A friend of Seda Suleymanova, who disappeared a year and a half ago, was detained in Grozny. She went on a picket asking "Where is Seda?" https://meduza.io/news/2025/03/20/v-groznom-zaderzhali-podrugu-sedy-suleymanovoy-propavshey-poltora-goda-nazad-ona-vyshla-na-piket-s-voprosom-gde-seda
US court orders Greenpeace to pay $660m to Texas company over pipeline protests https://theins.ru/news/279806
The AFU is trying to push back Russian forces from Pokrovsk. Wounded Ukrainian military are rescued at the stabilization point. Photos https://meduza.io/feature/2025/03/20/vsu-pytayutsya-otbrosit-rossiyskie-sily-ot-pokrovska-ranenyh-ukrainskih-voennyh-spasayut-v-punkte-stabilizatsii
Russia attacks Ukraine with nearly 200 drones in large-scale overnight attack https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/20/russia-attacks-ukraine-with-nearly-200-drones-in-large-scale-overnight-assault
A year ago, Russian troops captured Avdiivka, one of the key points of the AFU's defense in Donbas. The city has been completely destroyed. The history of the assault - in photos https://meduza.io/feature/2025/02/17/god-nazad-rossiyskie-voyska-zahvatili-avdeevku-odin-iz-klyuchevyh-punktov-oborony-vsu-v-donbasse-gorod-polnostyu-razrushen
The Triumph of Her Will. A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl proves: Hitler's favorite director not only falsified her biography, but also probably remained loyal to the ideas of Nazism https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/02/15/triumf-ee-voli
Kremlin media fake: Macron defiantly refused to shake Modi's hand at Paris summit https://theins.ru/antifake/278755
Court overturns sentence of former director of special school in Yekaterinburg, where older students raped other students https://meduza.io/news/2025/02/12/sud-otmenil-prigovor-byvshemu-direktoru-spetsshkoly-v-ekaterinburge-gde-starshie-vospitanniki-nasilovali-drugih-uchenikov
Putin calls Syria's new president for the first time https://theins.ru/news/278756
Russia's military expenditures exceeded the total defense budget of EU countries and the UK https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/02/12/voennye-raskhody-rossii-prevysili-summarnyi-oboronnyi-biudzhet-stran-es-i-velikobritanii-news
Putin had his first conversation with Syrian Transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa https://meduza.io/news/2025/02/12/putin-provel-pervyy-razgovor-s-prezidentom-perehodnogo-perioda-sirii-ahmedom-al-sharaa
Putin holds phone call with Syrian Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/12/putin-holds-phone-call-with-syrian-interim-president-ahmed-al-sharaa
Russia has reached a deal with the Taliban to buy Coca-Cola and energy drinks https://theins.ru/news/278754
'This is impossible': Kremlin responds to Zelensky's proposal to exchange occupied territories https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/12/this-is-impossible-kremlin-responds-to-zelensky-s-proposal-to-exchange-occupied-territories
Russian IT firm iSpring has worked with IBM and the U.S. Department of Defense. Now its pro-war founder has been arrested - and Z-bloggers are rallying behind him. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/12/russian-it-firm-ispring-has-worked-with-ibm-and-the-u-s-department-of-defense-now-its-pro-war-founder-has-been-arrested-and-z-bloggers-are-rallying-behind-him
Investigative Committee initiated a case against Spanish journalist El Mundo, who made a report from Kursk region https://theins.ru/news/278752
The Washington Post: more than 100 civilians in Kursk region evacuated to Ukraine after strike on boarding school in Suja https://meduza.io/news/2025/02/12/the-washington-post-bolee-100-mirnyh-zhiteley-kurskoy-oblasti-evakuirovalis-v-ukrainu-posle-udara-po-internatu-v-sudzhe
Russia and the United States conduct the first stage of a new prisoner exchange. American teacher Mark Vogel has been released. The deal is being hailed as evidence that Moscow and Washington are ready to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine https://meduza.io/feature/2025/02/12/rossiya-i-ssha-proveli-pervyy-etap-novogo-obmena-zaklyuchennymi-osvobozhden-amerikanskiy-uchitel-mark-fogel
Crime and Lynching. Outsourced is a TV series about the death penalty in 1990s Russia. It seems to be one of the top domestic series of 2025 https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/02/12/prestuplenie-i-linchevanie
The head of the general contractor of the Defense Ministry's Military Construction Complex has been arrested in Moscow. The company is engaged in construction in Dagestan https://theins.ru/news/278751