● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia ☞ A grim year: Meduza’s Andrey Pertsev sums up the key developments in Russia’s domestic #politics in 2021 https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/10/a-grim-year
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● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #Police ☞ Day six of #Kazakhstan ’s unrest Police are ordered to shoot to kill, the president doubles down on ‘terrorists and killers’ rhetoric, and rumors spread about Nazarbayev https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/07/day-six-of-kazakhstan-s-unrest
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #Kazakhstan ☞ Overnight developments in Kazakhstan’s uprising CSTO peacekeepers have been deployed, and an ‘antiterrorist operation’ is underway against protesters and rioters https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/06/overnight-developments-in-kazakhstan-s-uprising
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #Kazakhstan ☞ From ‘demonstrators’ to ‘terrorists’ How Kazakhstani officials changed the way they talk about the unrest now sweeping the nation https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/06/from-demonstrators-to-terrorists
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #Kazakhstan ☞ ‘This is a turning point’ In a dispatch from Almaty, a local journalist shares an eyewitness account of Kazakhstan’s uprising https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/06/this-is-a-turning-point
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #Kazakhstan ☞ Kazakhstan’s revolt continues Thousands arrested, dozens killed, and gunfire in Almaty as authorities crackdown on protesters https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/06/kazakhstan-s-revolt-continues
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #Kazakhstan ☞ Technically legal How Kazakhstan won peacekeepers from a Russian-led military alliance https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/07/technically-legal
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #insurrection ☞ Moscow calls unrest in #Kazakhstan an ‘externally incited’ insurrection by ‘trained and organized armed formations’ https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/01/06/moscow-calls-unrest-in-kazakhstan-an-externally-incited-insurrection-by-trained-and-organized-armed-formations
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #Kazakhstan ☞ An uprising in Kazakhstan Nazarbayev is removed from nation’s Security Council as state authorities vow ‘extreme’ #police response to protests https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/05/an-uprising-in-kazakhstan
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #police ☞ Protests in #Kazakhstan against doubled fuel prices escalate to clashes with police https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/01/05/protests-in-kazakhstan-against-doubled-fuel-prices-escalate-to-clashes-with-police
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #Alphabet ☞ #Gulag reportedly threatens to delete video from U.S.-based blogger after Russian censor flags it as ‘illegal gay propaganda’ https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/01/04/google-reportedly-threatens-to-delete-video-from-u-s-based-blogger-after-russian-censor-flags-it-as-illegal-gay-propaganda
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia ☞ Bloomberg says U.S. officials were just handed ‘highest-level #Kremlin insider in recent memory' https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/01/03/bloomberg-says-u-s-officials-were-just-handed-highest-level-kremlin-insider-in-recent-memory
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #MikhailFedyayev #Siberia ☞ ‘A mix of schadenfreude and fear’ The arrest of one of Russia’s richest men following a deadly mine explosion has pleased locals but raised worries about regional stability https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/12/31/a-mix-of-schadenfreude-and-fear
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia ☞ A (very) close-knit circle Russia’s Circle of #KindnessFoundation helps critically ill children by purchasing expensive drugs from providers with personal connections to top officials (including Putin himself) https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/12/30/a-very-close-knit-circle
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia ☞ Russia designates #PussyRiot activists, #Holod Media chief editor, and others as ‘foreign agents’ https://meduza.io/en/news/2021/12/30/russia-designates-pussy-riot-activists-holod-media-chief-editor-and-others-as-foreign-agents
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia # ☞ ‘Nobody canceled blood feuds’ The relatives of Chechen dissidents are being kidnapped — both in Chechnya and in other parts of Russia https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/12/30/nobody-canceled-blood-feuds
● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #StPetersburg ☞ Pending trial, St. Petersburg court releases video blogger charged with felony offense for performing song https://meduza.io/en/news/2021/12/29/pending-trial-st-petersburg-court-releases-video-blogger-charged-with-felony-offense-for-performing-song