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1Feb 20, '24X (formerly Twitter) has suspended the account of Alexey Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya. She created the account just one day ago, when she announced she would continue the work 36.2×888k2k81953
2Mar 23, '24The Putin administration has instructed Russian state-funded and pro-government media to emphasize possible “traces” of Ukrainian involvement in their reporting on Friday’s Crocus 30.5×748k1k43659
3Oct 12, '22Russia's "irrecoverable losses" in the war with Ukraine have just become known: according to an FSB source, that figure is 90K. This includes troops who were killed, went missing, 27.1×08k2.3k285
4Sep 27, '22In the days since Vladimir Putin announced mobilization in Russia, myriad evidence of both illegal conscriptions and the sorry state of the Russian army has appeared online. Meduza14.5×03.9k1.2k405
5Jul 10, '23In a new joint investigation with @mediazona_en and statistician Dmitry Kobak, we use previously unstudied inheritance records to estimate the number of all Russian soldiers killed13.6×335k35412250
6Mar 14, '22During tonight's Russian state news broadcast on Channel One, an editor at the network named Marina Ovsyannikova ran on stage with an anti-war banner. She also prerecorded a statem13.1×03.8k1.2k82
7Feb 25, '22Russia is sending conscript soldiers to fight against Ukraine, their family members say.12.1×02.9k1.3k181
8Jun 15, '17If you're a Russian young person, this exchange may have been the most important and revealing in Putin's entire 4-hour-long telethon today.11.1×02.4k1.4k1
9Sep 12, '18Another poisoning scare is unfolding in Moscow. The latest potential victim is @pussyrrriot member Pyotr Verzilov, who's currently hospitalized in critical condition.10×01.5k1.6k36
10Jun 9, '19For the first time in their history, three Russian newspapers will print identical above-the-fold designs on their front pages. They read "I/WE ARE IVAN GOLUNOV."7.6×01.8k95825
11Jan 26, '23The Kremlin just outlawed us. Meduza is now officially an “undesirable organization” in Russia.7.4×183k4821899
12Mar 3, '22View post on X7.0×02.6k42982
13Jun 23, '23A commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (a paramilitary formation fighting on the side of Ukraine) has taken a stance on Yevgeny Prigozhin’s insurrection, calling him a “patriot6.2×152k33610810
14Jul 15, '22Vladimir Putin says one of Russia’s war aims is to “denazify” Ukraine. But the Kremlin has conveniently ignored the fact that there are avowed neo-Nazis fighting on Moscow’s side.6.1×01.8k56186
15Mar 1, '24U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy, German Ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, and French Ambassador Pierre Levy have arrived at the church for Alexey Navalny’s funeral.5.5×135k1.5k36232
16Jan 19, '21Following Navalny’s arrest, his team has released an investigation revealing Putin’s $1.35-billion “palace” on the Black Sea.5.5×02.1k33919
17Mar 14, '22Folks, Meduza has redesigned its crowdfunding after being disconnected from our supporters in Russia. We now turn to you—our global audience—to replace those 30k donators. Help us 5.3×01.3k58151
18Mar 3, '22An entire era of independent journalism has ended today in Russia.5.0×01.2k62227
19Nov 21, '18BREAKING NEWS: The head of Russia's GRU spy agency is reported dead “after a long and serious illness”4.9×06456019
20Mar 1, '24Alexey Navalny’s grave.4.8×119k55914224
21Jun 24, '23Putin’s special aircraft Il96–PU, equipped with military communications systems, left Moscow at 2:16 p.m., flying in the direction of St. Petersburg. No destination had been logged4.7×115k35513212
22Apr 13, '22St. Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko swapped the price tags at a grocery store with information about civilian casualties in Mariupol. She’s now facing years in prison for sprea4.6×01.3k47131
23Oct 25, '19Breaking: a soldier has shot and killed eight of his fellow servicemembers at a Russian military base.4.5×072759929
24Mar 11, '22Putin is reportedly cracking down on the FSB agency that botched Russia’s Ukraine prep. For Meduza, @AndreiSoldatov and @irinaborogan tell the story behind this bad intelligence.3.9×0868401107
25Feb 16, '24Alexey Navalny, telling Russians not to give up when asked what he would tell them in the event he’s killed. From Daniel Roher’s 2022 film “Navalny.”3.8×94k55423536
