For more details, read @lilia_yapparova‘s new investigation into the deportation, indoctrination, and surveillance of Ukrainian children. https://t.co/aBXGOHc6sA
Leonid Volkov, the former chairman of Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, was reportedly attacked with tear gas and beaten with a hammer outside of his home in Lithuania on Tuesday. https://t.co/TsYjJcWLkU
Russia has made a show of allocating money to healthcare in the occupied areas, but people there say corruption is high, medication is often scarce, and there’s a critical shortage of medical workers. “It wasn’t like this before Russia came,” one man said. https://t.co/FgHL7QyyYt
Hours before Alexey Navalny died in a remote Russian prison, Vladimir Putin met with oligarch Roman Abramovich to discuss releasing Navalny in a prisoner exchange with the U.S. and Germany, sources told @agents_media. https://t.co/TJEdKc1q7w
🍷 In January 2024, posted a mini-essay titled “Why Ukraine is dangerous for its residents.” In it, he argued that Ukraine should not exist in any form, saying that the “risk of renewed clashes will persist indefinitely” as long as Ukraine is a country. https://t.co/C1XQ07oezA
Since the start of the full-scale war, orphaned and unaccompanied Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken from occupied territories to Russia. @istories_eng learned what training is provided to their potential Russian guardians. https://t.co/BdMPnPjQVq
The Russian authorities are afraid of the Ukrainian children they’ve deported. To counteract the “threats” these children purportedly pose, the Kremlin is investing millions of dollars in measures to surveil their online activity and “reeducate” them. https://t.co/aBXGOHc6sA
Russian lawmakers have submitted a draft law to the State Duma that would annul the Soviet Union’s 1954 decision to transfer control of Crimea to Ukraine. https://t.co/guDT1Mrh3U
In February, the Russian authorities launched a series of cyberattacks against Meduza more intense than any we’ve ever faced. The assault began around the time of Alexey Navalny’s death—and about a month before Russia’s upcoming presidential election. 🧵 https://t.co/inZfd4O7gz
1. The Russian authorities know we use mirrors (extra servers containing copies of our site). They constantly find these servers and block them, after which we launch new ones. For the last two years, it’s taken them about two weeks to find each new server. Now — 10–20 minutes.
2. Attackers are increasingly trying to disable our site using methods like DDoS attacks. A few days ago, we recorded an attack in which traffic to our site surged to about 200 times its usual level. We expect to see similar or larger attacks during Putin’s upcoming election.
5. We recently noticed an unusual surge in subscribers to our Telegram channel. These new followers are likely part of a plan to report the channel en masse for alleged violations of Telegram’s terms of service.
From local outages to blockages of unbanned websites to attempts to interfere with messaging platforms, the Russian authorities appear to be preparing for sweeping Internet blockages — not just against websites but on the level of entire platforms and communication channels.
3. Three to four times a minute, attackers try to enter stolen credit card information into our crowdfunding payment system, hoping to break it and force banks to stop working with us. We know how to deal with these tactics, but their frequency has skyrocketed in recent weeks.
Journalist Alexander Chernykh: “There are two lines — one [for the funeral] and another to get into the back of the first line. One person told me that he’s not even hoping to join the farewell ceremony, “but this line, for me, is the closest thing possible to a protest rally.”
In a video posted on Alexey Navalny’s YouTube channel on Monday, the opposition leader’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, announced that she plans to continue his work in his absence. https://t.co/ESw658mQj2
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling for the European Commission not to release frozen funds to Hungary until Budapest conducts reforms to meet E.U. democratic standards and condemning Hungary’s leader for voting against aid to Ukraine. https://t.co/mBaStF78qy
A Bashkortostan court has sentenced activist Fail Alsynov to four years in prison, two days after his prosecution caused about 1,000 demonstrators to take to the streets. Authorities have blocked off the road to the court and may be jamming the Internet. https://t.co/E7wL5MBUSA