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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Last Saturday, the Paris resource center Espace Libertés Reforum Space hosted a presentation of Ksenia Kirillova’s poetry collection, illustrated by Masha Moskalyova, «A Hillock on Canvas.» This is the first release of the Most.Media publishing program, the first publication experience for the 16-year-old artist, and the first in-person meeting of all participants in the creative process. At the public talk, together with Masha’s father, Alexey Moskalyov, we discussed creativity in political emigration — as well as the circumstances that led all participants in this discussion into emigration: the war in Ukraine and the repression in Russia against its opponents. We are publishing an abridged transcript of our conversation for easier reading.

#recruitment #WarinUkraine #children #DianaandIrinaLoginov #discussion #dissidents #west #MashaandAlexeyMoskalyov #prose #repressions #Parents #Russia #SergeyEfron #resistance #specialservices #poems #Emigration

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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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Former choreographers, accountants, and fitness trainers, after express psychology courses, record polished videos and take on children and adults as clients. Their clients either become disillusioned with psychology or end up with psychiatrists with worsened problems. The State Duma has been unable to pass a law regulating private psychologists for 12 years.

#business #TheStateDuma #law #health #incompetence #psychology #Russia #market #tendencies #services #privatepsychologists

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«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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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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From 2019 to 2024, the share of high school graduates entering universities in Russia dropped from 86% to 60%. In most developed countries during the same period, access to higher education continued to grow — since the modern economy demands increasingly complex skills.

#future #WarinUkraine #west #education #aftertheUSSR #forecast #Russia #statistics #theuniversity #school #expertise

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On February 27, 2015, politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead in the center of Moscow. Since then, Russia has changed radically—not only politically, but morally as well. This crime became the point after which the authorities realized: nothing will happen for killing an opponent.

#BorisNemtsov #VladimirPutin #power #WarinUkraine #warinChechnya #violence #Nemtsovka #memory #policy #criminalpunishmentandpunishment #Russia #securityforces #murder #essay

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The history of the formation of the Cossacks in the territories of modern Ukraine and Russia had common features and causes. But there was also one fundamental difference. While in Russia the Cossacks are considered a separate, specific part of the Russian people (although some Cossacks categorically define themselves as a separate ethnic group), in Ukraine they are an integral and, without quotation marks, state-forming part of the Ukrainian nation. So the words of the anthem, «І покажем, що ми, браття, козацького роду» («And we will show that we, brothers, are of the Cossack lineage»), are not just a beautiful metaphor.

#Dimoit #GoldenHorde #quality #Lithuania #Muscovy #nonimperialhistory #Poland #PolishLithuanianCommonwealth #Russia #Ukraine #frontier #Interests

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In January 2026, the human rights organization Russian America for Democracy in Russia (RADR) succeeded in stopping the deportation of nine Russians from the US back to Russia. We spoke with RADR President Dmitry Valuev about how this works amid mass protests against President Trump’s anti-immigration policies.

#VladislavKrasnov #deportation #DmitryValuev #interview #Iran #migrationpolicy #populism #Russia #USA #Trump #Emigration

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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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«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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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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One of the most talked-about topics around the world is the dossier on American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who for decades organized elite sex parties with billionaires and politicians. On July 6, 2019, this man, already convicted of pimping and involving minors in prostitution, was arrested on new sex trafficking charges. A month and four days later, Epstein was found dead in his jail cell; the official version is suicide. Many see his email archive as a basket of dirty laundry from a notorious matchmaker and pedophile who meticulously documented the sexual preferences of his high-profile clients. In reality, things are much more complicated.

#America #JeffreyEpstein #DmitryRybolovlev #DonaldTrump #oligarchs #Russia #SaudiArabia #SergeyLavrov #scandal #Epsteinfiles

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Last week, the «Russian Volunteer Corps» finally published its program and ideological doctrine. «Finally»—because this nationalist formation, which switched sides to Ukraine in February 2022, has long called on the Russian opposition to unite. Of course, by default—under the banners of the RVC. In short, hopes for a proper evolution of Russian nationalists have not come true.

#WarinUkraine #demography #democracy #discussion #Institute #ideology #Nazism #new #opposition #rightandleft #reformsofthe1990s #Russia #Russiannationalists #Russianmilitarycorps #ThirdReich #LaborandCapital #fascism

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For almost a year, Russia was engaged in selling the Serbian oil and gas company NIS, which is controlled by Gazprom. During this time, the actions of the Russian side brought Serbia to the brink of a fuel crisis. This story could completely change Russia’s role in the Balkans.

#Analytics #Balkans #Hungary #gas #Gazprom #europe #oil #uae #Russia #sanctions #Serbia #USA #fuelcrisis

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In early January 2026, Russian journalist and emigrant Evgeny Safronov tragically died near Paris. This story exposed the problem of vulnerability among people experiencing prolonged stress and social isolation, which many emigrants face. We spoke with staff from the Reforum Help psychological support service about the signs of psychological distress and how to help yourself and others during such times.

#Helpontheforum #WarinUkraine #psychology #Russia #suicide #France #Emigration

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In January 1986, the newly elected General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Mikhail Gorbachev, proposed that all countries in the world give up nuclear weapons. In 1988, in his book, he directly stated that universal human values are more important than class values. These ideas gave rise to the concept of «new thinking,» which changed much in international politics. Why didn’t these changes work, and why, forty years later, have we fallen into a historical abyss?

#DonaldTrump #europe #west #imperialism #Internationalpolitics #MikhailGorbachev #moussesilence #aftertheUSSR #Russia #USA #ColdWar

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In the winter of 1996, nearly twice as many hostages were taken in Kizlyar as in Budyonnovsk just six months earlier; in terms of sheer numbers, the terrorist attack in Dagestan remains the largest in Russian (and apparently world) history to this day. This crisis taught Russian ministers and generals that force is preferable to words, and any loss of life is better than losing face.

#1990s #BorisYeltsin #warinChechnya #Dagestan #hostagetaking #historicalmemory #Caucasus #regimentalcommanders #Russia #separatism #hillup #terrorism #FSB

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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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