26Aug 16, '22Reporting the facts is a crime in Putin’s Russia. This doesn’t stop Meduza from doing its job: helping our millions of readers to maintain access to reliable information about Russ3.8×085928837
27Sep 20, '22In Russia, searches for the phrase "How to leave Russia" surged on Google this evening — right when Putin was scheduled to address the nation following the passage of new laws on "3.7×099540121
28Aug 8, '24YouTube has completely stopped working in Russia. Thousands of users have reported that they can’t watch any videos or access YouTube’s site.3.7×91k37815727
29Sep 25, '22The FSB reports that 261,000 men have fled Russia between Wednesday, when the “partial” mobilization was announced, and Saturday night.3.7×093335437
30Mar 17, '24Some 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 mourne3.6×89k60121316
31Mar 10, '2226-year-old feminist activist Alexandra Kaluzhskikh managed to smuggle an actively recording phone into the interrogation room after her arrest at a protest in Moscow last week. Sh3.6×087941568
32Feb 17, '21⚡️ The European Court of Human Rights has called on Russia to release Alexey @Navalny immediately.3.6×01.6k1593
33Apr 4, '24Russian Telegram channels are sharing a propaganda video in which a “former American soldier” describes his experience in the Russian army. According to @agents_media, the man is a3.5×86k41117433
34Aug 8, '19BREAKING: Russian officials have started freezing the bank accounts of @Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation and its staff.3.5×01.1k3521
35Aug 6, '19If you thought Moscow's police beatings were cruel, sit down for this one. Moscow prosecutors have announced that they will fight to take the custody of a young child away from two3.5×054650612
36May 27, '22Sources close to the Kremlin tell Meduza that Russia’s top leadership is considering another assault on Kyiv and expecting to win a war of attrition against Kyiv and its Western al3.4×059035351
37Mar 6, '22In photos: Anti-war protesters took to the streets in cities across Russia today. Law enforcement arrested thousands.3.3×01k30419
38Mar 21, '23Meduza has learned from knowledgeable sources that the ICC’s arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin came as a major surprise to the Kremlin. And it’s likely to make his 2023 domestic PR3.3×81k35710710
39Mar 5, '22In the past few days, Russia’s federal government has blocked or forced offline and off the airwaves virtually every remaining independent news outlet in the country. This crackdow3.2×066245029
40Feb 2, '21Meduza presents a full English-language translation of @Navalny’s remarks in court today. “They’re imprisoning one person to frighten millions.”3.1×095026521
41Jun 19, '23Alexey Navalny has announced a new project that he describes as an “electoral campaign against the war and Putin.” The initiative will target “hundreds of groups,” including drafte3.0×73k450803
42Feb 20, '24In 2020, Christo Grozev identified the men who poisoned Alexey Navalny. Now he hopes to get to the bottom of Navalny’s death. “There’s only one possibility I’ve ruled out: that Nav2.9×70k71517037
43Apr 18, '22Bogdanivka residents told Meduza about atrocities committed by Russian soldiers when their village was occupied in March. Meduza reconstructed the events.2.8×054034572
44Mar 4, '22Well, folks, our website is now blocked in Russia. We’re ready for that, but we couldn’t prepare for a financial collapse that’s decimated our Russian crowdfunding. So, we’re turni2.8×065135628
45Mar 2, '22Russia’s Education Ministry is rolling out a special campaign to ensure that the nation, especially its schoolchildren, understand that the war in Ukraine isn’t a “war.” More detai2.8×044130854
46Aug 30, '18This day in history. On August 30, 1958, Anna Politkovskaya was born in New York City. She would become one of Russia's most famous investigative reporters, until her murder in Oct2.7×06573804
47Jun 7, '19Want to help our investigative journalist, Ivan Golunov, who was just arrested in Moscow? Share his latest investigative report about Russian predatory creditors, now available in 2.6×03754885
48Sep 17, '21In a nightmare scenario that Alexey Navalny’s team has feared for years, Apple and Google caved today to Russian officials’ censorship demands, jeopardizing a critical effort to di2.6×049833512
49Jan 21, '21⚡️ Navalny’s press secretary @Kira_Yarmysh and Anti-Corruption Foundation employee Georgy @alburov have been arrested in Moscow.2.6×01.1k1494
