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11 авг. 2026 г.‘We’ve seen this somewhere in history before, haven’t we?’ Inside Russia’s plan to resettle 114,000 of its people in occupied Ukraine.
Yuri Kadobnov / AFP / Scanpix / LETARussian soldiers in downtown Melitopol. June 14, 2022. Over the next 20 years, Russian authorities plan to resettle nearly 114,000 Russians in the occupied Ukrainian territories. Despite the grim circumstances, some people really are moving there.
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11 авг. 2026 г.Swedish court frees Russian couple, rules citizenship and language alone aren’t grounds for detention
A Stockholm migration court released a married Russian couple from custody after they were detained while on vacation in Sweden, the human rights organization Kovcheg reported . The court found that the couple — identified only as Semyon and Tatyana — had not misled Swedish authorities about the purpose of their trip and that their detention violated Swedish law.
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11 авг. 2026 г.Russia is recruiting women out of prisons to serve as front-line medics. A new investigation documents rape by commanders and criminal cases against the women who report it.
Insider ZOV ‘You girls are a very powerful destabilizing factor’ In 2024, Russia’s Defense Ministry launched an experiment called “Choice,” according to a new investigation by the independent Russian news outlet Verstka. The military solicited volunteers at women’s penal colonies in several regions and assigned them to tactical medicine units to treat the wounded near the front.
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11 авг. 2026 г.Криштиану Роналду и Джорджина Родригес поженились
Португальский футболист Криштиану Роналду женился на испанской модели Джорджине Родригес. Об этом пара сообщила в инстаграме. Они опубликовали фото своих рук с кольцами. Пара в отношениях с 2016 года. За это время у них родились две дочери. О том, что свадьба пройдет после чемпионата мира по футболу, рассказывал сам футболист. Точную дату и место проведения церемонии он не называл. Таблоиды сообщили, что церемония состоится 8 августа в соборе в Фуншале на Мадейре.
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11 авг. 2026 г.Yabloko is off the ballot. Here’s how Russia’s exiled opposition, its political analysts, and its pro-war bloggers explain the decision.
On August 10, Russia’s Supreme Court removed Yabloko — the only party campaigning on an antiwar platform — from the upcoming State Duma election. The formal pretext was a lawsuit from the Rodina party, which accused Yabloko of a string of absurd copyright violations. Meduza collected reactions from across the political spectrum: Yabloko’s own leadership, exiled opposition figures who had urged voters to back the party, and pro-Kremlin bloggers.
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11 авг. 2026 г.Три ядерных реактора крупнейшей АЭС Франции остановили из-за медуз. Это происходит второй год подряд
Три из шести ядерных реакторов крупнейшей французской АЭС Гравлин остановили из-за скопления медуз в системах охлаждения, сообщает Reuters со ссылкой на заявление оператора станции EDF. Три энергоблока остановили, поскольку фильтрующие барабаны насосных станций засорились из-за медуз. Они попали в оборудование вместе с водой из Северного моря, которую используют для охлаждения станции. Мощность еще одного реактора снизили до 50% в качестве профилактической меры.
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11 авг. 2026 г.How does the man behind Russia’s most soothing cartoon dog end up with an 18+ horror hit? Leonid Shmelkov’s ‘Restlessness’ strands two travelers in a roadside hotel they can’t escape.
Pro:vzglyad Nepokoy (“Restlessness”), a feature-length art-house animation for adults, is now playing in Russian theaters. That in itself is news: 18+ animation is a real rarity not only in Russia but worldwide. Nepokoy has already become a phenomenon: it’s the highest-grossing Russian animated film for adults, the living legend Yuri Norstein has praised it, and its heroine has been turned into a Dymkovo toy , a traditional Russian painted-clay folk figurine.
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11 авг. 2026 г.Hundreds of teenagers waited hours outside Russia’s Supreme Court to witness the only antiwar party lose its place on the ballot. Then a police officer raised a megaphone to talk about draft offices.
Igor Ivanko / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Yabloko supporters with a Russian flag outside the Supreme Court building. August 10, 2026 All day on August 10, Russia’s Supreme Court heard a lawsuit seeking to revoke the Yabloko (“Apple”) party’s registration for the State Duma elections. Hundreds of people stood outside the courthouse on Povarskaya Street the entire time, supporters of the only antiwar party that could theoretically participate in the vote.
