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Former Kremlin deputy chief of staff reportedly wrote Putin letter condemning war in Ukraine before his resignation in September

Former Kremlin Deputy Chief of Staff Dmitry Kozak wrote a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin condemning Moscow’s war ...
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Putin’s new national policy strategy targets ‘foreign meddling’ and aims to have 95 percent of citizens share a ‘Russian civic identity’

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out Russia’s new “national policy strategy” through 2036.
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‘We will achieve this by military means.’ Putin calls Trump’s peace plan a ‘basis’ for future talks — and then demands Ukraine surrender territory.

The Trump administration has laid out a possible “basis” for a peace deal with Ukraine, but signing an agreement with the ...
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‘Run and hide all you want’: The online group harassing and threatening LGBTQ Russians in the E.U.

In 2025, the Telegram channels of multiple Russian LGBTQ+ organizations came under coordinated cyberattacks. Tens ...
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Russia just declared the late Alexey Navalny’s nonprofit a ‘terrorist organization.’ This was their response.

On Thursday, Russia’s Supreme Court declared the global branch of the (FBK) a “terrorist organization,” banning the ...
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‘Georgians will not accept autocracy’: Former defense minister and diplomat Vasil Sikharulidze reflects on Georgia’s year-long political crisis

Protesters in Georgia have been taking to the streets for 364 straight days. On October 26, thousands joined ...
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Putin says U.S. delegation coming to Moscow next week to discuss peace plan

A U.S. delegation will go to Moscow next week to discuss President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan for Russia and Ukraine, ...
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What do the Witkoff–Ushakov and Ushakov–Dmitriev transcripts reveal about U.S.–Russian negotiations? Who leaked them — and why?

On 5, Bloomberg published an explosive report containing transcripts of two phone calls: one between top Kremlin advisers ...
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Leaked calls between Steve Witkoff and Putin’s advisers raise new questions about Trump’s ‘peace plan.’ Here’s how the world is reacting.

On 5, Bloomberg published transcripts of two phone calls involving Yuri Ushakov, a top aide to the Russian president — one ...
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New investigation reveals the Russian Red Cross is expanding operations in occupied Ukraine as its international funding grows

In 2024, Meduza published a joint investigation as part of the Kremlin Leaks project that revealed the activities of the ...
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Why hasn’t the biggest corruption scandal of Zelensky’s presidency forced him into political or diplomatic concessions?

Earlier this month, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) uncovered an embezzlement scheme at Energoatom, the ...
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Russian neurotechnology company says it can steer pigeon flocks with implanted brain chips

The Russian neurotechnology company Neiry claims to have begun field testing a flock of pigeons with chips implanted in their brains, allowing researchers to steer the birds from the laboratory into ...