In 2025, Russia plans to fully roll out the digital ruble, a new form of currency that holds the same value as the traditional ruble. Each unit has a unique code, which theoretically allows the Central Bank to restrict its use — and monitor transactions.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 03:04:05 JST Meduza in English
This week, a Moscow court sentenced two women to six years in prison each for their production of a play. Film director Andrey Zvyagintsev reflects: “A civil war is essentially in full swing in Russia. One part of society is reveling in another’s misery.”
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The Russian authorities have declared The Moscow Times an “undesirable organization,” banning the independent English-language newspaper from operating in Russia.
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Following a trip to Ukraine’s occupied Kherson region, a disillusioned Russian government worker leaked his candid conversations with locals to Meduza. Here’s what they told him about life under Russian occupation. https://t.co/vVXPizytdL
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 05:02:51 JST Meduza in English
With sanctions impacting currencies like the dollar and euro, Russians are increasingly turning to the yuan for savings, seeing it as a stable investment amidst the ruble’s volatility.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 05:12:55 JST Meduza in English
With the contract for Russian gas transit through Ukraine set to expire at the end of this year, E.U. officials are in talks with Kyiv to find ways to keep gas flowing through the country. Here are their options and the likelihood of their success.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 02:48:15 JST Meduza in English
Ukraine has stabilized the situation near Kharkiv, but Russia is continuing attacks along the entire front line. And while Ukraine waits for newly mobilized soldiers to reach the front, Russia is already bringing in its own reinforcements.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 20:11:55 JST Meduza in English
Duolingo has censored its app to comply with Russia’s law against “LGBT propaganda,” state media reports. The authorities began investigating the app earlier this year after parents complained that it contained references to the existence of LGBTQ people.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 03:20:33 JST Meduza in English
A group of wives and mothers of mobilized Russian soldiers picketed outside of the Defense Ministry building in Moscow on June 3. They brought their children with them and demanded a meeting with Defense Minister Andrey Belousov. https://t.co/wEkM6n32zl https://t.co/o2BFRquKXd
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 23:31:25 JST Meduza in English
Update: Russian Major General Ivan Popov, who was arrested on felony fraud charges earlier this week, is to remain in pre-trial detention after a Moscow military court rejected an appeal to transfer him to house arrest. https://t.co/pIsJPj2u0f https://t.co/wvFOM6iht4
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 04:31:56 JST Meduza in English
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. https://t.co/YtqmkGQeKP
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 21:55:26 JST Meduza in English
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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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 19:49:59 JST Meduza in English
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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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 19:49:04 JST Meduza in English
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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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 16:00:40 JST Meduza in English
Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the State Duma to approve the reappointment of Mikhail Mishustin as Russian prime minister.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 06:04:02 JST Meduza in English
Meduza summarizes the findings of a new investigative report that uses hidden-camera footage recorded inside Vladimir Putin's notorious "palace" on the Black Sea. (Spoiler: It seems the president has traded gaming for praying.) https://t.co/xWjW1J9lou
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 20:24:17 JST Meduza in English
The Russian authorities have denied entry to thousands of citizens of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in the last week, human rights lawyer Valentina Chupik told @agents_media. Most of them are reportedly people who have previously worked in Russia.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 18:48:05 JST Meduza in English
After months of delay and uncertainty, the U.S. has approved funding for aid to Ukraine. To learn what effects Kyiv expects the package to have on the battlefield, Meduza spoke to Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 03:43:13 JST Meduza in English
Since the start of the full-scale war, Russian soldiers returning from Ukraine have killed at least 107 people and seriously injured at least 100 others, according to @verstka_media. Most of the perpetrators were recruited from prison and granted amnesty.
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Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 03:49:08 JST Meduza in English
Team Navalny’s new film on the role Yeltsin and his associates played in Putin’s rise to power has drawn mixed reactions. Here’s what firsthand witnesses to the events of the 1990s and historians who’ve studied the period had to say.
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