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One strike takes out more Russian officers than ever during the entire war. Mediazona reveals 20 KIA officers in the August 26 attack on Donetsk

Mediazona has identified 20 officers who were killed following a massive missile strike on Donetsk on August 26, 2026.
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Performative mail. Russia requests the extradition of current and former ICC judges sentenced in absentia over the Putin warrant

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has sent requests to the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, and to several other ...
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“We’ll send you to your cozy Gulag”. Russian asylum seekers join hunger strike in Georgia ICE facility describing neglect and threats in long detention

Russian asylum seekers, some held without charge for more than two years, are among dozens of detainees on hunger strike at a ...
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From American detention to Russian prison. After asylum rejection, Leonid Melekhin received a 6‑year sentence in Russia for hanging a Putin mannequin

Photo of Melekhin crossing the U.S. border posted by “Bobr. There and Back Again (An Immigration Diary)”, a Telegram channel A military court in Yekaterinburg has sentenced Leonid Melekhin, an ...
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“Hollywood or nightmare”. How a Ukrainian refugee accidentally learned of her estranged father’s treason arrest in Russia while scrolling Instagram

In August, Mediazona broke the story of Oleg Varyukhin, the man charged with treason in Russia for paying mandatory taxes as a small business owner in Ukraine. Now, his estranged ...
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A rare retreat. Russian investigators suddenly drop “fake news about the army” criminal case against children’s hospice founder Lida Moniava

Russian authorities have dropped the criminal case alleging the spread of “fake news about the army” against Lida Moniava, ...
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“They are waiting for me to die”. Crimean political prisoner Lenur Khalilov was released because of his cancer—and then returned to prison

Lenur Khalilov, the 58-year-old former head of the independent Muslim community “Alushta”—sentenced to 18 years in prison for ...
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From election monitoring to a prison hospital. Russian political scientist Alexander Kynev sustained two tibia fractures after arrest on drug charges

Moscow’s Perovsky District Court sent prominent Russian political scientist Alexander Kynev to pre-trial detention on large-scale drug charges following an arrest where he was ...
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15 years for a warrant. Moscow court sentences International Criminal Court leadership to prison in absentia for “illegal prosecution” of Vladimir Putin

International Criminal Court building in The Hague. Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons The Moscow City Court has announced the sentencing of eight judges and the prosecutor of the ...
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352,000 deaths in four years. Mediazona and Meduza’s new estimate of Russian losses in Ukraine

Our methodology draws on data from the Probate Registry—a publicly accessible Russian database of inheritance cases—and the recorded names count we maintain together with BBC News Russian and a team ...