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Every day, we bring you the most important news and feature stories from hundreds of news sources in Russia and across the former Soviet Union. Our team includes some of Russia’s top professionals in news and reporting. We value our independence and strive to be a reliable, trusted outlet for objective, verified, and unbiased information about Russia and the former Soviet Union, as well as a source for sharp insights about one of the world’s most enigmatic regions.

In which Meydan TV journalist Orkhan Mammad explains how Azerbaijani propaganda has weaponized the ongoing diplomatic cr...
04/07/2025

In which Meydan TV journalist Orkhan Mammad explains how Azerbaijani propaganda has weaponized the ongoing diplomatic crisis with Russia.

Russia and Azerbaijan are embroiled in an ongoing diplomatic row. In late June, Russian authorities carried out mass arrests targeting members of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Yekaterinburg that left two people dead. Baku responded in an unexpectedly sharp manner, canceling most cultural events linked...

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office wants to outlaw the “international Satanism movement” as “extremist.” Meduza was...
04/07/2025

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office wants to outlaw the “international Satanism movement” as “extremist.” Meduza was unable to find any open-source evidence that such a group exists.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has filed legal proceedings seeking to outlaw the “international Satanism movement” as an extremist group, the state news agency TASS reported on Friday.

Why has Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan launched an unprecedented confrontation with the country’s clergy? And w...
04/07/2025

Why has Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan launched an unprecedented confrontation with the country’s clergy? And where could it lead? Caucasus expert Roman Chernikov explains.

On June 27, officers from Armenia’s National Security Service attempted to storm the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, a monastic complex near Yerevan that serves as the residence of Catholicos Karekin II, the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC). They were searching for Mikael Adjapakhyan, h...

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky spoke by phone on Friday.
04/07/2025

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky spoke by phone on Friday.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a phone call on Friday.

Chechnya’s longtime ruler, Ramzan Kadyrov, keeps floating the idea of stepping down, though it always ends the same way:...
04/07/2025

Chechnya’s longtime ruler, Ramzan Kadyrov, keeps floating the idea of stepping down, though it always ends the same way: he stays in power. Here’s why, amid growing rumors about his deteriorating health, he keeps bringing it up.

Each time Chechnya’s longtime ruler, Ramzan Kadyrov, disappears from the public eye, it fuels fresh speculation about whether he's still capable of leading the republic. A recent public call to “pray for Ramzan,” made by the region’s deputy information minister, was instantly interpreted as ...

Weaving together reporting, photography, and reflections on her own identity, multimedia journalist Natalia Jidovanu gra...
04/07/2025

Weaving together reporting, photography, and reflections on her own identity, multimedia journalist Natalia Jidovanu grapples with Moldova’s trajectory since independence. The Beet’s latest.

More than 20 years after moving abroad, multimedia journalist Natalia Jidovanu found herself grappling with Moldova’s struggles over national identity. The following personal essay, first published in The Beet, offers a first-person perspective on her home country’s trajectory since independence...

Andrey Badalov, the vice president of the Russian state-controlled oil pipeline monopoly Transneft, has reportedly died ...
04/07/2025

Andrey Badalov, the vice president of the Russian state-controlled oil pipeline monopoly Transneft, has reportedly died after falling from the window of his apartment in Moscow.

Andrey Badalov, the vice president of the Russian state-controlled oil pipeline monopoly Transneft, has died after falling from the window of his apartment in Moscow.

After yesterday’s phone call with Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump said he believes the Russian leader has no...
04/07/2025

After yesterday’s phone call with Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump said he believes the Russian leader has no intention of ending the war in Ukraine. “I’m very disappointed,” Trump told reporters.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin has no intention of ending the war in Ukraine, Reuters reported, citing Trump’s remarks.

The latest addition to Russia’s official list of “terrorists and extremists” was born in 2011.
04/07/2025

The latest addition to Russia’s official list of “terrorists and extremists” was born in 2011.

The Russian authorities have designated a 14-year-old boy from Orenburg as a terrorist, according to a Telegram channel that tracks updates to Russian financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring’s official list of “terrorists and extremists.”

Russian forces carried out a large-scale overnight attack on Ukraine, using 539 drones and 11 missiles, according to Ukr...
04/07/2025

Russian forces carried out a large-scale overnight attack on Ukraine, using 539 drones and 11 missiles, according to Ukraine’s Air Force Command. More than 20 people were injured in the Kyiv, including a 10-year-old girl.

Russian forces carried out a large-scale overnight attack on Ukraine, using 539 drones and 11 missiles, according to Ukraine’s Air Force Command. The military said 478 aerial targets were either successfully intercepted or “lost from radar tracking or suppressed by electronic warfare systems.”

Russia has become the first country in the world to formally recognize Afghanistan’s Taliban government since the group ...
04/07/2025

Russia has become the first country in the world to formally recognize Afghanistan’s Taliban government since the group seized power in 2021.

Russia has formally recognized Afghanistan’s Taliban government, Russia’s Foreign Ministry told TASS. According to the outlet, the Taliban flag has been raised over the Afghan embassy in Moscow — the first time it has flown there since the group seized power in 2021.

On Thursday, Moscow police arrested Azerbaijani organized crime figure Vagif Suleymanov. It is unclear whether Suleymano...
03/07/2025

On Thursday, Moscow police arrested Azerbaijani organized crime figure Vagif Suleymanov. It is unclear whether Suleymanov’s arrest is connected to recent police raids on other Azerbaijani nationals in Yekaterinburg.

On Thursday, Moscow police arrested Azerbaijani organized crime figure Vagif Suleymanov, also known as Vagif Bakinsky and the Diplomat, for violating Russian residency regulations. According to the newspaper Kommersant, Suleymanov is now being held at a temporary detention center for foreign citizen...

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