After Russia’s Supreme Court declared the «international LGBT public movement» an extremist organization in 2023, queer people have had to look for new ways to protect themselves. For some women, that way has been marriage to a man: it allows them to look «like everyone else» in the eyes of others and enjoy the corresponding social privileges. But safety comes at the cost of hiding oneself and new psychological trauma. «Most» tells four such stories.

#state #lifeinRussia #queerwomen #LGBTQ #personalexperience #society #humanrights #repressionsinRussia #stigma #survivalstrategies #feminism

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The Supreme Court of Russia has prepared a concept for reforming the jury system, which calls for reducing the number of jurors to four and combining them into one panel with a professional judge. It is not yet specified exactly which courts are planned to change the jury composition.

#SupremeCourt #state #Russia #jurytrial

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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak instructed the relevant agencies and oil companies to prepare possible scenarios for a further deterioration of the situation in the Russian fuel market. They should include measures to increase the production of petroleum products and adjust the volume of their imports.

#Belarus #business #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #state #minenergo #oil #Russia #fuelcrisis #Ukraine

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The Bank of Russia is holding informal consultations with banks, depositories, and cryptocurrency exchangers about access to the legal Russian crypto market. After the first-line acts are published, participants will be able to apply for licenses and inclusion in registries, said First Deputy Governor of the Central Bank Vladimir Chistyukhin on the sidelines of the Moscow Financial Forum.

#bitcoin #ethereum #LinkUSDT #state #Cryptocurrency #cryptomarket #Russia #finance #CentralBank

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Siberian farmers had barely recovered from the mass slaughter of livestock in the spring when slaughter teams appeared again. This time — in Irkutsk Oblast and Zabaykalsky Krai. Now they are seizing not only cows, but also pigs.

#Analytics #business #vaccination #veterinarycontrol #state #Livestock #lifeinRussia #animaldisease #Regions #Agriculture #scandal #Farmers #epizootic

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The Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has charged former Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov in absentia with organizing a criminal group and large-scale fraud. He became a defendant in the Finiko financial pyramid case, which the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been investigating for several years.

#Finiko #state #Innopolis #corruption #MinistryofInternalAffairsofRussia #MinistryofCommunicationsofRussia #NikolayNikiforov #UnitedArabEmirates #tatarstan

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Donald Trump proposed that Congress introduce a federal tax credit for film and television production in the U.S. to bring filming back to the country. The initiative came after his post on Truth Social and a meeting at the White House.

#TruthSocial #Hollywood #state #movie #USA #Trump

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Kazakhstan has begun to gradually introduce paid electronic entry permits for foreigners who do not need a visa, including Russians. The Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) permit will be processed through the digital platform QazETA.

#visafreeentry #state #citizensofRussia #Kazakhstan #Emigration

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Soon after the AFU strikes on Ozon warehouses, it became known about Vladimir Putin’s decree on protecting infrastructure facilities. Its essence is simple: critical infrastructure facilities whose owners failed to ensure their security under conditions of external threats may be transferred to temporary state administration. The question of why business should perform the state’s duties does not even arise.

#Ozon #Analytics #droneattacks #business #Prigozhinsrebellion #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #state #retail #Russia #securityforces

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Desperate pleas from Wildberries owners and sellers to the government are provoking a sluggish and chaotic response. And it seems the issue is not just a banal lack of money.

#Wildberries #Analytics #business #WarinUkraine #elections #state #capitalism #acrisis #mobilization #society #Putin #retail #Russia #elites

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After a series of massive strikes on Wildberries warehouses, hundreds of amateur videos with the same content appeared on social media: sellers, in tears, talk about multimillion losses and complain that the state offers them no help, while the marketplace’s payouts are incomparable to the damage suffered. In early July, Wildberries introduced a new version of its offer, recognizing drone attacks as force majeure — and is now no longer obliged to compensate sellers for losses. Economist Nikolai Kulbaka is convinced: all this is not the fault of one specific company, but a systemic pattern of modern Russian capitalism.

