Your browser does not support the audio element. Politico’s Alex Ward on Biden’s Russia and Ukraine policy U.S. President Joe Biden took less than two minutes to bring up Russia in his 2024 State of the Union address. “If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you, he will not,” Biden said, prompting a standing ovation.

New Russian bill would allow criminal suspects, defendants, and convicts to sign army contracts to avoid prison time Stanislav Krasilnikov / Sputnik / imago images / Scanpix / LETA Servicemen from a unit based in Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan deployed in Ukraine’s Luhansk region. October 25, 2023. The Russian authorities have been using prisoners to beef up their military forces in Ukraine for well over a year and a half now.

What Russia teaches potential guardians about orphans forcibly taken from Ukraine Fedor Larin / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Ukrainian children from Donetsk and Luhansk in a dining hall in Rostov, Russia. February 19, 2022.

20 years ago, St. Petersburg neo -Nazis killed the eight -year -old Khurshed Sultonov Mikhail Razuvaev / Kommersant / Vida Press defendants in the case of the murder of Khurshed Sultonova in St. Petersburg In February, the SOVA research center, which since 2002 trains the activity of right -wing groups and crimes on the basis of hatred, presented two reports on how the situation with the right movements in Russia for 2023 changed.

Indian intelligence agencies have uncovered a “major human trafficking network” that lured young men to Russia where they were forced to fight in the war against Ukraine, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said. According to the press release, approximately 35 people became victims of this scheme. According to investigators, the attackers, acting as part of an organized group, found young people through social networks. They were offered highly paid jobs in the Russian Federation.

During a ski race in Sochi, athletes crashed into each other due to poor visibility. At least nine people were injured In Sochi, during the women's ten-kilometer ski race, which was held as part of the Winter Spartakiad of Students, a massive collapse occurred on one of the slopes, as a result of which at least nine athletes were injured. As noted by "Championship.com", the race took place in difficult weather conditions.

The authorities of Latvia, Canada, South Korea, Sweden, Germany and the Czech Republic joined the US Embassy in warning about the threat of terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation in the next two days. In particular, the Latvian Foreign Ministry, citing information from the US Embassy, ​​called on its citizens to be careful and avoid mass gatherings in Moscow for 48 hours.

Interview with Olga Mikhailova. She defended Navalny for 16 years in courts - and miraculously was able to avoid arrest (unlike other politicians) Evgeny Feldman Navalny and Mikhailov in the process in the case of Kirovles. Kirov, May 20, 2013 Lawyer Olga Mikhailova began working with Alexei Navalny back in the 2000s. She defended him in the processes of Kirovles and Yves Rocher, in the case of the creation of an “extremist organization” (referring to the structures of Navalny) and others.

In St. Petersburg, law enforcement officers detained Lena Patyaeva, who went out on a solo picket. She demanded information about the whereabouts of her friend Seda Suleymanova, who was forcibly returned to Chechnya after escaping, Sota and RusNews reported .

Russia’s war against Ukraine fuels tensions in Moldova’s main Orthodox Church Story by Paula Erizanu for The Beet . Edited by Eilish Hart . This story first appeared in The Beet , a weekly email dispatch from Meduza covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Sign up here to get the next issue delivered directly to your inbox.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who will turn 93 on March 11, intends to marry 67-year-old Elena Zhukova, The New York Times reports, citing Murdoch's office. Zhukova is a retired molecular biologist. According to the Daily Mail, she has been in a relationship with Murdoch since the summer of 2023. They met through the tycoon's third wife, entrepreneur Wendy Dang. The couple is now engaged and their wedding is planned for June.

"Medusa" publishes a list of women-prolonged-and several ways to make their life a little better Anatoly Maltsev / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Artist Sasha Skochilenko, accused of spreading "fakes" about the army of the Russian Federation, in the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg, November 13, 2023 According to the OVD-Info, since 2012, more than three thousand people have undergone politically motivated criminal prosecution by the Russian authorities. More than 500 of them are women.

The French Ministry of Defense plans to oblige some defense companies to establish production directly in Ukraine, Reuters reports with reference to the statement of the Minister of Defense Sebastien Lexorny According to him, we are talking about three French companies that conclude partnerships with Ukrainian enterprises in the production of drones and ground equipment. Initially, enterprises will produce components for military equipment, and in the future - ammunition.

Yes, she finally appeared in the Medusa application. Whole and completely free All the books that are published in the Medusa publishing house necessarily appear in our application. This is an important part of our publishing project: we are doing everything so that people in Russia can read texts that cannot be published and sold there due to state censorship. We inform with great joy: it was the turn of the book “ Take my Woe ” by journalist Katerina Gordeeva.

Vladimir Putin reportedly discussed Navalny’s exchange just hours before his death Antonina Favorskaya / AP / Scanpix / LETA Alexey Navalny joining a court session from prisone by video link. January 10, 2024. On February 26, Alexey Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, said that Vladimir Putin had killed the opposition leader because negotiations for his release in a prisoner swap were nearing completion.