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Russia’s media regulator is now allegedly DDoS‑attacking VPNs, not just blocking them

One of the largest VPN services, Amnezia VPN, has been nearly non-functional for several days following a large-scale DDoS attack on its infrastructure. According to the developers, the attack has made it impossible to switch between servers. This affected all Amnezia Free and Premium users. The developers believe Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal media regulator responsible for internet restrictions, is behind the attack. Here is what is known.

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Apple removes Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max from App Store

The Kremlin-backed Max messenger disappeared from the App Store on June 3. iPhone and iPad users lost the ability to download the app, and those who had already installed it stopped receiving notifications and updates. According to the head of Russia’s Digital Development Ministry, Maksut Shadayev, the restrictions affected more than 20 million Russians — at least a quarter of Max’s total user base. Apple has not commented on the reasons for the removal. Yulia Navalnaya had previously called on the American company to take this step. The removal also follows that of another messenger suspected of spying on users — Telega — which was pulled from the App Store not long ago.

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Bust of Soviet secret police founder Dzerzhinsky installed at children’s camp in Russia

A United Russia deputy on the Nizhny Tagil city council has unveiled a bust of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder and first head of the Cheka, at a settlement outside the city. Dmitry Kostennikov, who initiated the monument’s installation, announced the unveiling in a post on social media.

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Belarus searches homes of students at ‘extremist’-branded university, threatens reprisals if they refuse to drop out

Belarusian authorities have opened a criminal case over alleged cooperation with the European Humanities University (EHU), and have carried out searches and interrogations of suspected associates, the human rights group Viasna reported.

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Russian investigators say at least 30 forged works by Soviet dissident sculptor Ernst Neizvestny were sold to private collectors

According to a now redacted story, Channel One chief executive Konstantin Ernst is listed as a victim in the criminal case over the forgery of works by sculptor and graphic artist Ernst Neizvestny, two sources in the art market told the Russian business daily Kommersant. A source at the Tretyakov Gallery confirmed the report.

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Kremlin-funded propaganda film shows Ukrainian children ‘learning to love’ life in Russia

Russia has released a propaganda documentary titled “SVOi Deti” (“Our Special Military Operation Children”). It tells the story of Ukrainian children taken to Russian recreational camps as part of a youth program called “Poslezavtra” (The Day After Tomorrow) for what Moscow calls ”integration sessions.” Both were produced by Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, who faces an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for her role in the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children from occupied territories. Officials in Kyiv, independent researchers, and journalists believe that programs like “Poslezavtra” are designed to indoctrinate and re-educate Ukrainian children. The film premiered on May 26, 2026, at the Gorky Film Studio, according to a post on Lvova-Belova’s Telegram channel. Three days later, it was released on the Okko streaming platform. Here’s what we know about the movie and its creators.

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Russian soldier tied to multimillion‑ruble forgery scheme, Tretyakov Gallery searched

Russia’s Investigative Committee accused Russian serviceman Maxim Koshkarev of helping produce forged paintings and sculptures attributed to Ernst Neizvestny.

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Russian Federation Council Speaker calls for search engines to show family support centers before abortion clinics in results

Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko has called for changes to search engine algorithms so that abortion-related queries surface links to family support centers before anything else.

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Missile threat alert declared across Russia’s Ural Federal District for the first time

A missile threat alert was declared in the Tyumen region on the afternoon of May 29. Regional Governor Alexander Moor called it a “preventive measure.”

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Russia charges philosopher with stealing Aristotle translation funds in case colleagues say is politically motivated

A senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy has been charged with large-scale fraud in connection with the alleged theft of funds earmarked for a project to translate Aristotle’s works.

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Video appears to show rooftop air defenses being installed on Moscow business tower wedged between GRU base and residential buildings

An air-defense system has reportedly been installed atop Nordstar Tower, a 42-story building near the Begovaya metro station in Moscow.

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A new Meduza analysis finds Ukraine’s long-range strikes are reaching twice as deep but not surging in 2026. Russia’s refineries, meanwhile, keep bouncing back.

A series of large-scale strikes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) on Bryansk, Moscow, Perm, Tuapse, and many other targets deep inside Russia has left a clear impression: Kyiv’s long-range campaign is hitting harder than it used to. The images are certainly vivid: “oil rain” blanketing an entire city, a mass drone raid on Russia’s capital, and refineries under near constant attack. Despite all this activity, however, it’s hard to tell whether anything has changed in Ukraine’s strategy. Assessing the frequency and effectiveness of the strikes is challenging — both Moscow and Kyiv conceal their real losses and exaggerate the impact of their own strikes. The available sources that offer a reliable picture of the long-range war’s progress are few and far between. Meduza examines what we can confirm under these conditions.

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Putin’s motorcade in Astana included an armored vehicle with a roof mount for a machine gunner

The motorcade accompanying Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to Kazakhstan included an armored vehicle fitted with a roof mount for a machine gunner — though the machine gun itself was not installed, according to the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT).

