Category: 1. Russia

The finance ministers of Germany and the Netherlands, Lars Klingbeil and Elko Heijnen, have spoken out against joint EU loans, Reuters writes.

“I am against joint loans. The Netherlands has never been involved in…

Sergey Karaganov is one of Russia’s most prominent political scientists and a founding member of the Valdai Discussion Club, which Vladimir Putin has attended regularly for more than two decades. In a recent report, subtitled “The…

Belarus has increased its spending on weaponry and military hardware sharply since 2022, budget numbers show. The increase coincides with Russia’s all-out war on Ukraine and has worried its immediate neighbors.

Government spending on…

US President Donald Trump handed the Kremlin a clear warning this week, announcing plans for weapons supplies to Kyiv via Europe and saying the United States will impose “very severe tariffs” on Russia if it doesn’t reach a deal on the war…

With some 97.4 million users, WhatsApp is Russia’s most popular messaging service. But according to Meduza’s sources, it will most likely be banned in the near future. This comes after Russian lawmaker Anton Gorelkin, the deputy head…

Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article takes stock of the recent developments on the battlefield based on open-source information. Meduza has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the very start,…

Imagine waking up to the news that a deadly new strain of flu has emerged in your city. Health officials are downplaying it, but social media is flooded with contradictory claims from “medical experts” debating its origin and severity….

EU officials have decided to cancel permission for the Czech Republic to import oil from Russia via the Druzhba pipeline.

‘The Council decided to cancel the import authorisation,’ the EU said in a related…

United States leader Donald Trump has asked Vladimir Zelenskyy to go on the offensive against Russia, The Washington Post reports, citing sources.

According to the Ukrainian official, during a phone conversation…

Russian prisons are increasingly restricting inmates’ access to foreign literature and books in foreign languages, the independent news outlet Mozhem Obyasnit reported Friday.

Inmates across Russia have reported bans on works by…