The Russian and English -language portal of the jellyfish is one of the most important independent Russian media. In January 2023, Medusa was completely banned in Russia. But Medusa continues to raise her vote against the war – from exile. Since March 1, 2023, TAZ has been presented every Wednesday in Taz.de/meduza in the weekly selection, which is currently reported by Medusa. The project is funded by the Panther Panther Foundation.
From 3-9 July In 2025, Medusa reported, among other things, about the following topics:
Election observer actively valid
An independent Golos electoral observation group, which works throughout Russia, announced that they would hire its activities. According to the application, published by the organization, this decision follows in five years of prison for the condemnation of its co -chairman Grigory Melkondjant. Reason: Organization of the activities of an “undesirable” organization. Medusa spoke English.
“This court decision does not give us any other choice. He not only puts all Golos members of the danger to be implemented in accordance with criminal law, but also those who were looking for only tips or legal assistance, ”the group said.
All Golos regional branches are now closed. All projects, as well as the organization’s information resources – including the website, the “violation card” and accounts on social networks – are deleted from the network and are no longer updated. Monthly subscriptions for donations to support Golos also stop.
The voice has been working in Russia since 2000, initially like a club, later as a civil movement. In 2013, the Russian Ministry of Justice classified the Voice Association as a “foreign agent”. Then some of their members founded the Golos movement, which continued to watch the elections. The association was later officially dissolved.
Minister of Dead Transport, Corruption and Open Questions
On the morning of July 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decision on the resignation of the Minister of Transport Roman Starorov. A few hours later it became known that Starovoit committed suicide. This suicide is associated with the approval of embezzlement in the construction of defense line in the Russian region of Kursk. Starowoit was a governor from Kursk from October 2018 to May 2024. Medusa reports in Russian.
The Kursk region received more than 19 billion rubles from the federal budget for the construction of defense systems. The funds were ruled by the regional chief department of construction, while the development corporation of the Kursk region acted as a general contractor.
The company completed 23 contracts with several companies. They were checked by four business people: Maxim Vasiliev, Yuri Bessonov, Vladislav Martyanov and Ivan Utkin. The court later found that they stole a total of more than four billion rubles from the construction project – more than a quarter of all the funds provided. Lubricants for officials ranged from ten to 25 percent. Part of the money was deducted and spent on expensive cars and real estate.
How the attacks of drones were paralyzed by Russian aviation
The Ukrainian attacks of drones caused a crisis at several Russian airports at the weekend: between Saturday evening and morning on Monday, more than 2000 flights were violated. Medusa explains the events in English.
According to the agency, the airlines conducted 43,000 involuntary tickets of tickets within two days and organized hotels for 94,000 people. In addition, the airlines provided 155,000 vouchers for food and 199,000 vouchers on drinks.
On Sunday evening in St. Petersburg there were also mobile Internet failures, which also affected the airport area.
According to experts, a widespread cancellation of flights can cost Russian airlines billions of rubles. According to two large airlines, the collapse of traffic at the three most important airports on July 5 could cost airlines from at least 3.9 to 5.9 billion rubles (from 49.6 to 75 million dollars).
Why is the crisis of Russia growing with Azerbaijan
After the death of Azerbaijani migrants, the crisis in relations between Russia and Azerbaijan intensified even more when they were arrested by Russian security forces. In response to the arrests of Baku, he took difficult measures against Russian citizens: eleven people were beaten and arrested.
Why is Azerbaijan so hard to react to Russia’s measures? And why does the conflict go to its climax? Nurlan Aliyev, a researcher of the European College, does not believe that the conflict will continue to grow. He explains this in an interview with Meduza in Russian.
“Moscow does not want to open a second front during an invasion of Ukraine, so as not to endanger his project of the Corridor North-South, joint projects with Baku and partnership with Turkey. And Baku does not want to worsen the situation with Azerbaijani migrants in Russia, loses the most important market for its agricultural products in the form of Russia and give.
