What’s behind the ruble’s steady depreciation, and is the Kremlin ...
Oct 19, 2024 · On October 18, Russia’s Central Bank set the official exchange rate at 97.1 rubles to the U.S. dollar. Back in early August, the rate was just above 86 rubles, but it soon started climbing — and it hasn’t stopped since. Meduza explores what’s driving the ruble’s decline, how soon the rate might surpass 100 rubles per dollar, and whether the Russian government has the means (or the ...
As Telegram, WhatsApp, and numerous other web services go …
Aug 21, 2024 · Internet users in Russia reported outages affecting a wide range of online services on Wednesday, including Telegram, WhatsApp, and Skype. About an hour after the issues began, Russia’s federal censorship agency blamed the disruption on a massive DDoS attack, but digital rights activists said it bears all the hallmarks of an attempted block by the authorities.
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Open-source data shows Russia’s equipment losses in Ukraine
Nov 5, 2024 · Amid an intensified offensive in Ukraine, Russia’s military is facing unprecedented equipment losses, according to data from the open-source research project Oryx, analyzed by Agentstvo.October saw the highest monthly losses of Russian armored vehicles, aircraft, helicopters, and other military assets since October 2022, …
120,000 dead and counting A new estimate from Meduza and …
Jul 5, 2024 · In the latest update to their list of confirmed Russian military deaths, Mediazona and BBC News Russian reported that at least 56,585 Russian soldiers have died fighting in Ukraine as of June 21. However, this list only includes soldiers whose deaths could be individually corroborated through open sources such as obituaries. In a previous investigation, Meduza and Mediazona used inheritance ...
Russia launches counterattack in Kursk region, reportedly
Oct 11, 2024 · Russia launched a large-scale offensive in the Kursk region on Thursday, breaking through Ukrainian defenses, according to both Ukrainian and Russian sources. The Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reports that Ukrainian forces may have lost up to 14.7 square miles of territory in just one day and warns of a potential encirclement of Ukrainian troops in certain areas.
Ukraine holds its ground in Russia’s Kursk region as defense
Sep 9, 2024 · Key updates as of September 7, 2024. The Russian army is continuing to build on its recent gains near Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Despite the city’s logistical importance to Ukrainian forces, the Russian command has yet to launch a direct assault, opting instead to redirect its main forces southward.
Russian and Ukrainian forces have begun the battle for Kurakhove …
Oct 31, 2024 · Russia Kursk region . Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers were encircled in the Kursk region. He was likely referring to a group of several hundred Ukrainian troops who retreated from the village of Olgovka, east of Korenevo, and took cover in the Olgovskaya Grove — a large forest southeast of Olgovka, along the Korenevo-Sudzha road.
Why is Trump’s pick for national intelligence director ... - Meduza
Nov 14, 2024 · U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he’s chosen Tulsi Gabbard, a former U.S. Representative from Hawaii, as his nominee for the country’s next director of national intelligence. Gabbard, who’s been an outspoken critic of U.S. military support for Ukraine for years, would be the first Hindu and the first person of color to serve in the role if confirmed by Congress.
The Kremlin’s campaign to make education more ‘patriotic
Oct 10, 2024 · The Russian authorities’ drive to revamp the country’s education system into a more explicitly patriotic endeavor has found a new frontier: the English language. Four schools in the Tver region are set to begin using new English textbooks whose content is designed to promote Russia’s “traditional spiritual and moral values.” While the initiative is …