Days after his August 24 arrest in Paris, Telegram founder Pavel Durov was indicted on multiple charges related to his refusal to cooperate with French law enforcement and his failure to moderate illegal activities on the platform. In Russia, the incident…

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to issue an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin back in March of 2023 has thrown a bit of a wrench into the Russian president’s travel plans. On Monday, however, Putin landed in Mongolia — an ICC member state…

Russia is pressing on with its offensive in eastern Ukraine while attempting to counter Kyiv’s operations in the Kursk region. To sustain both efforts, Moscow needs more troops, but even government officials acknowledge a decline in recruitment. In response…

The Ukrainian territories currently occupied by Russia had about 900 schools before the full-scale invasion. Many of them are now closed, while the ones still operating openly are using textbooks issued by the Russian Education Ministry. At some of these…

Since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, Russian schoolchildren have increasingly found themselves behind bars on charges of sabotage for allegedly damaging buildings or transportation infrastructure. At least 20 Russians between the ages of 15 and…

Russia is nearing the end of its latest gubernatorial and regional elections — voting that offers virtually no political competition but nevertheless tests the Kremlin’s elaborate management of public office. While early voting necessitated by Ukrainian military…

Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges for her role in the abduction of Ukrainian children, and Orthodox tycoon Konstantin Malofeev, a self-professed monarchist who…

Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article takes stock of the recent developments on the battlefield based on open-source information. Meduza has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the very start, and our detailed military…

This past weekend, the notoriously unpopular incumbent Governor Alexander Beglov won reelection in St. Petersburg with a decisive 60 percent of the vote. In the lead-up to the election, Kremlin strategists planned to mobilize loyal voters and stifle opposition…

Russia has had significantly more women than men for decades. The country’s 2020 census found that women and girls made up about 54 percent of Russia’s population, while men made up about 46 percent. Since February 2022, this gender gap has almost certainly…

At the beginning of the school year, Russia officially introduced a new course called “Family Studies.” Designed for middle and high school students, the course aims to teach “spiritual and moral values” as part of a broader effort to tackle the country’s…

One year after Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death, the Kremlin has “achieved complete control” over the mercenary group’s brand, according to a former U.S. diplomat in Burkina Faso. The paramilitary outfit, which has largely been retooled into…

Two months ago, the Russian authorities began throttling YouTube playback speeds to near-unusable levels. Initially, this had little effect on the platform’s popularity, but by early September, analysts reported a significant drop in views for many popular…

On September 5 and 6, 2004, the victims of the Beslan school siege were laid to rest. The terrorist attack was the deadliest in modern Russian history, killing 333 people, including 186 children, and injuring 783. While the authorities’ official investigation…

Vladimir Putin issued an order on Monday to expand the Russian army by 180,000 soldiers, setting the total number of the country’s active servicemen at 1.5 million.

Last week, Ukraine carried out its largest drone attack on Russia’s capital since the start of the full-scale war. More than 140 drones entered Russian territory in the early hours of September 10, according to the Russian authorities, and air defenses reportedly…

In 2023, a 16-year-old student commented on a post that called for people to attend a protest in support of Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny. A few months later, officers showed up at his family’s apartment with a search warrant, and he was summoned…

Last week, The Guardian, citing sources in the British government, reported that the U.K. had decided to allow Ukraine to use long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike targets on Russian territory. A few days later, The New York Times wrote that the…

On September 16, President Vladimir Putin issued a decree ordering the Russian military to expand its troop numbers by 180,000 soldiers, bringing the total number of active servicemen to 1.5 million. The new policy, set to take force in December, will increase…

Sumy, a Ukrainian city just 18 miles from the Russian border, has been under regular Russian attack since the start of the full-scale invasion. When Ukraine’s military launched its cross-border offensive into Russia’s Kursk region in August, the strikes intensified…