“The only free protest today is suicide”. Artist Andrey Akuzin, arrested in the Russian Far East for comment, ends his life in pre‑trial detention
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14 April 2026, 21:25
Hockey penalty. Russian news agency fined for “LGBT propaganda” over “Heated Rivalry” review
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14 April 2026, 16:20
Russian losses in the war with Ukraine. Mediazona count, updated
208,755 deaths confirmed by April 10
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10 April 2026, 10:00
Novaya Gazeta raided in Moscow. Investigative journalist Oleg Roldugin detained and taken for questioning
The raid lasted 13 hours, concluding after midnight Moscow time
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9 April 2026, 21:05
“Those who left the country during a period of turbulence”. How a business daily coaches returning Russians in self‑censorship and rehearsed loyalty Mr Nobody and the Russian army. Behind the Oscar‑winning documentary, Mediazona found the real soldiers, killed in action and still alive Ukrainian POW fined for “discrediting” the Russian army in prison. He is serving an 18‑year sentence in Siberia Memory replacement. Moscow’s Gulag History Museum to be replaced by an exhibition on the “genocide of the Soviet people”