Meet Alina, the 19-year-old daughter of a Russian mercenary whose fiancé is in exile for opposing the war Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / Scanpix / LETA Like many in Putin’s Russia, Alina thought of politics as “something distant and boring” for most of her life — until the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war caused a rift between Alina and her family, alienating her from her mother and grandmother.

Russian immigrants on why they’ve joined the mass protests against Georgia’s ‘foreign agents’ law Irakli Gedenidze / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Georgian lawmakers arrive at the country’s parliament building in Tbilisi amid widespread protests against the new “foreign agents” law. May 13, 2024. On Tuesday, Georgia’s parliament approved its controversial bill on “transparency of foreign influence” in its third and final reading, bringing it closer than ever to becoming law.

In Georgia, Russian emigrants also go to rallies against the adoption of the Law on Ino -Agents. They told Medusa why they do it Irakli Gedenidze / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Georgian deputies call on the territory of parliament in Tbilisi against the backdrop of protests against the new law on “foreign agents”.

Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images In March 2024, Victoria Nuland stepped down as State Department under-secretary for political affairs, ending her tenure as the third-highest-ranking U.S. diplomat. Early in her career, from 1991 to 1993, Nuland worked at the American embassy in Moscow and was responsible for relations with Boris Yeltsin's government.

We are trying to answer the main questions about the main rearrangement in the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Astakhov / satellite / Imago Images / Scanpix / Leta Andrey Belousov and Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov On the evening of May 12, Vladimir Putin resigned from the post of Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu. His place after a formal statement in the Federation Council will be occupied by Andrei Belousov, a former Deputy Prime Minister on Economic Affairs. Why exactly he?

We talked about this with Victoria Nuland Kevin Dietsch / Getty images In March 2024, Victoria Nuland left the post of Deputy Secretary of State of the United States. At the beginning of her career, from 1991 to 1993, Nuland worked at the American embassy in Moscow and was responsible for relations with the government of Boris Yeltsin.

Says Russian politics Eliot Boreinstein Michael Probst / AP / Scanpix / Leta Mural with portraits of Alexei Navalny and Nelson Mandela in Geneva, made on the eve of the meeting of Vladimir Putin and Joe Bayden. June 15, 2021 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela headed South Africa, having been released after 27 years of imprisonment. Alexei Navalny, who, during his life and after death, was repeatedly compared with the South African politician and human rights activist, this failed.

Interview with lawyer Zhanna Urazbakhova. She seeks punishment for Kuandyk Bishimbaev, a former Kazakhstani minister who killed his wife Ophelia Zhakayev for the "shore" lawyer Zhanna Urazbakhov In Kazakhstan, they are judged by former minister Kuandyk Bimimbaev, accused of killing his wife, Saltanat Nukenova. The public trial began at the end of March: according to the prosecution, he beat and strangled his wife for several hours in the VIP Kabinka of the BAU restaurant in Astana.

How a Russian inmate sued Moscow, told off Yevgeny Prigozhin, and popularized Meduza in his prison Alexander Paranuk In 2014, Yekaterinburg native Alexander Paranuk was arrested on what he says were fabricated drug charges. He spent most of the next decade in prison. But that didn’t stop him from becoming a writer, producing his own prison news program, getting into a verbal tussle with Yevgeny Prigozhin, and disseminating more than a few Meduza articles among his fellow inmates.

Meet: prisoner Alexander Paranuk. Thanks to him in one Russian colony, many began to read the texts of the "Medusa" Alexander Paranuk Yekaterinburger Alexander Paranuk hit the pre -trial detention center in 2014 - as he claims, on a fabricated accusation of drug distribution.

Ilya Bakharev thought joining the Russian army would be a ticket to exoneration. His unit mates tortured him to death. Svetlana Bulavina’s personal archive Like countless other Russian men, Ilya Bakharev thought joining the war against Ukraine was a path to redemption. Though he wasn’t recruited directly from prison, Ilya had a criminal record, and he spoke openly to his wife about his hope that going to war would keep their son from seeing him as just an ex-con.

Here is his story Personal archive Svetlana Bulavina This text contains a description of violence scenes. If this is unacceptable for you, please do not read it. Ilya Bakharev was sure: the first business trip to the front was unsuccessful for him. In April 2023, the 36-year-old Novosibirsk signed up in the Redut PMC and got to Bakhmut, who at that time was practically surrounded by Russian troops.

Political scientist Kirill Shamiev on what the Kremlin stands to gain by blaming Ukraine for the Moscow terrorist attack Maxim Shemetov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA On March 18, Russia’s Central Election Commission announced that incumbent Vladimir Putin had secured almost 90 percent of the vote in the country’s presidential elections.

Trying to deal with political scientist Kirill Shamiev Maxim Shemetov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta In mid -March, Vladimir Putin received record results in the elections: according to official figures, more than 87% of the vote with a reality of 77%. The Kremlin officials believe that with such support (even partially “painted”), Putin has a carte blanche on any, including the most unpopular decisions.

How many terrorists were there? The detainees really wanted to escape to Ukraine? And why did they give them so far? Sergey Vedyashkin / Moscow Agency employees of operational services near the Crocus City Hall building. March 22, 2024 On the evening of March 24, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested (so far for two months) of the four alleged executors of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.