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Mediazona is on life support, and its editors are currently working without pay. It's one of the best Russian-language outlets out there. It started by focusing on police and prison in Russia, and has become probably the best Russian-language outlet in covering the war.

In March, Russia seized the smallest amount of Ukrainian territory it's taken in a month since June last year agents.media/v-marte-rossiy…

Western sanctions on Russia's shadow oil tanker fleet only really kicked into high gear recently, with the US (blue) and EU (red) sanctioning lots of ships in Jan. '25. These sanctions are highly effective at hurting Russia's war economy. Lots of scope for more. With Ben Harris

Estate agent Marina Orlova has recommended that Russian women find a soldier fighting in Ukraine to marry because when he dies they'll get a payout of 8 million roubles to spend on their own apartment

A Russian officer and NCO have been jailed for 20 and 18 years respectively for torturing and killing seven of their own men in occupied Ukraine zona.media/news/2025/04/0…

I tricked Russian State media into reporting nonsense about an aircraft carrier named HMS Prince Andrew with "go faster stripes and crayons", it's been a fantastic week.

Rubio just told reporters he met with Dmitriev in Washington as well. "None of it was threatening...It was more an explanation of "this is our timeline" and at some point it will be clear whether you want peace or you don't want peace. And that time is coming. It's pretty short."

Meanwhile in the Russian State Duma, a roundtable on counteracting the spread of Satanism is taking place Chair of the Duma’s defence committee Andrei Kartapolov was in attendance as they began the session by reciting a prayer

Trump full-on accusing Zelensky of starting the war that Russia launched against Ukraine back in 2014, before Zelensky was even president, and escalated in 2022 with it unprovoked, full-blown invasion. Not a single criticism toward Putin, a day after the deadliest single attack

A Russian court has convicted hairdresser Anna Alexandrova of spreading “false information” about the Russian army & sentenced her to 5 yrs 2 months in prison. We featured her case (along with others) last year in this report about denunciations in Russia.

Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district has become the first Russian region to start reducing the bonus payments offered to new soldiers Instead of the previous sum of 3.1m roubles (around $38,000), they'll now offer 1.9m roubles (~$23,000) moscowtimes.ru/2025/04/15/per…

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service now openly suggests that Moscow and Washington are allied in a struggle against Europe, portraying Europe as a fascist regime. Moscow made the same accusation against Ukraine before launching its genocidal war against the Ukrainian people.

It turns out that Russian state TV anchor Yekaterina Andreyeva, one of the country’s most recognisable propagandists, has a passport from NATO country Montenegro (and also Honduras)

Rubio: 'We're not going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end. So we need to determine very quickly now, and I'm talking about a matter of days...If it is, we're in. If it's not, then we have other priorities to focus on as well."' kyivindependent.com/us-ready-to-ab…

Acting governor of Russia’s Kursk Region Alexander Khinshtein invited a priest to sprinkle his office with holy water after his predecessor Alexei Smirnov was arrested on charges of embezzling funds meant for building defensive fortifications on the border with Ukraine

As expected, Russian Z-bloggers and war correspondents have already started flooding the Russian info space with accusations against Ukraine, claiming Kyiv has already started violating Putin’s so-called Easter “truce.”

Together with several Guardian colleagues, as part of a large journalistic consortium, we investigated the torture and death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna in Russian captivity. theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

JD Vance: "there's a very big gulf between what the Russians want and what the Ukrainians want" It should have not taken 100 days to arrive at this