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网页Russia’s 2025 federal budget outlines record military and ‘top secret’ spending — and tax hikes for ordinary citizens. Russian state investigators seized everything Alexey Navalny touched in final hours before death, new leaked documents show. Pro-Kremlin media correspondent gets caught posing as BBC journalist, Russian Orthodox Church ...
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网页Расходы на содержание Путина и его администрации вырастут на 25% — почти до 31 миллиарда рублей. Власти Петербурга не разрешили провести траурную церемонию памяти жертв нацистов. Запрет ...
30 Years since Moscow’s Monsters of Rock - Meduza
网页2021年10月14日 · On September 28, 1991, the Tushino Airfield in Moscow hosted the Monsters of Rock international music festival. AC/DC, Metallica, the Black Crowes, and Pantera all performed, while the metal band Electro Shock Therapy represented the Soviet Union. The event attracted a crowd of more than 500,000 people, making it the largest …
Welcome to Meduza Russia's top news and reporting, in English
网页2015年2月2日 · Every day we bring you the most important news and feature stories from hundreds of sources in Russia and across the former Soviet Union. Meduza is based in Riga, Latvia. Most of the people in our newsroom moved here after resigning from Lenta.ru, when Chief Editor Galina Timchenko was fired in what we believe was an act of censorship.
The ‘battle’ for Rutube Russia’s YouTube ‘alternative ... - Meduza
网页2022年5月10日 · Rutube is considered Russia’s main “alternative” to YouTube. As reported by Agentstvo and iStories in February 2022, the Russian authorities have been pouring money into domestic video platforms for more than a year, in an alleged attempt to create “substitutes” in case they move to block YouTube.. Rutube was created in the mid-2000s …
‘Born gay in the Soviet Union, living gay in Russia’ - Meduza
网页2021年8月17日 · In recent years, there has been a growing number of artistic ventures about the lives of LGBTQ+ people in Russia. One of them is the art project PASHA. Though he doesn’t reveal his real name or the details of his biography, the artist behind the project regularly publishes new works on Instagram under the handle @go_pasha_go. The …
What is the GRU? Who gets recruited to be a spy? Why are they
网页Both at home and abroad, the Russian abbreviation of the year has been “GRU” — the erstwhile but still commonly used initialism for the country’s Military Intelligence Directorate. The agency’s staff now stand accused of hacking the Democratic National Committee computer network and trying to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election; hacking …
A potential game changer How the ATACMS differs from the other …
网页On October 17, 2023, Volodymyr Zelensky reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had launched U.S.-provided Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles for the first time. “Our agreements with President Biden are being implemented,” the Ukrainian president announced. “They’re being implemented very accurately — the ATACMS have proven …
Who's behind Rybar? The Bell unmasks one of Telegram's most …
网页2022年11月18日 · Rybar, a pro-Kremlin military analysis channel on Telegram, has been cited by the world's top news agencies, and it's easy to understand why: the channel seems to have access to a wide network of informants whose claims are difficult to ignore, if impossible to verify. But despite its influence, Rybar's administrators have remained …
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网页2021年1月29日 · Earlier this month, Alexey Navalny and his team of anti-corruption researchers published an investigative report about a lavish seaside palace supposedly built as a private retreat for Vladimir Putin. Despite expressing “zero interest” in Navalny’s allegations, the Kremlin has spent much of the past two weeks repeatedly and …