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Rosatom says it has lost contact with Iran’s nuclear leadership, suspends work on Bushehr power plant

Employees of Rosatom have lost contact with the leadership of Iran’s nuclear industry amid the war in the Middle East, the head of the Russian state-owned atomic energy corporation, Alexey Likhachev, ...
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Russia redefines ‘drug propaganda’ and enforces ‘traditional values’ as new wave of laws come into effect

Last year, the Russian authorities enacted a slew of new laws that would take effect on March 1, 2026. Meduza shares a quick guide to the rules and regulations that came into force yesterday, and ...
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Upcoming U.S.-Russia-Ukraine talks face uncertainty as Middle East conflict escalates and Moscow demands territorial concessions

The escalating conflict in the Middle East has cast doubt on the time and place of planned peace talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday.
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As the full-scale war enters year five, Ukraine pushes back on a crucial front and Russia’s Donbas offensive continues. Meduza analyzes the latest battlefield develop…

Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article reviews recent battlefield developments based ...
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A mysterious sphere in a Russian forest became a cult landmark. Years after its collapse, locals still can’t agree on where it came from.

In the mid-1980s, a giant fiberglass sphere appeared deep in the forests of Russia’s Tver region. No one could quite explain ...
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The long story behind the arrest of ex-Minister Herman Halushchenko: The latest chapter in Ukraine’s wartime energy scandal

In mid-February, detectives from Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) apprehended former Energy Minister Herman ...
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Putin’s ‘palace’ pocket change: How billions in leftover construction funds went to the Russian president’s rumored romantic partner

The company that financed the construction of Vladimir Putin’s infamous Black Sea mansion ended the project with ...
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These Russians were children when Putin launched a full-scale war against Ukraine. Four years later, here’s what they think about their country — and their future.

As Russia’s war against Ukraine enters its fifth year, a new generation of Russians is coming of age. Despite state pressure ...
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Four years, 200,000 confirmed dead, yet major cities remain ‘largely untouched.’ Mediazona and BBC Russian analyze Russia’s military losses on the full-scale invasio…

Mediazona and BBC News Russian have identified more than 200,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, the outlets reported ...
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Western analysts say Russia is on track to losing 50,000 soldiers a month. A Meduza investigation suggests those estimates are based on manipulated data.

Given the battlefield stalemate in Ukraine, Kyiv’s best remaining hope is attrition — inflicting losses on the Russian army heavy enough to persuade the Kremlin that continuing the war is pointless.
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The Russian Orthodox Church is helping lure Kenyans into the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine

The Russian Orthodox Church’s exarchate in Africa is involved in a scheme recruiting Kenyan citizens to fight in Ukraine, according to journalist Ksenia Luchenko, who covers the Russian Orthodox ...
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What the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine revealed: neither side can win the war, and neither side can end it

On the surface, the fourth year of Russia’s war in Ukraine offered little new: the same slow advances through the Donbas, the same failed diplomacy, the same lack of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. But ...