#Wildberries #droneextermination #business #WarinUkraine #state #lifeinRussia #capitalism #acrisis

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Measures that can protect European cities from extreme heat are well known to scientists, governments, and business alike. Many of them are already working successfully in individual countries and cities. But why do these solutions still remain the exception rather than the rule?

#Analytics #business #Globalwarming #state #europe #heat #catastrophe #Climate #Thescience #urbanism

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When information appeared about Vincent Garenq’s upcoming film, one immediately thought it would be about freedom of speech, about radical Islamism, about society’s fear of it. But the director chose a different angle — this is a film about how the state does not protect its citizen, who is simply doing his job

#state #discussion #CannesFilmFestival #movie #Muse #violence #inventory #SamuelPaty #freedomofspeech #secularism #terrorism #murder #France #extremism

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Russian authorities have been restricting internet freedom for years. But recently, these restrictions have reached unprecedented levels and even surpassed China’s Great Firewall. The blockades are undermining the economy and sparking protests, yet the FSB, which now oversees control of the Russian internet, is not backing down.

#business #InternetblockinginRussia #state #theInternet #ArtificialIntelligence #China #acrisis #Nepal #Putin #Russia #freedom #securityforces #FSB #censorship

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The 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident is a reason to talk about many things. About the fatal flaws in the design of Soviet high-power reactors and the mistakes made by Anatoly Dyatlov’s ill-fated shift at Reactor No. 4. About the heroism of firefighters like Vladimir Pravik, who battled the flames at the plant, and the courage of hundreds of others involved in the cleanup. About the debates among Soviet bureaucrats and scientists regarding what really happened in Pripyat. Finally, about the construction of the one-of-a-kind sarcophagus over the explosion-ravaged Chernobyl reactor. But most importantly, it’s worth recalling how the Kremlin first denied the disaster on April 26, 1986, then concealed its true scale—and ultimately lost the battle against reality in less than three weeks.

#nuclearenergy #Belarus #state #Twoleggedbelt #historicalmemory #catastrophe #MikhailGorbachev #society #Restructuring #PolitburooftheCentralCommitteeoftheCPSU #theUSSR #Ukraine #censorship #Chernobyl #nuclearexplosion

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There should be only one entry point for consumers — Russian Post. All private marketplaces will also have to operate through it, and, according to the government's logic, they'll even have to pay for the privilege.

#Analytics #business #state #delivery #theInternet #communication #acrisis #mail #protests #Russia

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In ancient times, it took the Jews forty years to mentally overcome slavery and enter the Promised Land. How long will it take us to overcome the Soviet past?

#AlexanderMen #AlexanderSolzhenitsyn #AndreiSakharov #Bible #BorisYeltsin #Germany #state #democracy #Jews #WestandEast #ImmanuelKant #KoradAstiauer #Nazism #Restructuring #aftertheUSSR #Orthodoxy #slavery #reformsinRussia #freedom #ThirdReich

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Today is World Autism Awareness Day. It’s a good reason to talk about a new form of discrimination against people with this diagnosis in Russia: recently, they have been banned from driving cars. The updated list of medical contraindications for driving now includes autism spectrum disorders. We spoke with ASD experts about why this ban is absurd and harmful.

#autism #state #discrimination #medicine #society #psychiatry #autismdisorder #Russia

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For the second week, Siberian farmers have been protesting against the destruction of animals on their farms. Despite public outrage, the slaughter continues and is now spreading to other regions. Slaughter teams arrive with the police, officials read out orders about a «dangerous disease» — but never say which one, and run away from farmers. Conspiracy theories are multiplying across the country.

#veterinarycontrol #state #animaldisease #conspiracytheories #associations #cattle #Miratorg #protests #Russia #Agriculture #scandal #Farmers

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The sharp drop in university admissions last year is easy to explain by government policy, where «loyalty is valued over intelligence.» But the reasons for the crisis in higher education run much deeper.

#state #discussion #lifeinRussia #career #acrisis #education #society #aftertheUSSR #universities

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