50Mar 3, '22Russian lawmakers have put forward legislation that would conscript into the military anyone prosecuted for protesting the invasion of Ukraine. More details here:2.5×032927431
51Feb 26, '22Announced just now in Moscow. Stay tuned for our continued coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and attacks against Ukrainian cities and civilians, following the Kremlin’s decl2.5×053329021
52May 9, '22Two journalists from the Kremlin-controlled news site Lenta published about 20 articles with names like "Vladimir Putin has turned into a pathetic, paranoid dictator" on Monday mor2.5×064327624
53Apr 14, '2090 years ago today in 1930, Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky died in Moscow at the age of 36, after shooting himself. Mayakovsky's funeral, three days later, was the third largest e2.4×071122336
54Dec 25, '17You can now read an English translation of Alexey @Navalny's speech earlier today to Russia's Central Election Commission, which has rejected his presidential candidacy bid.2.3×06332810
55Jun 7, '19BREAKING: Journalists have begun picketing in multiple Russian cities to demand the release of 'Meduza' journalist Ivan Golunov.2.2×04483304
56Aug 12, '22Meduza has obtained an archive of more than 1 million hours of videos from polling stations in Russia’s Sept. 2021 parliamentary elections. The footage indicates that these lawmake2.2×054423153
57Mar 30, '22Twelve Rosgvardia officers lost their jobs after refusing to join the war in Ukraine. But their lawyer says they can't be required to join — because according to the Kremlin, it's 2.2×063919623
58Apr 23, '21Dear Readers, Earlier today, the Russian authorities designated Meduza as a “foreign agent” media outlet. We reject this decision categorically and intend to challenge the designat2.2×06032154
59Jun 11, '19BREAKING: The case against Meduza correspondent Ivan Golunov is closed and Golunov will be freed from house arrest. (!!!)2.1×04752344
60Mar 16, '22Meduza spoke to former colleagues and industry insiders to piece together the story of Marina Ovsyannikova and the collapse of morale in Russian state television.2.0×049819640
61Nov 29, '2182 years ago, tomorrow on Nov. 30, 1939, the USSR invaded Finland with 450,000 men and bombed Helsinki. Despite superior military strength, especially in tanks and aircraft, the So2.0×054820311
62May 3, '22Why do Russians support the war against Ukraine? After weeks of investigating, journalist Shura Burtin recounts how fear and a sense of humiliation defeated Russians’ humanity.2.0×036317274
63Mar 3, '22Meduza is publishing the following editorial, ahead of what we expect to be the Russian authorities’ decision to block us and the rest of the independent news media.1.9×044425112
64Apr 7, '22NEW: Meduza obtains drone footage corroborating evidence of civilian murders in Bucha during Russian occupation.1.9×045621131
65Nov 19, '18Moscow has accused @Billbrowder of poisoning Sergey Magnitsky, just as Russia is expected to win Interpol's next presidency. How's that for timing?1.8×03152562
66Sep 23, '18Remember how @bellingcat dug up the passport data on the suspected Salisbury attackers? @fontanka_news has found that the GRU's funny passport numbers link to whole web of likely s1.7×03602436
67Sep 23, '22Meduza has learned from a source close to one of Russia's federal ministries that the Kremlin plans to conscript 1.2 million people — four times more than Defense Minister Sergey S1.7×035222216
68Apr 7, '22Using all of the evidence at our disposal, Meduza reconstructs the Russian occupation of Bucha and debunks the Kremlin’s lies about war crimes.1.7×040719332
69Mar 14, '20So far, 45 people in Russia have tested positive for COVID-19.1.7×06281243
70Aug 15, '1929 years ago today, on August 15, 1990, Soviet rock legend Viktor Tsoi, who co-founded the band Kino, died in a car collision in Latvia at the age of 28. Tsoi is regarded as one of1.7×04751759
71Mar 21, '22Alexey Navalny’s team of anti-corruption investigators have linked a mysterious, $700-million superyacht to Vladimir Putin.1.6×05411346
72Jun 16, '2057 years ago today in 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, flying a solo mission on the Vostok 6. She orbited the Earth 48 times over the course of almost th1.6×05091485
73May 16, '20129 years ago today, on May 15, 1891, author Mikhail Bulgakov was born in the Russian imperial city of Kiev. He went on to scribble a few books about talking animals and foreign pr1.5×05091285
