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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 17/09/2026

A Kremlin-linked Telegram channel posted an AI video featuring a six-fingered Leonardo DiCaprio to warn Russians that footage of election violations may be AI-generated and urged them to trust “only official sources.” meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 02/07/2026

As workers finish installing a gravesite memorial at Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's final resting place, mourners have begun arriving with flowers — many traveling from other cities to reach Moscow's Borisovskoye Cemetery. buff.ly/iV31HmW

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 06/06/2026

Putin claims Russian forces are advancing on every front. A Meduza analysis finds the real gains are limited to a few sectors — centered on Kramatorsk — and that Ukraine is likely to hold the city through year's end, despite a recent offensive acceleration. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 22/10/2025

Trump denies a WSJ report about U.S. assistance in Ukraine's long-range strikes inside Russia. Catch that news and other breaking stories in Meduza's daily digest. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 22/08/2025

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...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 13/08/2025

In 2025, regional authorities across Russia have continued cracking down on the kinds of jobs foreigners can hold. Here’s the list so far. meduza.io/en/short/202...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 11/07/2025

Correspondents from the independent journalists’ cooperative Bereg visited Russia's polluted Black Sea coast for a firsthand look at one of the strangest tourism seasons in recent memory. That report is now available in English. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 02/07/2025

Journalist Joshua Yaffa joins The Naked Pravda to discuss his recent New Yorker article, “Collective Punishment: Why is Donald Trump upending America’s commitment to NATO?” and how the looming threats of Russian aggression and U.S. withdrawal are pressuring Europe. meduza.io/en/episodes/...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 23/06/2025

Historian and Pulitzer-winner Benjamin Nathans joins The Naked Pravda to discuss his new book, "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement." meduza.io/en/episodes/...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 28/05/2025

Anthropologist @jeremymorris.bsky.social joins The Naked Pravda to discuss his latest book, "Everyday Politics in Russia." Tune in for talk about his extensive fieldwork, Russians' responses to the USSR's collapse, capitalist social Darwinism, and the war in Ukraine. meduza.io/en/episodes/...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 15/05/2025

Alex Jones isn't the only one with night terrors about "gay frogs." Just try sharing rainbow-wigged Pepe memes in Russia’s Novgorod region. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 13/05/2025

As the traffic police chief of Stavropol Krai, he owned a mansion featuring a gold-plated toilet and sink, along with several other properties. Now, Alexey Safonov is headed to prison for 20 years. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 29/04/2025

Dmitry Medvedev used some, erm, interesting visual aids in an educational lecture earlier this week. Kids, are you ready to learn about "deranged Nazi junkies" and "getting raped by the lords of darkness"? meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 29/04/2025

The Naked Pravda is back! And we're interviewing journalist and author Jill Dougherty about her new memoir, "My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin." (The podcast is now available in both video and audio versions.) meduza.io/en/episodes/...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 28/04/2025

The exhibition “No” has opened at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin. If you're in town, you should swing by! Admission is free. If not, take a look at these photos from opening day. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 19/04/2025

Meduza summarizes a bizarre proclamation issued this week by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service. Someone at the agency has high hopes for an alliance with the U.S. against "Eurofascism." meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 18/04/2025

A day after his predecessor was arrested for embezzlement, acting Kursk Governor Alexander Khinshtein had his office blessed by an Orthodox priest on Thursday. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 16/01/2025

London (we were kicked out from our original spot, but we found a new one 😉)

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 16/01/2025

Here’s how it looks in Berlin

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 26/12/2024

How to get canceled in Russia's Sverdlovsk region: mess with the wardrobes of Vladimir Lenin and Catherine the Great. buff.ly/3PcF8Vq

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 09/12/2024

In early Sept, Putin told an audience at the Eastern Economic Forum that the main goal of his “special military operation” is “the liberation of the Donbas.” Here's what it looks like in practice, via the Russian state's own photographers. buff.ly/3ZJsinD

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 03/12/2024

A small asteroid streaked across the sky over northern Siberia about an hour after midnight on Wednesday morning. Roughly 70 centimeters in diameter, the celestial object lit up the night for five seconds before disintegrating in a flash. buff.ly/3ZbTCcs

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 14/11/2024

Desperate evacuees from Olgovka, a village in Russia’s Kursk region that’s seen ongoing fighting throughout Ukraine’s cross-border offensive, have published a video appeal to Vladimir Putin.

