Category: 1. Russia

Russia is turning one of its last major spaces for confronting Soviet-era repression into a showcase for state-sanctioned patriotism. The Gulag History Museum in Moscow — long a rare institutional refuge for the memory of Stalin’s…

Jeffrey Epstein’s interest in Vladimir Putin is well documented in the files released by the U.S. Justice Department in late January. Now, Meduza has uncovered another curious connection between the convicted sex offender and the Russian…

On October 18, 2022, roughly eight months after Russia’s launched its all-out war on Ukraine, a high-ranking Russian officer texted several messages to his wife, and several acquaintances, back home in Russia.

The officer, then-Colonel Roman…

On February 13, Russia’s Justice Ministry removed Andrey Pavlov, the founder of the shoe retailer Zenden, from its register of “foreign agents.” He’d been added to the list in the summer of 2024 — despite praising Vladimir Putin,…

Thailand has started acting as a transit hub for Chinese drones deliveries to Russia in circumvention of Western sanctions, Bloomberg reported Thursday. 

Russia imported $125 million worth of drones from Thailand in the first 11…