Russia just withdrew from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. But officials say you needn't worry — the Kremlin is still committed to preventing torture. Okay? meduza.io/en/news/2025...

A joint investigation between Russian and American journalists has discovered how a Russian banker's $6-million mansion traded hands just before U.S. sanctions early in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Effective immediately, motorists in Russian-occupied Crimea will be allowed to buy no more than 30 liters (eight gallons) of gasoline at a time. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Russia’s Digital Development Ministry has unveiled a new package of bills supposedly aimed at fighting fraud. Here are some of the proposals — from new restrictions on citizens to carve-outs that allow targeting the state’s enemies. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

In late 1982, the CIA compiled a report on the “foreboding” mood in the USSR. Transparency International Russia recently obtained a declassified version via FOIA request. Here’s what it reveals. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

A woman in Crimea has been arrested for allegedly providing Ukrainian military intelligence with sensitive info about Russian assets — and plotting to poison Russian soldiers. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Asked if Trump has authorized Ukrainian long-range strikes into Russia, envoy Keith Kellogg said: “I think reading what he has said, and reading what Vice President Vance has said as well as Secretary Rubio, the answer is yes. Use the ability to hit deep.” meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Over the weekend, Russian forces launched another massive strike on Ukrainian cities. Meduza shares photos of the aftermath of the attack. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Moldova’s pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity, led by President Maia Sandu, has won more than 50 percent of the vote in the country’s parliamentary election. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

PS Lab sent two researchers to Kursk, amid Ukraine's incursion into the region last year. They witnessed a society that has developed various ways to cope with the horrors of war — none of them involving a reckoning with the politics that actually caused the conflict. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

The Kremlin’s new budget plans to take $14.4 billion from the public and funnel it into state coffers and the war. Meduza looks at whether that will be enough to plug a record deficit — and what it could mean for ordinary Russians. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

A local lawmaker in southwestern Russia has been found hanged in a forest. Investigators say there doesn’t appear to have been foul play involved, but an eyewitness said the man’s hands were tied behind his back. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Belarusian opposition figure Siarhei Tsikhanouski has come under criticism after publicly pressuring his wife, opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, not to participate in a CNN interview, during a livestream event in New York. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

After three years of war, many Russian draftees feel angry and alienated. “I feel like I’m in The Hunger Games — like we were chosen and sent to the slaughter with everyone’s approval,” one said. Another said he has “no more strength, emotions, or hope.” meduza.io/en/feature/2...

In Russia’s North Caucasus, infertility remains a taboo subject, and women who can’t conceive are often seen as “defective.” meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Airspace over Aalborg Airport in Denmark was closed for about an hour during the night after reports of unidentified drones. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that if the war with Russia can be ended, he is prepared not to seek a second term. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

If you were on Sarah Palin's Alaskan porch yesterday, you might have looked up and gotten an entirely new view of Russia. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

This year, for the first time since Russia occupied Crimea in 2014, a Chinese cargo ship was spotted docking at the peninsula’s sanctioned ports. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Russia’s school buildings have a collapsing problem. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

If Russia doesn’t end its invasion, Kremlin officials should be sure they know the location of the nearest bomb shelter, Zelensky said in a new interview. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Russia has reported its first collision between a civilian aircraft and a drone. On August 2, a passenger plane flying over Kamchatka was struck by an “unmanned aerial vehicle,” leaving a dent about four inches deep. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Despite promises to leave taxes untouched, Russia is raising the standard VAT from 20 to 22 percent. Officials admit the move is meant to keep the war chest full, but on state TV the story was barely mentioned. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Drone debris fell near a “major enterprise” in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, sparking a fire, according to the regional emergency task force. Ukrainian Telegram channels reported that EuroChem’s Belorechensk Mineral Fertilizers plant was the target. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Trump has received intelligence that Ukraine is preparing an offensive that would require support from U.S. intelligence services, according to The Wall Street Journal. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

For the second time this week, Denmark has suspended flights to and from an airport after unidentified drones were spotted in the area. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Journalists at Agentstvo have uncovered some biographical details about the hotel businessman (no, not the one you're thinking of) at the center of a power struggle in Russia's judiciary. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Russian officials have devised a new way to intimidate ex-convicts serving in the armed forces who might desert: threaten to send them back to prison for even longer. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. meduza.io/en/cards/the...

In a new podcast episode, The Naked Pravda spoke to Crisis Group's Dr. Olga Oliker about the escalating tensions in Eastern Europe and how today's situation compares to an incident 10 years ago when Turkey downed a Russian bomber near the Syrian border. meduza.io/en/episodes/...

Ukrainian drones struck the Russian port city of Novorossiysk, attacking from both the air and the sea. The city is home to Russia’s largest seaport, which houses a major oil terminal and a naval base. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Maria is studying to become a war correspondent at a Russian university. This past winter, she volunteered as a medical worker in occupied Ukraine, where she had conversations with local residents that changed her views on the war and her career plans. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

In mid-September, members of fascist groups from around the world convened in St. Petersburg, Russia, where they got a warm welcome. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

A former Russian official who escaped from a St. Petersburg courthouse on Tuesday has reportedly been found dead inside the city’s Armenian consulate. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

During an overnight drone attack, Ukraine also flooded Russia with balloons. Here’s why. meduza.io/en/cards/win...

The Russian Finance Ministry’s new draft budget raises the general value-added tax, or VAT, from 20 to 22 percent. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

“If China truly wanted this war to stop, it could compel Moscow to end the invasion,” Zelensky told the UN Security Council on Tuesday. “Without China, Putin’s Russia is nothing. Yet too often, China stays silent and distant instead of active for peace.” meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Dmitry Kozak, once Putin’s trusted “point man” and the Kremlin’s lone voice against the Ukraine war, represented rare dissent at the Kremlin’s highest levels. Read Andrey Pertsev’s deep dive into his political downfall. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Ukraine can win back its entire occupied territory “in its original form” and “maybe even go further than that," says Donald Trump. Yes, you read that correctly: says Donald Trump. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Russian federal prosecutors are going after the allegedly illegal hotel empire of one of the country's most influential judges. This unfurls as Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov collects endorsements to head Russia’s Supreme Court. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

On September 21, the third anniversary of Russia’s “partial mobilization,” police in Moscow arrested Lidia Yegorova for holding a sign outside the Defense Ministry. It had no words, only the dates “21.09.22–21.09.25.” meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Russia has started using a new tactic to hinder Western weapons shipments to Ukraine: drone strikes on railway infrastructure. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Judging by the numbers, Russia’s Eurovision alternative has some work to do before it rivals the song contest it’s meant to replace. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Norway has joined the growing list of NATO members reporting airspace violations by Russian warplanes. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Since August, residents in many Russian regions have been complaining about gasoline shortages and soaring prices. Here’s what’s driving Russia’s fuel crisis and whether things might soon return to normal. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

For the second time in a month, Russia has slapped the “foreign agent” label on a staunch supporter of the war in Ukraine. This time it’s a pro-war blogger who once said only actual foreign agents had reason to worry. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Russian air defenses shot down 36 drones headed for Moscow on Monday night, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Russian officials and pundits have cast the late American conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a defender of “traditional values,” a peacemaker, and “a prophet without honor in his own country.” meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Russia’s Energy Ministry is weighing tighter rules for diesel fuel trading on the St. Petersburg Exchange amid record prices. Sources told Kommersant the surge was driven by “unscheduled shutdowns” at refineries. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

The main airports in Copenhagen and Oslo were forced to close briefly last night after unidentified drones were spotted nearby. meduza.io/en/news/2025...