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Putin was going to meet with CIA chief Ratcliffe, but changed his mind

A source close to the Kremlin said that Vladimir Putin was going to meet with U.S. CIA Director John Ratcliffe during his visit to Moscow on August 25, but canceled the meeting after learning the purpose of the trip. According to the source, Ratcliffe came with a call to agree as soon as possible on ending the war.

#VladimirPutin #asource #TotheKremlin #Putin #CIARatcliffe #CIAJohnRatcliffe

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Saving Private Wildberries. Why the state is in no hurry to help Russia’s largest marketplace

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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Forcing Peace. What Will Make Putin Stop the War in Ukraine

Team Zelensky still hopes that as soon as Russian citizens realize the state is unable to protect them, an uprising will begin in the country. However, these expectations fit poorly with how modern Russia is organized. Putin’s main vulnerability lies elsewhere.

#warinAfghanistan #WarinUkraine #Zelensky #Russianhistory #NATO #forecast #Putin #Russia #Trump

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House Built from the Roof. What Russian Exile Opposition and United Russia Have in Common

In June, Russian opposition figures led by Ilya Yashin created the Peaceful Russia party in Berlin, which stands against the war and Vladimir Putin. But its vision of the country’s future largely reproduces the same centralized model of power that the opposition itself usually criticizes

#democracy #IlyaYashin #mokvocentrism #opposition #partybuilding #Putin #Regions #Russia

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The Russian-Ukrainian war could spill over onto Belarusian territory. And that would be Zelensky’s mistake

The escalation of mutual threats between Lukashenko and Zelensky has been steadily intensifying over the past three months. And it has not been only words: things are quite serious

#Analytics #Belarus #WarinUkraine #ArmedForcesofUkraine #Zelensky #acrisis #Lukashenko #Putin #Russia

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From Chișinău to Yerevan. Why Russia’s Former Allies Are Choosing the European Union

This Sunday, June 7, Armenia is holding parliamentary elections-and the campaign there is unfolding according to a logic reminiscent of Moldova’s 2025 campaign. Nikol Pashinyan’s party is building its campaign around theses similar to those used in Moldova by Maia Sandu’s party: European integration and resistance to Russian threats. However, this is driven not only by the desire to protect themselves from Moscow. Both Armenian and Moldovan societies have become disillusioned with Russia as a partner that promised support but failed to provide it at key moments. For Armenia, this resulted in the loss of Karabakh; in Moldova, residents of Transnistria nearly ran out of gas in winter. The European course is seen as an alternative and a way to escape pressure, economic restrictions, and political ultimatums from Moscow. This distancing from Russia will apparently continue as long as Vladimir Putin remains in power in the Kremlin.

#Analytics #Armenia #elections #europe #Europeanintegration #Moldova #pashinyan #Putin #Russia

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«They Want to Live Well and Remember Nothing»

Director Liza Stishova made a documentary for the Ost-West TV channel called «Germans in Russia,» featuring people who are currently moving from Germany to Russia in search of a better life. To understand their motivation, she delves into the history of German colonists from the time of Catherine the Great, talks to ethnic Germans who survived Stalin’s deportations, and investigates the biography of her own grandfather, who helped organize those deportations. We spoke with Liza about what her film’s protagonists are willing to ignore for their own comfort, and why they choose to live in Russia—a country that has just experienced a major wave of protest emigration.

#Germany #deportationofpeoplestotheUSSR #documentary #europe #interview #historicalmemory #LizaStishova #GermansinRussia #Putin #repressions #selfcensorship #Stalin #reliableprices #Emigration

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Russian Security Forces Begin Unprecedented Internet Blockades. Will This Lead to Mass Protests?

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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World War by the Laws of Postmodernism: Putin and Trump Against Global Progress

The general public often treats postmodernist practices with a certain lack of seriousness—since historical religious dogmas can be ironically and bizarrely combined with thoroughly cynical modern «business pragmatism.» However, the growing number of victims of these postmodernist wars is all too real.    

#war #EuropeanUnion #Iran #China #conservativesvsliberals #world #Restructuring #aftertheUSSR #satisfactionoftheclaimant #rightandleft #Putin #Russia #USA #Trump #Ukraine #philosophy #essay

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«Siberianization» or Sinicization? Where Russia’s Turn to the East Will Lead

«Siberianization» reflects the Russian authorities’ anti-European course, in which they have chosen complete economic dependence on China instead of cooperation with the West. Meanwhile, in China, there have long been dreams of reclaiming Siberian territories, which are considered there to have been unjustly ceded to the Russian Empire.

#WarinUkraine #EastandWest #upasashe #FarEast #China #microelectronics #industry #Putin #revanchism #Russia #Siberia #Economy

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Russia Needs Women’s Politics. For Now, Patriarchy Reigns Instead

There are women in the country ready to change politics and society. But mostly, only those who do not challenge the system make it into power. Dissenters are pushed out of politics or subjected to repression.

