In the span of a month, Russia has arrested four generals on felony charges in what some are calling a Defense Ministry “purge.” Here’s what we know about the arrests so far.
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Russia has been using a shadow fleet of decrepit second-hand tankers to circumvent the G7’s oil price cap. IStories Media found out how the network works and what the West is doing to stop it.
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Yesterday, Russia published a proposal to unilaterally change its sea borders with Lithuania and Finland. Today, state media reported there were no such plans, and the document is gone. What’s going on? A “hybrid influence” operation, suggests Finland.
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After serving three back-to-back jail terms for anti-war posts, Ukrainian medical student Serhiy Hulko managed to leave Russia. Meduza’s sources say Maria Vorontsova — the medical school’s deputy dean and Putin’s daughter — was asked to intervene.
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Volodymyr Zelensky’s term as president officially ended yesterday, but with the country at war, elections have been postponed. Here’s what Ukrainian politicians and ordinary citizens had to say about him staying in power.
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What will it take to set Ukraine’s economy up for lasting success after the war? Economist Jan Pieter Krahnen, one of the co-authors of a new CEPR report on Ukraine’s reconstruction, spoke to Meduza about why foreign grants and loans won’t be enough.
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In a new project titled “Inversion,” visual artist Danila Tkachenko juxtaposes the devastation and human cost of Russia’s war in Ukraine with Europe’s most famous landmarks.
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In The Beet’s latest feature story, Will Mawhood digs into what’s eating Latvia’s restaurant scene, which recently received its own Michelin Guide but is still struggling to stay afloat. meduza.io/en/feature/202… Meduza in English

Russia has no plans to capture Kharkiv “as of today,” Vladimir Putin said Friday. He also claimed that Russia’s new offensive in the Kharkiv region is aimed at creating a “buffer zone” to protect Russian border areas from shelling. meduza.io/en/news/2024/0…

“Different possibilities existed and exist for Donbas.” Historian Hiroaki Kuromiya on the complex past and uncertain future of Ukraine’s war-torn east. meduza.io/en/feature/202…

Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainian troops have successfully “stabilized” the situation along the northern front in the Kharkiv region, where Russia launched a new offensive last week.
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Meduza has obtained a new set of Kremlin media guidelines for propagandists covering Putin’s post-inauguration cabinet reshuffle. Here’s what the instructions say — and what they neglect to mention. meduza.io/en/feature/202…

A new investigation from Bёрстка shows that Russia has been bolstering its military presence in Libya for the past few months, sending equipment and troops disguised as mercenaries.
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12 years ago, thousands of Muscovites took to the streets to protest alleged election fraud — something that seems almost unfathomable now, due in part to draconian anti-protest laws imposed in response to the demonstrations. Our Russian readers look back:
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Alina always thought of politics as “something distant and boring” — until her country launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Now she’s living in fear for herself and her family, all because she and her fiancé dared to oppose the war.
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Russia temporarily suspended flights in and out of multiple Tatarstan airports this morning after a Ukrainian drone was reportedly shot down in the region. One of the delayed flights contained a Taliban delegation heading to Russia for a conference.
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Russian troops are advancing in Ukraine’s northeast, but it doesn’t look like they’re preparing for an attack on Kharkiv or attempting to create a “buffer zone.” Meduza breaks down what the Russian command might be planning.
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Despite the risk of deportation looming over them, many Russians who fled to Georgia after facing repressions at home feel they have a duty to join the protests against their adopted country’s “foreign agents” bill, which passed in its final reading today.
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Yuri Kuznetsov, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Main Personnel Directorate, has been arrested on felony bribery charges. This marks the second arrest of a high-ranking Defense Ministry official for alleged corruption in recent weeks.
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Putin has appointed former Security Council head Nikolai Patrushev and Tula Governor Alexey Dyumin as presidential aides. Patrushev was replaced on the Security Council by former Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu on Sunday. More on this and other new changes:
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