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WEBMeduza’s daily newsletter: Monday, September 16, 2024 What the Battle of the Leonids tells us about the state of Russia’s exiled opposition, Meta bans RT following U.S. allegations, and Doctors Without Borders forced to leave Russia. Photos and voices from Sumy, a Ukrainian border city facing constant Russian attacks.
30 Years since Moscow’s Monsters of Rock - Meduza
WEBOct 13, 2021 · 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 rock concert in the history of both the USSR and the Russian Federation.
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Who's behind Rybar? The Bell unmasks one of Telegram's most …
WEBTies to Prigozhin. In March 2020, Rybar’s creators themselves announced that there were two of them: one “military interpreter [and] OSINT specialist” and one “political strategist, a member of the old aristocracy.” The figures claimed to have “specific experience and knowledge, thanks to which we can allow ourselves to mock the level of military-analytical expertise in Russia and ...
‘I pulled the trigger on the war’ - Meduza
WEBOn Friday, July 21, a court ordered the arrest of Igor Strelkov (whose real surname is Girkin), a convicted war criminal, former commander of troops fighting for the self-proclaimed Donetsk “people’s republic,” former FSB officer, and, until today, pro-war and anti-Putin blogger. The criminal case against him was opened on charges of making “public calls for extremist activity on the ...
Resurrecting Rutube The Russian authorities have been ... - Meduza
WEBFeb 9, 2022 · The Russian authorities have been sinking money into domestic alternatives to YouTube for over a year, says a new investigation from iStories and Agentstvo. Allegedly, these Russian video platforms are meant to serve as substitutes in the event that Russia’s censorship agency bans YouTube altogether. However, sources say blocking YouTube would be a last resort — apparently, the authorities ...
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WEBPlease, help Meduza survive. Our future depends only on you. Thank you! Support. Dear readers, For more than two years now, we have been unable to receive funds from Russia — even though the majority of our readers live there. At first, we thought this meant the end of Meduza. And yet, here we are, still standing, thanks to people like you in ...
Ichkeria dreamin’ A new Chechen separatist army is being
WEBDec 15, 2022 · That these three figures, each influential but rarely cooperative, are working in unison is remarkable by itself. Perhaps even more so is the evident support they are receiving from the Ukrainian government: Ukraine’s parliament recognized the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria’s independence, granted citizenship to Azhiev Ukrainian, and formed a parliamentary committee for “Free Ichkeria.”
General Vlasov’s return - Meduza
WEBOct 24, 2022 · Andrey Vlasov, the infamous Russian officer who switched sides to the Nazis during World War II, was executed by hanging in 1946. More than seven decades later, his specter still haunts Russian cultural memory, albeit drowned out by pobedobesie (Moscow’s hyperbolic Victory Day celebrations) and the Kremlin’s insistent efforts to straitjacket the tragic nuances of Russian history into a ...
Bring out your dead A joint investigation by Meduza and …
WEBJul 9, 2023 · Roughly 47,000. That is how many Russian soldiers have died so far in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a joint study by journalists at Meduza and Mediazona and Tubingen University statistician Dmitry Kobak. Analyzing existing reports about published obituaries, mortality data from the Federal State Statistics Service, and extensive records from the National Probate Registry, we ...