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Arrests sweep Russian Muslim leaders in apparent federal push to force loyalty demonstrations to Kremlin

In May, reports emerged from multiple regions of Russia about the detention and arrest of muftis and other Muslim religious and civic figures. Some of them face terrorism charges — specifically, alleged cooperation with the Muslim Brotherhood. Political scientists specializing in Islam, independent journalists, and pro-Kremlin bloggers have described the wave of persecution as the security services’ campaign against the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (DUM) of Russia and its leader, Mufti Ravil Gainutdin, personally. Here’s what we know.

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PACE votes to keep Chechen public figure who called LGBTQ+ people ‘outcasts and perverts’ in Russian opposition platform

The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has voted to keep Chechen public figure Ruslan Kutayev in the Russian opposition platform at PACE, despite his history of calling LGBTQ+ people “outcasts and perverts” and describing “honor killings” in the Caucasus as a private family matter. The crisis group SK SOS drew attention to the decision.

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At Russia’s psychiatry congress, doctor proposes new ‘transgender spectrum disorder’ and accuses LGBT-friendly doctors of forming ‘fifth column’

Olga Bukhanovskaya, chief physician of the Phoenix rehabilitation and treatment research center, presented a paper at the 18th Congress of Psychiatrists of Russia on what she called “transgender spectrum disorder” — a category she said includes ”homosexualism.”

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Once considered a possible successor to Patriarch Kirill, Metropolitan Hilarion fell from grace amid sexual misconduct allegations. Now he’s embroiled in a drug scandal in the Czech Republic.

Metropolitan Hilarion, a Russian Orthodox Church priest based in the Czech Republic, spent two days in police custody. On May 24, his car was stopped on the basis of an anonymous tip and the trunk was searched. Officers found “four small containers with a white substance” that turned out to be an illicit drug. Hilarion insisted he had no idea how the substance ended up in his car. On May 26, he was released without charges. But the incident was unprecedented for the Russian Orthodox Church, whose representatives had never before been taken into custody in Europe on drug-related charges. Meduza explains who Hilarion is and what is known about his detention, which may be a transparent signal that the metropolitan is no longer welcome in the Czech Republic.

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Putin says six killed, nearly 40 wounded in strike on college in self-proclaimed ‘LNR,’ orders Russia’s Defense Ministry to prepare a response

Vladimir Putin called a strike on a college dormitory in Starobilsk, in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”), a terrorist attack and ordered Russia’s Defense Ministry to submit proposals for a response.

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Moscow State University opens AI school tied to Putin’s daughter, with links to China and FSB oversight

On April 21, Moscow State University (MSU) held a presentation for its new artificial intelligence (AI) school. The new program is part of an infrastructure that Russian state news agencies describe as the “unified AI ecosystem of MSU.” It also includes an AI research center at the university, a supercomputer called “MSU-270,” and the MSU Institute of Artificial Intelligence. That last organization is officially headed by Vladimir Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova, who sources familiar with the structure of MSU’s AI infrastructure also consider the curator of the entire “ecosystem,” according to the independent science-focused outlet T-invariant. Meduza summarizes T-invariant’s investigation.

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Russia’s media regulator is now allegedly DDoS‑attacking VPNs, not just blocking them

Apple removes Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max from App Store

Bust of Soviet secret police founder Dzerzhinsky installed at children’s camp in Russia

Belarus searches homes of students at ‘extremist’-branded university, threatens reprisals if they refuse to drop out

Russian investigators say at least 30 forged works by Soviet dissident sculptor Ernst Neizvestny were sold to private collectors

Kremlin-funded propaganda film shows Ukrainian children ‘learning to love’ life in Russia

Russian soldier tied to multimillion‑ruble forgery scheme, Tretyakov Gallery searched

Russian Federation Council Speaker calls for search engines to show family support centers before abortion clinics in results

Missile threat alert declared across Russia’s Ural Federal District for the first time

Russia charges philosopher with stealing Aristotle translation funds in case colleagues say is politically motivated

Video appears to show rooftop air defenses being installed on Moscow business tower wedged between GRU base and residential buildings

A new Meduza analysis finds Ukraine’s long-range strikes are reaching twice as deep but not surging in 2026. Russia’s refineries, meanwhile, keep bouncing back.

Putin’s motorcade in Astana included an armored vehicle with a roof mount for a machine gunner

Arrests sweep Russian Muslim leaders in apparent federal push to force loyalty demonstrations to Kremlin

PACE votes to keep Chechen public figure who called LGBTQ+ people ‘outcasts and perverts’ in Russian opposition platform

At Russia’s psychiatry congress, doctor proposes new ‘transgender spectrum disorder’ and accuses LGBT-friendly doctors of forming ‘fifth column’

Once considered a possible successor to Patriarch Kirill, Metropolitan Hilarion fell from grace amid sexual misconduct allegations. Now he’s embroiled in a drug scandal in the Czech Republic.

Putin says six killed, nearly 40 wounded in strike on college in self-proclaimed ‘LNR,’ orders Russia’s Defense Ministry to prepare a response

Moscow State University opens AI school tied to Putin’s daughter, with links to China and FSB oversight