Notices by Meduza in English (meduza_en@masto.ai), page 5

More than 60 people have now been detained throughout Russia, including at least 26 in Kazan and at least 12 in Moscow, according to @ovdinfo_en.
https://t.co/JUBtTB9N7j https://t.co/SFpx1Qra0W

Some Russians have been taking their presidential ballots to Alexey Navalny’s grave, writing in the opposition leader’s name and placing them in the mountain of flowers that mourners continue to bring, two weeks after Navalny’s funeral. Video from @smirusnews https://t.co/wnT0PMvnS0

With Russia’s presidential vote days away, Putin sat down with TV presenter Dmitry Kiselyov for a lengthy interview that touched on topics ranging from Finland’s NATO accession to Poland’s alleged ulterior motives in Ukraine to Russia’s presence in Africa.
https://t.co/Xe5ilrNiJ1

The Russian state news agency TASS reported Wednesday morning that a drone had crashed into the FSB’s regional headquarters in the border city of Belgorod. Soon after, TASS deleted the story, and several local news outlets followed suit.
https://t.co/cyzZaSvUBS

Navalny ally Leonid Volkov called the hammer attack he survived on Tuesday a “gangster-style greeting from Putin.” Lithuanian anti-terrorism authorities are investigating the assault. Navalny’s spokesperson said there may have been two attackers. Details:
https://t.co/52ivr7nN68

“Speak honestly with the child about the fact that his loved ones were killed or his home has been destroyed. […] Say directly that they have died,” the guide tells teachers. Eventually, it continues, the child should start to feel pride and patriotism for Russia.

“[This software] scours the Internet, monitoring online activity and helping law enforcement identify opposition activists and opponents of the Russian authorities,” one source from the Education Ministry put it.

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.