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 04/11/2024

Several libraries in Russia’s Belgorod region have unpublished indexes honoring local men killed in Ukraine after antiwar activists spread fake military recruitment flyers that directed readers to the “Memory Z” lists. buff.ly/3YSiRBC

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 02/11/2024

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church warned against "attempts to revive paganism,” saying neopaganism has infiltrated certain “military circles” in Russia. He complained specifically about Halloween and Natalia Poklonskaya's Celtic cosplay. buff.ly/4f8Rvx4

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 21/10/2024

During a field trip to a military base this weekend, a group of Russian kindergarteners were gifted a diorama of the ruins of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which was destroyed in the course of Russia’s months-long offensive. meduza.io/en/short/202...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 26/09/2024

Russia dropped two guided aerial bombs on the city of Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Thursday, killing at least two people. Meduza shares photos of the attack’s aftermath. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 18/09/2024

To discuss the recent explosion of American police and diplomatic activity targeting RT and Russian covert influence operations in the U.S., The Naked Pravda spoke to RFE/RL journalist @mikeeckel.bsky.social. meduza.io/en/episodes/...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 13/09/2024

To find out where the Russian-Iranian partnership is headed and what, if anything, changes in the Ukraine War with Tehran sending ballistic missiles to Moscow, The Naked Pravda spoke to expert Dr. @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social. meduza.io/en/episodes/...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 02/08/2024

Meduza reviews the offensive and counteroffensive options available to Moscow and Kyiv in the months ahead, weighing each side's advantages and disadvantages in specific theaters of operations. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 02/08/2024

Thirteen of the political prisoners freed by Moscow yesterday were flown to Germany, where they were immediately sent for medical evaluations. Meduza photographer Evgeny Feldman went to the hospital to document his compatriots’ first hours of freedom. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 30/05/2024

Let's talk about Russia's proposed hikes to taxes on personal income and corporate profits. meduza.io/en/cards/the...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 29/05/2024

The mercenary who led an armed mutiny against Russia's military less than a year ago now has a shiny new monument in his honor at his cemetery in St. Petersburg. meduza.io/en/news/2024...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 01/03/2024

Yulia Navalnaya, who was unable to attend her husband’s funeral, shared a farewell message to him on Instagram. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 01/03/2024

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy, German Ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, and French Ambassador Pierre Levy have arrived at the church for Alexey Navalny’s funeral. meduza.io/en/live/2024...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 29/02/2024

Vladimir Putin’s Federal Assembly address was streamed in movie theaters, in educational institutions, and on giant outdoor screens throughout Russia. This photo shows students and instructors at a medical college in the city of Engels. meduza.io/en/short/202...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 20/02/2024

Dmitry Markov, 41, died in Pskov on February 16. Markov was one of the most significant photographers in modern Russia. Having overcome addiction, he chronicled everyday life in the country’s regions, and wanted to make it better. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 02/02/2024

Signs of Vladimir Putin’s reelection campaign are visible in Russian-occupied Ukraine. This billboard in Mariupol seems to show one of the apartment buildings Russia constructed after its devastating siege of the city. meduza.io/en/short/202...

A billboard promoting Vladimir Putin’s reelection campaign in Russian-occupied Mariupol.

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 02/02/2024

A Russian woman was arrested and sentenced to five days in jail this week for wearing these frog earrings. Can you guess why? (Photo from online store OZON.) meduza.io/en/news/2024...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 07/12/2023

On December 6, the Russian State Duma passed a law making home economics courses compulsory in Russian schools. Among other things, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said said the courses were necessary for girls to learn to make borsch to take care of their future husbands.

When it comes to talking about kids, about girls, they need to be prepared for adulthood: they need to be taught to make borsch because they’ll have to take care of their future husband, they need be taught how to hold a hammer.
Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. December 6, 2023.

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 27/11/2023

Near the border with Russia, villages in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region have faced unrelenting attacks. But displaced locals are returning as their communities work to repair the damage that war and occupation have done. @fabricedeprez.bsky.social reports for The Beet. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 17/11/2023

(Un)luckily for this young man in Russia’s Tula region, local educators make house visits for students who must stay home for health reasons, especially when it comes to “Lessons in Courage” meant to teach “patriotism and respect for the feats of heroes.” meduza.io/en/news/2023...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 16/11/2023

Attending hearings and interviewing her supporters, St. Petersburg outlet Bumaga and photographer Andrey Bok spent 19 months creating this photo report on antiwar activist Sasha Skochilenko. Today, she was sentenced to 7 years in prison. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 03/11/2023

The Yekaterinburg authorities are concerned by “disgraceful” penis-shaped snow sculptures that have appeared across the city in recent days. meduza.io/en/news/2023...

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 26/10/2023

For the website People of Baikal, an anonymous photographer documented the way pro-war “patriotic” imagery has become ubiquitous in Buryatia and the Irkutsk region. “These symbols are designed to spark hatred in people for their neighbor state,” he said. See the photos: meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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