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What happens to Russia’s political prisoners now that OVD-Info, a leading human rights group, has been declared ‘extremist’?

The independent human rights project OVD-Info has been added to the registry of terrorists and extremists managed by Rosfinmonitoring, Russia’s financial intelligence agency — along with Memorial and dozens of organizations affiliated with it. The cultural venue Revolt Center and the museum Perm-36 were also added to the list. Why these institutions — and OVD-Info — were included in the registry is unclear. But anyone who’s supported them now faces legal jeopardy.

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Russia adds independent human rights monitor OVD-Info to list of ‘extremist’ organizations

Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) has added the independent human rights monitor OVD-Info to its list of extremist organizations.

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With SPIEF underway downtown, St. Petersburg’s outskirts balance summer weather and a burning oil terminal as residents try to shrug off Ukraine’s latest drone strike

On the morning of June 3, Ukraine launched a large-scale drone strike on the St. Petersburg region, injuring several people — the exact number was never disclosed — and hitting an oil terminal and infrastructure facilities in Kronstadt. The Leningrad region’s governor, Alexander Drozdenko, said 59 drones were shot down over the region that day. A correspondent for the independent journalism cooperative Bereg visited the neighborhoods hit by the strikes and filed this report from the city in the aftermath of the attack, which came on the opening day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

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Russians recruited for war through classified ads promising jobs in ‘rear positions’ in Belarus and China

Job listings have appeared on the Russian classifieds site Avito offering contracts for service in the “rear of the SVO” in Belarus and China. Verstka, an independent Russian news outlet, first flagged the listings.

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Russia’s war reaches the sandbox as tank carousels and fighter jets take over Moscow’s playgrounds

Russian authorities are pushing propaganda and ideology into universities, schools, and kindergartens. Militarist trends have reached even playgrounds, driven by this year’s 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. On the eve of Children’s Day, June 1, a photographer from the independent journalism collective Bereg visited Moscow’s playgrounds to document what urban childhood looks like in Russia today. Architecture journalist Asya Zolnikova spoke with playground architects and a child psychologist. Meduza is republishing the story in full.

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Russia jails student for 15 years on treason and terrorism charges over Telegram channel. He attempted suicide before his arrest, in pretrial detention, and during prison transfer.

A Russian military court has sentenced Rafael Mamedov, a 23-year-old student and creator of the Telegram channel “Svobodnaya Laplandiya” (“Free Lapland”), to 15 years in prison on charges of treason and participation in an organization Russian authorities have designated as terrorist. The Northern Fleet Military Court in Severomorsk handed down the sentence on June 1, according to OVD-Info, an independent Russian human rights monitor.

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Russian war veteran accused of killing civilians in Bucha makes United Russia list in regional primary

A veteran of the war in Ukraine, Nursultan Mussagaleyev, finished second in a United Russia primary for the party’s regional list in the Orenburg region. The independent Russian investigative outlet Agentstvo drew attention to the result.

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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 state news agencies have sharply cut their coverage of Putin. He has almost stopped traveling around the country and abroad.

The Russian state news agencies TASS, RIA Novosti, and Interfax have sharply cut their coverage of Vladimir Putin since the start of 2026, according to a count by the independent Russian investigative outlet Agentstvo.

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Some pro-Kremlin Russian outlets published reports on the sharp rise in wage arrears — then deleted them.

Some pro-Kremlin Russian outlets did publish reports on the sharp rise in wage arrears, the independent Russian business outlet The Bell said.

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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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Friends of the dead dispute Ukraine’s claim that a strike on a college in occupied Luhansk targeted a Russian drone unit’s headquarters

On the night of May 21–22, Ukrainian drones struck targets in the annexed Luhansk region, hitting the Starobilsk Pedagogical College and the Vocational College of Luhansk Pedagogical University. The two colleges share a dormitory building; because the vocational college has no basement of its own, students from both schools shelter in the pedagogical college’s basement during air raid warnings. According to Russian officials, about 80 students were in a shared dormitory at the time of the attack, having returned to their rooms after an earlier alert. Twenty-one people were killed; many more were wounded. Bereg, a cooperative of independent journalists, spoke with classmates and friends of the dead.

