s lost to the advancing tide — Meduza
Along Latvia’s Baltic coast, the waves are gradually encroaching upon houses, trees, and historical landmarks — and while it’s possible to slow the degradation, the water can’t be stopped. According t...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/10/18/disappearing-coast
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"They live in peace against the soldiers that come to their land to kill and to die: life against death. Sometimes there is no reason for them to stay. But beyond reason, there is a dignity to resistance, which manifests the practice of peace in the midst of war."
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Peace to the World - Notes - e-flux
Oxana Timofeeva on Kant’s essay “Toward Perpetual Peace”
https://www.e-flux.com/notes/584642/peace-to-the-world
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A stunningly beautiful portrait of a family’s survival through Soviet deportations and persecution. For
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tells the story of how the past has shaped Lena Wolf and her family and explores their complex relationship to home, language, and identity.
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Sam Breazeale
almost 2 years ago
I wanted to contextualize Russia's ban on the "LGBT movement" and figure out why Putin's anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric often sounds so familiar to me as an American, so I went to the experts: historian Dan Healey, sociologist Alexander Kondakov, and political scientist Leandra Bias.
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Russia’s ban on the ‘LGBT movement’ — Meduza
On November 30, the Russian Supreme Court outlawed an organization that doesn’t exist: the so-called “international LGBT movement.” The ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by the Justice ...
https://meduza.io/en/episodes/2023/12/08/russia-s-ban-on-the-lgbt-movement
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Meduza in English
almost 2 years ago
(1/2) On the latest episode of The Naked Pravda, Meduza spoke to two experts: Olesya Vartanyan, Crisis Group’s Senior Analyst for the South Caucasus region, about life near Georgia’s two breakaway regions and the prospects for peace…
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Spotlight on Georgia — Meduza
On November 8, 2023, the E.U. recommended that Georgia be granted candidate status, which it applied for in March 2022, just after Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The E.U. had previ...
https://meduza.io/en/episodes/2023/12/02/spotlight-on-georgia
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Meduza in English
almost 2 years ago
Russia’s Supreme Court has granted the Justice Ministry’s request to ban the “international LGBT movement.” Human rights advocates have warned that the ban will likely lead to an increase in harassment and persecution against LGBTQ+ people.
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Russian Justice Ministry bans ‘LGBT movement’ as ‘extremist organization’ — Meduza
The Russian Supreme Court has granted the Justice Ministry’s request to ban the “international LGBT movement” as an “extremist organization.”
https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/11/30/russian-justice-ministry-bans-lgbt-movement-as-extremist-organization
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Meduza in English
almost 2 years ago
Right now, Russia’s Supreme Court is considering a suit to ban the “international LGBT movement” as an “extremist organization.” The case could lead to millions of queer people being declared illegal. We asked our Russian readers to share their thoughts. (Thread)
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‘When we’re gone, they’ll come for you’ Meduza’s LGBTQ+ readers on the Russian authorities...
On Thursday, November 30, the Russian Supreme Court will consider a request from the Justice Ministry to ban the “international LGBT movement” as an “extremist” organization. Exactly what cons...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/11/30/when-we-re-gone-they-ll-come-for-you
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“…the ultimate touchstone [of friendship] is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another…”
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Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on the Deeper Meanings of Friendship, Love, and Heartbreak
“All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness.”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/04/29/david-whyte-consolations-words/?fbclid=IwAR09rU8FFg3j-rP1CvAUv-h3RbUJWdTo6p78E5p14GmBFh3ek1z0LmrQ1Iw
almost 2 years ago
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Eilish Hart
almost 2 years ago
“The authorities didn’t want him to ‘contaminate’ other prisoners with his views. And of course, knowing Vladimir, they were sort of right, because he would.” My interview with Evgenia Kara-Murza about her husband’s imprisonment and Russia’s future.
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‘When cracks appear, we’ll see people in the streets’ Evgenia Kara-Murza on her husband’s im...
When Evgenia Kara-Murza’s husband was arrested in Russia in April 2022, she immediately made it her mission to continue his work from abroad. A longtime anti-Putin dissident, her husband — Russian...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/11/23/when-cracks-appear-we-ll-see-people-in-the-streets
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A really interesting look into the challenges of preserving endangered languages in Georgia from
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Language barrier In Georgia, preserving endangered languages is an uphill battle — Meduza
Story by Sasha Slobodov for The Beet. Edited by Eilish Hart.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/11/10/language-barrier
almost 2 years ago
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Sam Breazeale
about 2 years ago
Evan Gershkovich turned 32 in prison yesterday. You can still write him a note using this form and my colleagues will translate it to Russian and do everything they can to deliver it to him. Send him a happy belated birthday and some words of support:
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Meduza is collecting letters for Evan Gershkovich The Russian authorities, who claim The Wall Street...
Journalist Evan Gershkovich was arrested on March 30 on orders from Russia’s Federal Security Service, which claims that he was involved in “espionage” — an offense punishable by up to 20 year...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/03/31/meduza-is-collecting-letters-for-evan-gershkovich
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