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Mediazona

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Mediazona

@mediazona_en

Independent news about Russia. Investigative reporting, trial live-blogging, digital censorship coverage (now censored in Russia). Russian account: @mediazzzona

Joined June 2022

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Mar 31, 2025
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. Mediazona is struggling. We’ve tracked 100K Russian casualties in Ukraine. Covered political prisoners repression. We survived Putin’s censors. Our reporters risk prison. Our editors will now work without pay. We need your help: en.zona.media/article/2025/0…
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Dec 5, 2022
Today, Putin signed the notorious law that practically deprives the Russian queer community of the right to exist openly. The new ban equates homosexuality with pedophilia and introduces enormous fines for distributing any kind of queer content
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Feb 27, 2024
70-year-old Oleg Orlov, Soviet era dissident, co-chair of Memorial, hostage negotiator, and one of the most prominent human right defenders in Russia, is being taken from court, which sentenced him to 2.5 years in prison for "discrediting" the Russian army. Video: Mediazona
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Apr 2, 2025
Russia and Belarus are the only former Soviet states not included in Donald Trump’s sweeping new “reciprocal tariffs”. Ukraine faces a 10% tariff, the EU 20%, and China 34%
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Apr 2, 2025
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Oct 2, 2022
A Russian draft, senseless and merciless. One recruit describes sheer dysfunction at his base: boots covered with moss and AKs from the 80s; a recruit without a driver’s license is now an IFV driver; trained snipers are now rocket launcher operators
“Total clusterfuck.” Old guns, boots covered with moss, zero training: one Russian recruit’s story...
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Mediazona
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Mar 7, 2024
“Lies, lies, and nothing but lies. It will collapse and fall apart. Putin’s state is unviable” Benedict Cumberbatch reads Alexei Navalny’s letter
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Feb 16, 2024
EU Ambassador to Russia Roland Galharague laid flowers at the Solovetsky Stone, a monument in Moscow to the victims of political repression, in memory of Alexei Navalny Photo: @novayagazeta_en
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Nov 30, 2023
Today, Russia's Supreme Court designated the “international LGBT movement” as an “extremist organisation,” following a motion filed by the Ministry of Justice. It took judge Oleg Nefedov 4 hours to make the decision
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Feb 18, 2024
Three days after the announcement of Alexei Navalny’s death in the Arctic prison, his family still can’t claim or even see his body. We discovered live cam footage of a midnight convoy possibly transporting Navalny’s body over the ice river crossing en.zona.media/article/2024/0…
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Feb 24, 2024
72-year-old artist and activist Elena Osipova was detained in Saint Petersburg in a park where she came to commemorate Alexei Navalny. She drew a painting with the words "Alexei Navalny. Stop Putin's operations" Photo: Bumaga
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Feb 13, 2024
For the first time in history, the head of another state—Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas was placed on the Russian wanted list. This is just one of Mediazona's many findings in the comlete wanted database: en.zona.media/article/2024/0…
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Mar 2, 2024
After yesterday’s funeral, people kept coming to the cemetery all day today, to pay their respects to Alexei Navalny Video: Mediazona
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Mar 2, 2024
Political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is serving a 25-year sentence for treason and spreading “fakes” about the Russian army, sent flowers to the grave of Alexei Navalny. Photo: Mediazona
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Jul 13, 2022
Today Moscow politician Ilya Yashin was sent to jail for two months pending investigation of spreading “fake information” about the murders in Bucha. He faces up to 10 years in prison. The court hearing was held behind closed doors, no journalists were allowed inside