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Moscow bar employee sentenced to three years in prison for posting Easter hookah video

A Moscow court sentenced Ksenia Belousova, an employee of a Moscow bar, to three years and 25 days in prison on charges of offending the religious feelings of believers, the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona and the Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti reported. She was taken into custody in the courtroom.

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Report: Three candidates are being discussed to succeed Nabiullina as Russia’s central bank chief. Her term expires in 2027.

Russian officials and bankers are privately debating three likely candidates to succeed Elvira Nabiullina as head of Russia’s central bank, the independent Russian news outlet The Bell reports. Her term expires on June 24, 2027.

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Apple removed 1,213 apps at Russia’s internet regulator’s request in 2025

Apple removed 2,045 apps from the App Store in 2025 at the request of government authorities — in more than half of those cases, at the direction of Roskomnadzor. The figures come from Apple’s annual transparency report, which the independent Russian investigative outlet iStories was among the first to flag.

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13-year-old boy in Russia accused of ‘LGBT promotion’ faces possible transfer to school for juvenile offenders

Police in an unidentified Russian region filed reports against a 13-year-old boy on charges of “LGBT promotion” and displaying extremist symbols, the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported.

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‘No fuel — none at all.’ Independent gas stations in Russia face gasoline shortage after Ukrainian drone strikes on refineries

Independent gas station chains, which handle about 40% of fuel sales in Russia, can no longer restock their gasoline supplies. Chats used by oil traders and managers at those chains are “in a panic,” the independent Russian news outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe reported.

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Report: St. Petersburg State University orders staff and students to use Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max

St. Petersburg State University has ordered students and staff to use the Max messenger as its internal communications platform “for online communication and information sharing,” the independent Russian news outlet T-invariant reported.

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Report: Abramovich tied to Russian payment platform created to evade sanctions, serving drone makers

Russian billionaires Roman Abramovich and Viktor Kharitonin may be tied to A7, a payment platform created in 2024 to help Russia move money across borders in defiance of Western sanctions — and which has itself been placed under sanctions. That is the finding of an investigation by the independent Russian investigative outlet Proekt, whose sources describe A7 as the dominant player in the cross-border payments market.

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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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What happens to Russia’s political prisoners now that OVD-Info, a leading human rights group, has been declared ‘extremist’?

Russia adds independent human rights monitor OVD-Info to list of ‘extremist’ organizations

With SPIEF underway downtown, St. Petersburg’s outskirts balance summer weather and a burning oil terminal as residents try to shrug off Ukraine’s latest drone strike

Russians recruited for war through classified ads promising jobs in ‘rear positions’ in Belarus and China

Russia’s war reaches the sandbox as tank carousels and fighter jets take over Moscow’s playgrounds

Russia jails student for 15 years on treason and terrorism charges over Telegram channel. He attempted suicide before his arrest, in pretrial detention, and during prison transfer.

Russian war veteran accused of killing civilians in Bucha makes United Russia list in regional primary

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

Russian state news agencies have sharply cut their coverage of Putin. He has almost stopped traveling around the country and abroad.

Some pro-Kremlin Russian outlets published reports on the sharp rise in wage arrears — then deleted them.

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

Friends of the dead dispute Ukraine’s claim that a strike on a college in occupied Luhansk targeted a Russian drone unit’s headquarters

Moscow bar employee sentenced to three years in prison for posting Easter hookah video

Report: Three candidates are being discussed to succeed Nabiullina as Russia’s central bank chief. Her term expires in 2027.

Apple removed 1,213 apps at Russia’s internet regulator’s request in 2025

13-year-old boy in Russia accused of ‘LGBT promotion’ faces possible transfer to school for juvenile offenders

‘No fuel — none at all.’ Independent gas stations in Russia face gasoline shortage after Ukrainian drone strikes on refineries

Report: St. Petersburg State University orders staff and students to use Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max

Report: Abramovich tied to Russian payment platform created to evade sanctions, serving drone makers

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