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3 weeks ago | 
meduza.io | Sam Breazeale
The Baltic Sea handles around 15 percent of global shipping traffic — approximately 2,500 vessels daily, according to researcher Julian Pawlak. A rising number of these ships belong to Russia’s “shadow fleet,” a group of hundreds of aging, poorly regulated oil tankers that Moscow uses to bypass Western sanctions.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
meduza.io | Sam Breazeale
As Donald Trump takes the oath of office for the second time, the world is waiting to see how he’ll seek to end Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine — something he’s previously said he would do within 24 hours (and, later, before his inauguration). But the nearly three-year-old conflict is just one of numerous interlaced geopolitical challenges involving an increasingly bold Russia that will affect the United States. Meduza explores three other critical issues Trump will have to navigate.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
meduza.io | Sam Breazeale
On February 15, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed into law a bill legalizing the use of cannabis for medical purposes. The new law is set to take effect in August 2024. But not everyone is happy: a large contingent of politicians and activists insist the legislation will be useless for Ukrainian patients without some serious fine tuning. Meduza explains how the initiative made it through parliament and what problems it aims to solve.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
meduza.io | Sam Breazeale
Like countless other Russian men, Ilya Bakharev thought joining the war against Ukraine was a path to redemption. Though he wasn’t recruited directly from prison, Ilya had a criminal record, and he spoke openly to his wife about his hope that going to war would keep their son from seeing him as just an ex-con.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
meduza.io | Sam Breazeale
Multiple methods of statistical analysis have confirmed: Russia’s most recent presidential election was the most fabricated in the country’s modern history. The Russian authorities claim that Vladimir Putin received an eye-popping 87.3 percent of the vote, with more than 90 percent of voters “supporting” him in most of Ukraine’s occupied territories.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
meduza.io | Sam Breazeale
The Russian authorities have a dilemma, according to Meduza’s sources: with less suspense than ever about who will win the country’s presidential election later this month, voter interest is historically low. And because Russia is currently facing a labor shortage, “corporate mobilization” strategies (in which government-dependent employees are pressured into enlisting their friends and relatives to go to the polls) are set to be less effective than usual this year.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
meduza.io | Sam Breazeale
Two weeks ago, Anna Asti seemed poised to finish 2023 on a high note. The Ukrainian-born singer had drawn huge crowds during her latest tour of Russia, her new album had dominated the Russian charts for months, and her childhood pop idol, Philipp Kirkorov had dubbed her the country’s “number one” singer. Then she made the mistake of attending blogger and TV presenter Nastya Ivleeva’s “almost naked” party in Moscow.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
meduza.io | Sam Breazeale
Story by Sam Breazeale 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. In 2018, Lena Wolf was invited to a friend’s wedding in St. Petersburg. As a German citizen living in the U.K., Lena had to apply for a visa for what would be her first-ever trip to Russia.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
meduza.io | Sam Breazeale |Katya Balaban
Story by Katya Balaban for The Beet. Translation by Sam Breazeale. In the aftermath of World War II, Moscow set out to build a cascade of hydroelectric power stations in Soviet-occupied Latvia. But popular opposition to the looming loss of natural monuments along the Daugava River proved to be a stumbling block — one that grew increasingly insurmountable as the decades-long project marched on.
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Feb 9, 2023 | 
techrights.org | Sam Breazeale |Roy Schestowitz
Gemini version available ♊︎ Links 09/02/2023: Sailfish OS 4.5, LibreSSL 3.5.4/3.6.2, and Ruby 3.2.1 Posted in News Roundup at 9:14 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz GNU/Linux Fiction Talk ☛ Making the Switch: Exploring the Pros and Cons of Migrating from Windows to a Linux-Based OS Audiocasts/Shows Linux in the Ham Shack ☛ LHS Episode #495: Liar, Liar Kernel Space Neowin ☛ Linux AMD Ryzen users can rejoice as testing shows massive performance gains over the years Applications Ubuntu Handbook ☛...
