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The Moscow Times · Russia · 2026-09-19T12:23:00+00:00
Subtle acts of protest and organized voting strategies may offer only symbolic victories, but to those taking part, that is still worth the effort.
The Moscow Times · Russia · 2026-09-19T08:53:59+00:00
The measures target Russia's energy and defense industries, as well as its "shadow fleet" of tankers that evade existing sanctions.
Meduza English · Russia · 2026-09-18T22:33:39+00:00
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law a new sanctions law against Russia — the “sanctions from hell,” as the American press calls them — according to a statement on the White House website.
Meduza English · Russia · 2026-09-18T22:19:00+00:00
Russian forces struck a multistory apartment building in Sumy with guided aerial bombs, killing two people, Oleh Hryhorov, the head of the Sumy regional administration, said.
Meduza English · Russia · 2026-09-18T22:14:29+00:00
U.S. President Donald Trump said his son has repaid Umar Kremlev, head of the International Boxing Association, who covered part of the cost of Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding.
Meduza English · Russia · 2026-09-18T19:41:38+00:00
Yulia Kuznetsova, a State Duma candidate from the Greens party who disappeared a day earlier after a meeting with voters, has posted a video.
Meduza English · Russia · 2026-09-18T19:35:45+00:00
Moscow’s online voting system checks whether a voter is using a VPN, according to programmer Pyotr Zhizhin, who analyzed and documented in detail the scheme used to falsify electronic voting in the 2021 State Duma elections.
Meduza English · Russia · 2026-09-18T19:20:56+00:00
The British pop group Pet Shop Boys has released a new song, “A Top Secret Washing Machine,” on its YouTube channel. The track was timed to coincide with Russia’s State Duma elections.
Meduza English · Russia · 2026-09-18T18:23:36+00:00
Saudi Arabia’s state oil company, Saudi Aramco, has told European customers that they will receive no oil in October under their long-term contracts because of an attack on a key pipeline running to the Red Sea, sources told Bloomberg.
Meduza English · Russia · 2026-09-18T18:10:03+00:00
Andriy Biletsky, commander of Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps, said this week that his units are successfully carrying out Operation “Vivaldi.” The first of its four phases, he said, is nearing completion: Russian units near the town of Lyman, which had been trying to push through to the Siverskyi Donets River opposite Sloviansk, have been driven back across the Chornyi Zherebets River, a tributary of the Siverskyi Donets. Judging by published footage, the situation for Russian forces has indeed deteriorated as a result of a Ukrainian offensive that has lasted several months. There is still no confirmation, however, that Ukrainian forces have pushed the Russians back across the Chornyi Zherebets.
Meduza English · Russia · 2026-09-18T17:52:42+00:00
French President Emmanuel Macron said he has ordered his government to draw up a plan to protect critical infrastructure — including defense industry sites — from drone attacks and cyberattacks as Russia’s hybrid threat grows.
Meduza English · Russia · 2026-09-18T17:02:10+00:00
Leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany party have begun preparing for talks on resuming Russian gas deliveries to Germany, Reuters reported, citing two sources.
Meduza English · Russia · 2026-09-18T16:50:31+00:00
Ireland and the European External Action Service have proposed keeping Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov on the sanctions list while unfreezing his assets and allowing him to enter the European Union, European diplomats told the Financial Times.
Meduza English · Russia · 2026-09-18T16:28:36+00:00
Actor Nikita Kukushkin, who condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and left the country, has recorded a video supporting the “Noon for a Peaceful Russia” campaign, which Ilya Yashin and several other Russian opposition figures in exile are promoting. They are urging Russians to turn out at polling stations at noon on September 20 — the third and main day of voting in the State Duma elections — as a legal way to register their opposition to the war.
Meduza English · Russia · 2026-09-18T16:10:39+00:00
Russia’s Justice Ministry has added film director Andrei Zvyagintsev to its register of “foreign agents.”
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