Category: 1. Russia

Since US President Donald Trump took office this year, one theme has come up time and again: his rule is a threat to the US-led international order.

As the US political scientist John Mearsheimer famously argued, the liberal international…

While Pride Month is being celebrated around the world, LGBTQ+ people in Russia can’t safely meet, let alone live openly. The Russian government’s crackdown on queer people has been escalating for years. Even so, those inside the country are…

Meduza’s “No” art exhibition, which opened in Berlin on April 26, is drawing to a close this weekend. Over the past two and a half months, more than 400 people took part in our curatorial tours and we received 2,000 handwritten notes from…

One of the largest coal mines in Siberia’s Kemerovo region has suspended operations amid severe financial distress, leaving hundreds of workers without pay and highlighting growing instability in Russia’s coal heartland.

The…

Military personnel of the Russian Pacific Fleet carried out the defeat of a simulated enemy in the waters of the Sea of Japan. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

“Disparate forces of the Pacific…

Uncertain personal finances and the national economic climate are among Russians’ top reasons for delaying or forgoing having children, according to survey results obtained by the RBC news website. 

The survey, conducted by the CSP…

Ukraine may reach its combat capability limit in the next six months if it does not receive additional assistance.

This is reported by the Financial Times.

“Ukraine may reach the limit within six months if it does…

One of Russia’s leading mining companies has become the first coal producer to secure government aid amid a deepening crisis in the coal industry, its the company’s deputy director for finance told journalists Monday. 

Mechel has…

The US authorities, in the event of the introduction of new sanctions against Russia, will strike at themselves. This opinion was expressed by the Irish journalist Brian McDonald.

He noted on the social network X…

The Samara regional branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on charges of “rehabilitating Nazism” based on “information from social media.”

The agency said the case concerns a video showing teenagers in the…