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 June 26 to July 26 In 2025, Medusa reported, among other things, about the following topics:
Return to war, and not return home
In May, Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners: each side freed 1000 soldiers, it was the largest exchange for this war. Now the families of many returning Russian soldiers say: not a single day could spend the released houses – even those who were seriously wounded. Instead, they were returned directly to the front.
Now some families are asking the authorities to allow soldiers to return home after their liberation. And some even hope that their relatives will remain captive – so as not to be sent back to war. An independent information agency said the window with relatives of Russian prisoners of war about what men expected after they returned to the alleged freedom in Russia. Jellyfish Published an abbreviated English version.
There are no more Ukrainian lessons in occupied Ukraine
At the beginning of the school year, 2025/2026, Russia plans to a complete ban on Ukrainian language lessons in schools in the occupied regions of Ukraine. The occupation authorities are working to cancel this lesson for many years and punish parents who have registered their children on online courses of Ukrainian courses. Journalists from BBC News Ukraine describe in detail how the previous efforts of the Russian authorities looked to suppress the lessons of the Ukrainian language and what will change now. Jellyfish Publishes the translation of your report in English.
Since 2024, Human Raits Raits, the Huuman Raits, showed that the Russian government and the occupation authorities used by Russia systematically acted against families who attended courses in Ukrainian. “The Russian authorities and their deputies punish long lessons or lessons in accordance with the Ukrainian curriculum – and threatened parents with fines, the abolition of guardianship for their children and even imprisonment,” the report said.
Why the Internet always fails in Russia
Again and again, the mobile Internet is disconnected in Russia, for millions of people this has become a new reality. While the authorities usually represent these local shutdowns in response to the risk of attacks by Ukrainian drones, their time and duration often do not correspond to the actual attacks. They are more often the result of the so -called measures for preventive security, for example, during the celebration of Victory Day in Moscow or the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg.
In any case, people in Russia should get used to being offline – and look for alternatives to access a mobile Internet. Jellyfish He asked the readers of his Russian website how they can cope with this new normality. And some of the most remarkable answers translated into English.
“I work in a large company FinTech. I have access to internal systems, and I can see malfunctions on the Internet in all regions of Russia in real time. There are many of them every day. Sometimes three regions fail, ”says one person from Moscow.
Stalin-Busten in Russia
In the city of Nikolsk, a bust of the Soviet head of Joseph Stalin was installed in the Vologogradski region in front of the school building. The sculpture is now located right next to the monument to the founder of the Soviet Union Lenin. The Nikolsk administration emphasized that this was done on the initiative of the local population.
This is the third monument for Stalin in the region of Vologradski, which was represented last year. In December 2024, a monument in Volokora in the village of Kadui, near the local museum, was published on the site of the Stalin Museum. The monument in Wologda was personally opened by Governor of George -Filimon, who was also one of the initiators of the establishment. Residents gathered three thousand signatures against the monument, but the authorities did not pay attention. But now the State Prosecutor’s Office even requires the removal of the monument.
Jellyfish Reports in Russian on overcoming the cause.
