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Drone deference. Multiple factories in Kirov fined for failing to enlist workers to guard against Ukrainian drones

9 July 2026, 19:54

Pump fiction. Queues and empty tanks in thousands of Russian gas station reviews as Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries drain fuel supply

8 July 2026, 19:19

We’ve lost all our donations from Russia. Mediazona cannot survive without you

6 July 2026, 16:37

Russian losses in the war with Ukraine. Mediazona count, updated

230,600 deaths confirmed by July 3

3 July 2026, 9:00

Drone deference. Multiple factories in Kirov fined for failing to enlist workers to guard against Ukrainian drones

9 July 2026, 19:54

Pump fiction. Queues and empty tanks in thousands of Russian gas station reviews as Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries drain fuel supply

8 July 2026, 19:19

We’ve lost all our donations from Russia. Mediazona cannot survive without you

6 July 2026, 16:37

Russian losses in the war with Ukraine. Mediazona count, updated

230,600 deaths confirmed by July 3

3 July 2026, 9:00

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Seven years for a drag bar. Russia hands down lengthy “LGBT extremism” sentences to night club owners and staff
Article 29 June 2026, 19:53
Running on empty. Our map of fuel rationing in 56 Russian regions, as Ukrainian strikes on refineries drain gasoline supply
Article 26 June 2026, 20:14
Self‑abasement as “civic duty”. First conviction in the “LGBT extremism” publishing case, as ex‑Popcorn Books sales director turns on his bosses
Article 25 June 2026, 19:33
“Congrats, you’re off to war”. As videos of enlistment raids in Penza go viral, we spoke to a man seized off the street and sent to Ukraine last November
Article 23 June 2026, 17:13
“Loaded them up like convicts”. The wife of a man seized in a massive Penza enlistment raid on how he was sent to war against his will
Article 19 June 2026, 21:37
Deported over a prayer for Trump. American evangelical pastor fined and detained after a Kamchatka church talk is ruled unlawful missionary work
Article 18 June 2026, 19:45
A sentence with no one to carry it. Russian court gives a Ukrainian 15 years for arson under occupation, two years after he died fighting for Ukraine
Article 17 June 2026, 18:45
“My charge is a prison regime screw‑up in itself”. Political prisoners moved to supposedly “lighter” prisons are isolated in cold dark cells for months
Article 12 June 2026, 19:20
Criminal kingpin Artur Denisultanov killed in the war in Ukraine. He had been accused of an assassination, kidnapping and murder attempts
Article 10 June 2026, 17:38
“You are not Russian anymore”. How Alexandra Pugach, the daughter of Vladimir Putin’s trusted representative, was convicted for supporting Ukraine
Article 5 June 2026, 20:50
No to human rights. Memorial and 35 “subdivisions” declared “extremist”, targeting their archival work and support for political prisoners
Article 4 June 2026, 18:50
“I am Russian! But not a Russian citizen”. A Ukrainian serviceman’s defiant address to a Russian court that upheld his 21‑year prison sentence
Article 3 June 2026, 18:22
Moscow turns the screw on Yerevan. Vladimir Putin issues Armenia a bizarre pre‑election warning, invoking the Ukraine war and citing GMO fears
Article 29 May 2026, 21:38
“We wasted 15 meters of duct tape on you”. 61‑year‑old Gennady Kapralov, captured in the occupied Melitopol, testifies about torture
Article 29 May 2026, 20:44
Quod licet Kremlin. Russian prisoner loses appeal to revisit 14‑year Taliban‑backing conviction despite Moscow unbanning the group
Article 27 May 2026, 17:49
American basketball player Donica Cosby quit her Belarus team after a border search and questioning. She is now on Russia’s wanted list
Article 26 May 2026, 12:05
13‑year‑old boy accused of “LGBT propaganda” in Russia. He now faces being sent to a special school for juvenile offenders
Article 22 May 2026, 16:03
Ukrainian military retiree sentenced to 18 years by Russia for serving in the Azov Battalion. He insists that he served in another unit
Article 21 May 2026, 13:39
“I’d rather be in prison”. Some Russian soldiers are begging to be jailed rather than fight in Ukraine, but the system won’t let them
Article 20 May 2026, 19:40
“Day and night I am tormented by my own powerlessness”. Human rights activist Nina Litvinova, 80, has taken her own life over the war and the plight of political prisoners
Article 15 May 2026, 17:12
Russia’s wanted list. An updated and user‑friendly database
Latest update: March 2025
Article 13 May 2026, 10:00