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headquarters in KuwaitParaguay reimburses depositors after Ueno Bank seizureBangladesh tribunal warns Hasina faces execution if she returnsIsraeli forces kill 14-year-old in West Bank as arson attacks continueHungary detains Viktor Orbán's brother in people-smuggling probeGovernments tighten rules on minors' online safety and AI assistantsData-centre backlash grows in the US, Nordic Europe and ThailandAlibaba's chip unit T-Head files confidentially for Hong Kong IPOPope Leo draws an estimated 2.5 million to Mass in Buenos AiresMalaysian court clears Najib to start house arrestPentagon removes WuXi AppTec from list of Chinese military companiesUS skips UN human rights review againLast Russian diesel tanker bound for US turns backSpanish train drivers strike after two deadly crashes as nationwide walkout loomsSaudi liquidity squeeze adds pressure as PIF weighs fundraisingEgypt detains rail staff as inquiry finds safety failures before deadly crashAnthropic sets IPO price range valuing it at up to $1.4tnRussia, Ukraine and US resume Abu Dhabi talks as Europe's role is contestedTrump calls Iran war "effectively over" as Tehran denies talksNvidia shares fall as FBI and board probe CEO Huang's affairSaudi Arabia intercepts missiles over Riyadh as Houthi war escalatesHot US inflation cements Fed hike as ECB and Bank of England lean toward more tighteningThree tankers burn in Hormuz as US and Iran contest the straitRussia hits Ukraine's grid and Dnipro bridges as Ukrainian drones hit Russian industryArrests ordered after deadly Izmir steel plant explosionHegseth calls impeachment bid 'sabotage' as House vote nearsAustralia to create AI safety regulator after OpenAI agent breachFrance summons Iran's envoy and weighs sanctions over supermarket fridge cyberattackBrazil tables fossil-fuel exit roadmap at COP31 as Guterres urges actionChina's trade surplus passes $1 trillion as exports keep surgingUS moves tankers from second UK base after Iran threatGaza floods leave tents under water as Israeli strikes go onOil falls below $90 as Hormuz LNG and crude flows recoverSoftBank swings to loss while TSMC shows resilient AI chip demandCanary Islands declare emergency as nearly 6,000 migrants arrive in ten daysIran lifts 2,000 km missile range limit and unveils underground missile cityMerz threatens to block EU budget unless all members share Ukraine fundingFog-driven motorway pile-up kills at least 12 in BulgariaPoland mourns Krakow shooting victims as gunman's interest in Breivik emergesUS, China and Russia struggle to agree format for planned APEC leaders' meetingViolence in northern Nigeria drives tens of thousands into NigerIsrael's new Knesset sworn in without a governmentIndonesian vice president Gibran to resign, presidential office saysRussia-linked espionage arrests in Poland and the UK, including a US soldierCalifornia voters reject one-time billionaire wealth taxGulf states approve military command headquarters in KuwaitParaguay reimburses depositors after Ueno Bank seizureBangladesh tribunal warns Hasina faces execution if she returnsIsraeli forces kill 14-year-old in West Bank as arson attacks continueHungary detains Viktor Orbán's brother in people-smuggling probeGovernments tighten rules on minors' online safety and AI assistantsData-centre backlash grows in the US, Nordic Europe and ThailandAlibaba's chip unit T-Head files confidentially for Hong Kong IPOPope Leo draws an estimated 2.5 million to Mass in Buenos AiresMalaysian court clears Najib to start house arrestPentagon removes WuXi AppTec from list of Chinese military companiesUS skips UN human rights review againLast Russian diesel tanker bound for US turns backSpanish train drivers strike after two deadly crashes as nationwide walkout loomsSaudi liquidity squeeze adds pressure as PIF weighs fundraisingEgypt detains rail staff as inquiry finds safety failures before deadly crash
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Russia's domestic crackdown

Where things stand

Days after Rodina's lawsuit knocked antiwar Yabloko off the Duma ballot, Sverdlovsk's election commission rejected the pro-war party's own candidate list; courts have ordered comedian Sasha Dolgopolov arrested in absentia and activist Larisa Mikhailova held for two months.

The topic tracks how the Russian state controls what can be said and remembered inside the country, from the treatment of prisoners sent to the front to museums and independent radio. On one side stand the authorities and the Defence Ministry, on the other independent outlets such as Verstka and Meduza, journalists and people who report abuses.

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Friday, 14 August 2026Geopolitics

Russia rejects pro-war party's candidates after antiwar Yabloko is barred

The Sverdlovsk region's election commission has rejected the candidate list of the pro-war Rodina party for the regional legislative assembly, days after Rodina's own lawsuit barred the antiwar Yabloko party from the State Duma race. A Moscow court also ordered the in-absentia arrest of comedian Sasha Dolgopolov on charges of rehabilitating Nazism, and a court in Novosibirsk ordered activist Larisa Mikhailova held for two months.

Thursday, 13 August 2026GeopoliticsRussia's Supreme Court bars only antiwar party from Duma election

Russia's Supreme Court bars only antiwar party from Duma election

Russia's Supreme Court barred Yabloko, the only party campaigning for peace with Ukraine, from the State Duma election on Monday, citing copyright and campaign financing, and never ruled on whether calls for peace amount to extremism, Meduza reports. Sources close to the Kremlin told Meduza that the party's registration in late July was an experiment that was dropped once the polling came back.

Wednesday, 12 August 2026GeopoliticsInvestigation documents rape of women recruited from Russian prisons as front-line medics

Investigation documents rape of women recruited from Russian prisons as front-line medics

The independent outlet Verstka reports that Russia's Defence Ministry launched a programme called 'Choice' in 2024, soliciting volunteers at women's prisons for service as front-line medics, and documents rape by commanders as well as criminal cases against the women who reported it. Meduza carried the investigation on Tuesday, alongside reports that Moscow's Gulag museum has been replaced by a state museum about the Nazi genocide of the Soviet people and that Sergey Nedovodin, a founder of the radio station Ekho Peterburga, died at 61 after being beaten outside his Moscow home.