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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 03:38:34 JST Meduza in English
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 04:28:14 JST Meduza in English
Update: Russia’s Defense Ministry issued, then removed, a statement claiming the Ukrainian detachment attempting to break through into the Kursk region had retreated after suffering losses. Local authorities say the fighting continues and the situation at the border is “tense.” https://t.co/2AOVFmDoGN
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 04:16:11 JST Meduza in English
According to observations inside Russia and Meduza's own source, the state authorities are now throttling YouTube playback speeds on many Internet connections to 128 kbps — not enough to stream videos at resolutions above 240p (12x below high definition). https://t.co/138Qk0uGAY
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 03:29:00 JST Meduza in English
Meduza is pleased to be releasing a new documentary about Igor Kon, the first Soviet sexologist and a defender of equality and tolerance until his death in 2011. It will be available for free in September, but you can watch it early by supporting our work.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 00:14:05 JST Meduza in English
Russian politicians are increasingly speaking about Joseph Stalin not as a tyrant or orchestrator of mass repressions but as a charismatic and strong leader. The Kremlin has called his veneration “the prerogative of local authorities.” From @thenewtabio:
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 03:07:33 JST Meduza in English
Newly freed Russian opposition politicians Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, and Andrei Pivovarov are holding their first post-exchange press conference in Bonn, Germany. Meduza shares key quotes from the event in English:
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 06:46:33 JST Meduza in English
The source also reportedly confirmed that Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Yashin would be included in the swap, as well as former Navalny associates and U.S. citizens. https://t.co/OtXoq4kQrG
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 06:00:04 JST Meduza in English
Vladimir Putin issued seven classified decrees on Tuesday that could be pardons for prisoners to be traded in a possible swap, according to @istories_eng.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 22:14:41 JST Meduza in English
Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that more than doubles the Russian army’s sign-on bonus, offering new recruits $4,600 to fight in Ukraine. https://t.co/r76jPHeVCa
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 21:54:28 JST Meduza in English
Update: Kevin Lik, a Russian teenager serving a four-year prison sentence on treason charges, has also reportedly been transferred out of his prison, bringing the total number of Russian political prisoners whose whereabouts are suddenly unknown to six.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 04:36:47 JST Meduza in English
Separatists in northern Mali claimed a major victory over Russian Wagner Group forces over the weekend, with a top commander and a popular military blogger among the reported dead. A Ukrainian intelligence spokesman hinted that Kyiv played a key role.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 03:17:20 JST Meduza in English
Despite Putin’s call for soldiers who fought in Ukraine to hold “leading positions” in government, only a few have managed to run for even the lowest-level positions. @paperpaper_ru spoke with several soldiers-turned-would-be politicians to learn more.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 21:48:20 JST Meduza in English
Eight cars of a passenger train derailed in Russia’s Volgograd region after the train collided with a truck that had driven onto the tracks. Around 140 people were reportedly injured.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 23:51:52 JST Meduza in English
A man attempted to set himself on fire near Lenin’s Mausoleum on Red Square on Friday. Russian media identified the man as Vladimir Arsenyev, the head of a Defense Ministry contractor who was reportedly accused of disrupting defense shipments in 2023. https://t.co/5zDhY1aGy3
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 18:49:39 JST Meduza in English
A car explosion in Moscow injured two people, including a man reported to be a Russian Defense Ministry officer. Law enforcement is investigating the incident as a potential “assassination attempt related to the victim’s professional activities.”
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:15:37 JST Meduza in English
Moscow residents will now receive 1.9 million rubles ($21,777) upon signing a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry. According to the city administration, this brings total payments for the first year of service to over 5.2 million rubles ($59,599).
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:02:33 JST Meduza in English
The Kremlin’s plans to get the unpopular Alexander Beglov reelected as St. Petersburg governor include painting him as a “giant of intellect and politics,” handpicking weak “opponents,” and not letting voters know there’s an election.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 04:14:41 JST Meduza in English
Nuclear physicist Alexander Makhnev was born in Luhansk and educated in Kyiv before later working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Now, he’s the chief designer at an organization developing drones for the Russian military. https://t.co/yXSBfiioru
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 03:43:29 JST Meduza in English
Russia paid soldiers and their families about 3 trillion rubles (over $30 billion) in the last year, accounting for roughly 8 percent of its federal budget expenditures, according to a new estimate from @ReRussiaorg_eng.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 03:41:45 JST Meduza in English
In May, Russia began an offensive to seize Ukrainian territory for a “buffer zone” to shield its Belgorod region. Yesterday, however, the region’s governor announced entry restrictions in 14 border villages — effectively creating a “buffer zone” in Russia.
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