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THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. Mediazona is struggling. We’ve tracked 100K Russian casualties in Ukraine. Covered political prisoners repression. We survived Putin’s censors. Our reporters risk prison. Our editors will now work without pay. We need your help: en.zona.media/article/2025/0…

For decades, Russia’s black market for personal data, aka probiv, fed by leaks from state databases, enabled everything from journalistic investigations to criminal schemes. Now the Kremlin is cracking down. The screws are tightening: en.zona.media/article/2025/0…

Moscow’s crackdown on the probiv data market has targeted an ex-MoD official “essential to nuclear deterrence” and a data broker with FSB ties. Mikhail Seifetdinov was detained on July 24, the same day Solaris probiv service went offline en.zona.media/article/2025/0…

Russian Supreme Court Judge Oleg Nefedov rules to recognise the “International Satanism movement” as “extremist.” In November 2023, the same judge did the same thing to the “international LGBT movement” en.zona.media/article/2025/0…

In Putin’s formative years, Rosa Luxemburg was a Soviet icon, with her name on streets and in schoolbooks. Today, her namesake foundation was banned in Russia as an “undesirable organization.” Mention it or send a donation, and you could face prosecution