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11 авг. 2026 г.Задержанных в Швеции россиян освободили из-под ареста. Суд решил, что их незаконно задержали
Миграционный суд Стокгольма освободил семейную пару россиян, ранее задержанных во время отпуска в Швеции, из-под стражи, сообщает правозащитная организация «Ковчег». Суд решил, что россияне Семен и Татьяна ( их фамилия не называется — прим. «Медузы» ) не вводили власти Швеции в заблуждение о цели своего визита, а их задержание не соответствует законам страны.
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11 авг. 2026 г.Sergey Nedovodin, St. Petersburg radio founder, dies at 61 after being beaten outside his Moscow home
Sergey Nedovodin, a founder and former executive director of the radio station Ekho Peterburga, has died at 61, the station’s Telegram channel reported . Nedovodin had been in intensive care and unconscious since late June, the news outlet Rotonda said . He was hospitalized after being beaten in the Moscow region, where he had recently moved.
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11 авг. 2026 г.The son of ‘Orthodox oligarch’ Igor Altushkin (who funds Russian churches and a battalion in Ukraine) crashed the family Lamborghini into a house in Yekaterinburg, injuring a combat veteran
A purple Lamborghini crashed into a house at 1 Otradnaya Street in Yekaterinburg on the evening of August 11, according to news outlet E1.ru and the Telegram channel “Baza,” which has ties to Russia’s security services. Paramedics and police arrived at the scene. Footage shows the sports car striking several scooters, though it’s unclear whether anyone was riding them at the time of the crash.
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11 авг. 2026 г.Russia’s Central Bank approves Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT for exchange trading — with limits for retail investors
Russia’s Central Bank has added Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether (USDT) to its list of cryptocurrencies approved for trading on exchanges, the regulator said in a statement. Nonqualified investors will have access only to the most liquid cryptocurrencies, with an annual cap of 300,000 rubles’ worth of those assets per intermediary — a broker, a crypto exchanger, or an asset manager. Qualified investors, by contrast, will be able to buy any cryptocurrency traded on the exchanges without restriction.
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11 авг. 2026 г.Putin’s motorcade stopped in Novosibirsk for a ‘spontaneous’ crowd of children. They had been waiting more than two hours — by a gas station with no gas.
Putin stopped his motorcade during a visit to Novosibirsk and got out to greet a crowd of local residents who had been waiting for him along the road. Eyewitness video shows the motorcade halted near an empty gas station where the price board had been switched off. Pavel Zarubin, a propagandist for the Russian state broadcaster VGTRK, published a video of the encounter. The footage shows people, mostly children, surrounding Putin after his motorcade stopped.
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11 авг. 2026 г.В Екатеринбурге Lamborghini врезалась в дом. По данным СМИ, за рулем был сын «православного олигарха» Алтушкина, а в аварии пострадал участник войны
В Екатеринбурге фиолетовая Lamborghini вечером 11 августа врезалась в дом на улице Отрадной, 1, сообщили E1.ru и близкий к силовикам телеграм-канал «База» . На место аварии приехали врачи и полицейские. На кадрах видно, что спорткар сбил несколько самокатов. Ехал ли на них кто-то в момент аварии, неизвестно. По данным СМИ, Lamborghini принадлежит уральскому бизнесмену, владельцу «Русской медной компании» Игорю Алтушкину, а за рулем машины в момент ДТП находился его сын Давид.
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11 авг. 2026 г.Moscow’s Gulag museum won a Council of Europe prize for its honesty about Soviet terror. The state has now replaced it with a museum about the genocide of the Soviet people by the Nazis.
Vasily Maximov / AFP / Scanpix / LETAAn exhibit dedicated to Joseph Stalin’s funeral at the Museum of the History of the Gulag. Moscow, October 30, 2015 In late 2024, Moscow’s Museum of the History of the Gulag was temporarily closed over “violations of fire safety requirements.” Even then, it was clear that this state institution had little chance of a future in a Russia at war. Still, the museum kept operating behind closed doors.