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Russia’s internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, has been blocking Telegram for several months. The app remains accessible via VPN and proxy servers, but users have been abandoning it regardless — the restrictions have made the messaging service too cumbersome for everyday use. According to the news outlet Agentstvo, a fresh round of “throttling” in late April and early May caused Russian Telegram channels to lose roughly half their audiences. Meduza spoke with the operators of three channels that focus on news and politics and two that report on popular entertainment to find out how they are managing.

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Latvia’s message to artists who perform in Russia: don’t expect to play Riga. Just ask Xzibit.

Latvia canceled a Riga concert by rapper Xzibit after authorities learned of his recent performances in Russia, the Baltic news website Delfi reported. The show had been scheduled for September 19. Latvian authorities notified the organizers that the concert would not be permitted to go forward once they learned of Xzibit’s concerts in Russia.

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Joint investigation maps Russia’s military buildup along its NATO border. Finland could now face 80,000 Russian troops.

Russia has been expanding its military infrastructure along its entire western border throughout the winter of 2025–2026, including along the borders with Finland and Norway, according to a joint investigation by Norwegian broadcaster NRK, Swedish broadcaster SVT, Danish broadcaster DR, and the Estonian news website Delfi. The journalists based their findings on satellite imagery from Planet Labs.

Ukraine successfully tests new interceptor at one-fifth the price of a Patriot. Developer says mass production could begin as soon as August, if German supplier can deliver key component.

Ukrainian arms maker Fire Point has completed its first flight test of a new interceptor missile, the FP-7.x, which it developed as a lower-cost alternative to Patriot interceptor missiles, the Financial Times reported. Denis Shtilerman, Fire Point’s chief designer, described the test as “pretty successful.”

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Alexander Chayko’s men carried out the Bucha massacre. Moscow just made him Russia’s new Aerospace Forces commander.

Moscow has named Colonel General Alexander Chayko as the new commander in chief of Russia’s Aerospace Forces. Chayko’s biographical entry on the Defense Ministry’s website shows the appointment took effect in May.

Ukraine’s Flamingo missiles reached more than 1,000 kilometers inside Russia overnight, as air raid alerts sounded in new regions for the first time in the war

Ukraine launched a massive overnight drone and missile strike against targets across Russia on June 10. Russia’s Defense Ministry said drones were shot down over 19 regions and occupied Crimea. Authorities declared air alerts across all six regions of the Ural Federal District and, for the first time since the war began, in the Omsk region.

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Crimea hotel offered guests gasoline as a booking perk. The promotion was canceled four days later — the fuel ran out.

A spa hotel in the occupied Crimean city of Saky offered guests between 10 and 20 liters of gasoline as a booking incentive, then canceled the promotion after four days when the fuel ran out, the Russian Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti reported.

Putin steps up public appearances amid falling approval ratings

Vladimir Putin made noticeably more public appearances in April and May than he had in the first three months of 2026, according to the independent Russian political newsletter Faridaily, which reviewed Kremlin press service reports on the president’s participation in events.

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Russia’s surveillance expansion isn’t really about telecoms anymore — it’s about building a parallel ‘SORM’ inside every major company in the country

In late May, the newspaper Kommersant published an article reporting on the “expansion of the list of data that telecom operators are required to collect and transmit to law enforcement agencies” through SORM.

Pashinyan’s party wins nearly 50% of the vote in Armenia’s parliamentary elections and will hold a majority in parliament

Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party, led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, took 49.81% of the vote in parliamentary elections, the Central Election Commission reported after tallying results from all 2,005 precincts, according to News.am.

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Zelensky confirms Abramovich traveled to Kyiv to meet with him

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed in an interview with Sky News that the Russian businessman who traveled to Kyiv to meet with him was Roman Abramovich.

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European Commission pledges to tighten visa rules for Russians after 11 Schengen Zone countries push for restrictions

The European Commission has pledged to tighten visa rules for Russian citizens following a formal request from 11 Schengen Zone countries, Euronews reported.

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Russia’s central bank ties euro rate to dollar and European Central Bank benchmarks in bid to curb wild swings

Russia’s central bank introduced a new method for calculating the official euro-to-ruble exchange rate, the regulator announced on its website.

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Gas stations in Russia’s St. Petersburg region begin rationing fuel sales

Gas stations in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region have begun rationing fuel sales, the local news outlet Bumaga reports.

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Russia’s finance minister says authorities ‘didn’t go too far’ with tax hikes, though ‘there was such a risk’

Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said budget revenues from value-added tax, whose rate was raised at the start of the year, are running ahead of projections. Siluanov made the remarks at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, the Russian business news outlet RBC reported. He did not provide specific figures.

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Russia’s Justice Ministry says 96% of new ‘foreign agents’ receive no foreign funding

Only 4% of the people and organizations designated as “foreign agents” in Russia in 2025 actually receive foreign funding, Deputy Justice Minister Oleg Sviridenko said, according to the Russian business daily Kommersant.

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Moscow and Moscow region begin imposing fuel purchase limits

The ORTK gas station chain has imposed fuel purchase limits across its Moscow-region network, Msk1.ru and the Telegram news channel “Ostorozhno, Moskva” reported.

Debt at Russia’s five biggest tech firms swells to two trillion rubles, outpacing asset growth

The combined debt of Russia’s five largest technology companies rose 53 percent in 2025 to reach two trillion rubles ($27.3 billion), according to a report by Russia’s central bank titled “Financial Stability Review.” The Russian financial news outlet Frank Media was among the first to flag the data.

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In new commercial, Russian electronics chain uses AI to show Prigozhin parachuting from plane, but it’s not the Prigozhin you’re thinking of

Russian consumer electronics chain M.Video released an ad for its “White Friday” sale featuring music producer Iosif Prigozhin and his wife, singer Valeriya, who “invite shoppers to take flight aboard the ‘Discount Jet.’”

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Gas stations in Russia’s Belgorod and Kursk regions begin restricting fuel sales amid wider caps in occupied Luhansk and Crimea

Rosneft gas stations across several districts of Russia’s Belgorod region have stopped filling jerrycans with AI-92 gasoline (the Russian equivalent of U.S. regular). Residents of the Korochansky, Alekseyevsky, and Yakovlevsky districts, among others, told the Telegram news channel Pepel about the restrictions.

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