74Feb 27, '22The Russian government famously doesn’t leak. Until now. Big scoop by @bbcrussian.1.5×039916624
76Mar 24, '21The state of Alexey @Navalny‘s health is getting worse, his lawyer says.1.5×05691032
77May 9, '1972 years ago today, on May 8, 1946, two Estonian schoolgirls blew up a Soviet War monument to avenge the destruction of war memorials to the Estonian War of Independence. Both girl1.4×03891624
78Dec 17, '1986 years ago today, in 1933, the USSR re-criminalized sexual contact between men. Russia had lifted the ban just 11 years earlier, in the wake of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Gay1.4×032716619
79Feb 15, '19Here's what we know so far about the criminal case against one of Russia's biggest foreign investors, U.S. citizen Michael Calvey. (Venture capitalists are calling it a disaster fo1.4×026218810
80Mar 14, '22Wir brauchen eure Unterstützung 🇩🇪! Der Kreml will verhindern, dass Russland die Wahrheit über den Krieg erfährt. Wir werden zensiert, unsere Reporter sind in Gefahr. Bitte hilf 1.4×034914510
81May 26, '22In the last week, statements by officials in Kyiv have become more alarming, as if Ukraine’s leadership is preparing the nation for a major defeat in the Donbas. Meduza summarizes 1.4×031312230
82Apr 23, '21Hi, everyone! We’re Russia’s latest “foreign agent”! 👋🕵️1.4×04121074
83Mar 6, '20Valentina Tereshkova is 83 today. In 1963, at the age of 26, she became the first (and still youngest) woman in outer space. (The USA didn't put a woman in space until Sally Ride i1.3×04091398
84Sep 26, '22According to Novaya Gazeta Europe, poet and activist Artem Kamardin was beaten and raped with a dumbbell by Moscow police on Monday in apparent retaliation for his role in an anti-1.3×033914610
85Oct 5, '22The head of the Duma’s defense committee told the Ministry of Defense to “stop lying” on live TV1.3×036310415
86Mar 8, '22⚡️This just in: We’re granting open access to all of Meduza’s content about the war in Ukraine for free distribution.1.3×040112610
88Sep 21, '22Protests against mobilization have started across Russia today in response to Vladimir Putin’s mobilization declaration. A thread on the protests around Russia. It will be updated 1.2×03641215
89Jun 30, '22Journalists from Proekt analyzed all of military accomplishments reported by Russia since the war began. The Russian Defense Ministry has some explaining to do.1.2×04127921
90Jul 23, '21⚡ Federal officials have just designated The Insider (Bellingcat’s main partner in Russia) as a “foreign agent.”1.2×03301386
91Aug 12, '22Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatiev spent two months fighting against Ukraine. Then he quit the army and wrote a book condemning the Russian invasion.1.2×032412026
92Oct 22, '22Russia is retreating from Kherson. Reports say that poorly trained, newly mobilized troops remain on the Dnipro’s east bank, and that Russia is likely to blow up the Khakovka dam t1.2×03341338
93Feb 8, '18According to @Navalny's new investigative report, an escort girl may be the latest #RussiaGate link 💄1.1×03221210
94Sep 14, '21Folks, it’s Yuri Norstein’s 80th birthday tomorrow. Best known for his shorts films “Hedgehog in the Fog” and “Tale of Tales,” Norstein is widely considered to be one of the greate1.0×03507225
95Aug 15, '22The Russian military is moving its command centers east of the Dnipro River and out of Kherson. According to Ukrainian officials, Russia's military leaders want to ensure they're n1.0×0302905
96Sep 11, '22Sources close to the Kremlin told Meduza that the Russian authorities have indefinitely postponed plans to hold sham referendums on annexing Ukrainian territories, and that there's1.0×02988910
97Feb 6, '18Alexey @Navalny is calling for a nationwide “demonstration against idiocy,” after a man in Arkhangelsk was convicted of promoting Nazi symbols because he shared this USSR victory p1.0×0325870
98Apr 29, '2059 years ago today, while stationed in Antarctica, Dr. Leonid Rogozov diagnosed himself w abdominal pain that quickly developed into appendicitis. 2 days later, with no other medic1.0×0355597
99Nov 11, '22Alexey Navalny's team and four other investigative journalism projects have launched a new mobile app for publishing their reports. According to its developers, the app, which is c0.9×02898312
100Mar 17, '21Ten of Alexey @Navalny’s closest allies have been under house arrest since late January.0.9×0395352

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