#activizi #AnnaPolitkovskaya #ValentinaMatvienko #ValentinaTereshkova #power #state #democracy #dictatorship #Europeanvalues #women #patriarchy #Putin #repressions #Russia #feminism #essay

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A Hero of Our Time. In Memory of Alexei Navalny

Today marks two years since the death of Alexei Navalny. On the eve of the anniversary, five countries (the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands) issued an official statement that several independent laboratories had confirmed his poisoning with an extremely toxic substance—in essence, a chemical weapon. Only the Russian authorities had both the means and the motive to use it in the polar colony. On the anniversary of Navalny’s murder, the editorial team of «Most.Media» publishes a polemical essay by our reader I.B. from Russia. The anonymity requested by the author is necessary: the Russian authorities continue political repression against Navalny’s supporters even after his death.

#democracy #dictatorship #discussion #historicalmemory #Bulk #opposition #aftertheUSSR #BeautifulRussiaoftheFuture #Putin #householdtype #repressions #Russia #Sakharov #freedom #thick #themurderofAlexeiNavalny #FBK #Christianity #essay

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Russian Anti-War Activist Vladislav Krasnov Arrested in the US During Routine ICE Visit

«It's not like I'm hiding — if the immigration court wants to find me, they can do it anywhere, if they want to,» Vladislav Krasnov told «Most» in an interview at the end of last year. A US federal court denied the active supporter of Alexei Navalny political asylum in March 2025, after he had already spent 444 days in American immigration detention centers in conditions close to torture. Now Vladislav is set to be deported to Russia, where he faces arrest.

#antiwaractivists #deportation #Bulk #Putin #repressions #Russia #USA #Trump #Emigration

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In four years, Russia has lost 20 times more people in Ukraine than the USSR did in ten years in Afghanistan

At the end of January, the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published updated data on casualties in the Russia-Ukraine war. According to analysts’ estimates, the total number of killed, wounded, and missing amounts to 1.8 million people. Of these, 1.2 million are Russian losses, and 600,000 are Ukrainian losses.

#Analytics #warinAfghanistan #WarinUkraine #Zelensky #aftertheUSSR #every #Putin #Russia #statistics #Ukraine

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«The Hardest Winter in Four Years of War»

Old New Year has passed, the Christmas holidays are over, and 2026 has fully come into its own. The wild start to the new calendar stretch—Nicolás Maduro’s nighttime flight, the resurgence of piracy in the Atlantic Ocean, and blood-soaked Iran—may have pushed into the background the fact that we have now been living for four years in the largest war in Europe in the last 80 years.

#Analytics #WarinUkraine #state #europe #Zelensky #violence #society #forecasts #Putin #Russia #USA #Trump

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«If Putin decides to attack Europe, he’ll need to do it while Trump is in power»

Until the early 2020s, Abbas Gallyamov was integrated into the Russian power structure: he worked as a speechwriter for Vladimir Putin when he was prime minister, as a political consultant in regional elections, and as deputy head of the administration of the president of Bashkortostan. But after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, Gallyamov left for Israel, was labeled a foreign agent by the Russian Ministry of Justice, and last year was sentenced in absentia to eight years for «discrediting the Russian army.» We spoke with Abbas about the changing world order after Trump’s election, the prospects of a Russian invasion of an EU neighbor, and how friends of Putin’s younger daughter are quietly preparing to take power into their own hands.

#AbbasGallyamov #authoritarianism #WarinUkraine #Hitler #EuropeanUnion #interview #resultsfor2025 #KaterinaTikhonova #Lithuania #Moldova #Mussolini #forecasts #Putin #Russia #Trump #WorldWarIII #futurology #Economy #Estonia

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«Our ancestors — people who died for nothing»

Near Lesnaya metro station in St. Petersburg, at 61 Lesnoy Prospekt, stands a building with columns. This is the «house of specialists,» built in the 1930s in the style of Stalinist neoclassicism. Creative and scientific intelligentsia lived here, including artist Nathan Altman, radio engineer Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich, and writer Alexander Kuprin. It was from here that many were taken during the «Great Terror.» Now, plaques of the «Last Address» project are installed on the house for former residents who became victims of political repression in the USSR. The last two names appeared on the facade on Sunday, December 14 — on the day of remembrance for academician Andrei Sakharov. A «Most» correspondent attended the ceremony for installing the memorial signs.

#WarinUkraine #lifeinRussia #historicalmemory #cultureofmemory #society #Petersburg #Thelastedge #Putin #reportage #repressions #Stalin

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«Russian Punitive Agencies Keep a Close Eye on Deportees from the US»

How can political émigrés who end up in American immigration jails be saved from extradition to Russia? What do FSB psychologists ask passengers on deportation flights during interrogations? And why don’t Western governments help Russian antiwar refugees? A wide-ranging conversation with Dmitry Valuev, president of the human rights organization Russian America for Democracy in Russia (RADR).

#refugees #bigtalk #WarinUkraine #state #deportation #interview #personalexperience #Bulk #opposition #rightandleft #Putin #USA #Trump #Emigration

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Heeding the Horrors of War: What Consequences Could the New World Order in Ukraine Have for Europe

The fewer economic, cultural, and simply human ties between Russia and European countries, the more conflict stories there are, the easier it will be to turn toward a possible military clash. No one in Europe wants such a development, but a peaceful Russian-Ukrainian agreement as imposed by the American administration looks like a respite for the aggressor. Therefore, Europe and Ukraine need to build a new structure to deter Russia together, without wasting time.

#Analytics #security #WarinUkraine #weapons #Germany #EuropeanUnion #NATO #truce #Putin #Russia #USA #Trump #Athreat #France

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