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This week, China included a drug invented in the Soviet Union, Arbidol, in a draft plan (Chi) for treating coronavirus. The Bell's article on this caused a social media storm, so we decided to explain why Russians are so concerned with Arbidol, and how it

Hello! This week our main story is on why President Vladimir Putin has become fixated on Poland's role in the events leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War. We also look at a new wave of pressure on opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and why th

Romanticism, nostalgia, regret: why are Russians discussing the 1990s?The 1990s are a deeply divisive topic for most Russians: for some it is a reminder of economic disaster, for others it represents opportunity and political freedom. Either way, debates

Hello! This week, our top story is on a fat cat and why PR works differently for companies like Aeroflot. We also look at the comedian beloved by state television who suddenly decided to criticize Putin, the top officials who could be linked to the 2014 d

Hello! This week our top story is about new legislation moving swiftly through the State Duma that could lead to Apple quitting Russia. We also look at how rich Russians are having their Cypriot citizenship revoked, what is driving the stock market's reco

China's Huawei, which lost access to the latest update to the Android operating system as a result of the U.S. ban, may receive some help from Rostelecom and Russian businessman Grigory Berezkin, which together own the developer of the Russia's mobile ope

Китайской Huawei, которая из-за американских запретов потеряла доступ к обновлениям операционной системы Android, могут помочь Ростелеком и российский бизнесмен Григорий Березкин, владеющие разработчиком российской мобильной ОС Аврора, созданной на...

Hello! This week we take a look at the new, 'alternative internet' project being developed by the founders of Telegram and we have the highlights of our interview with the former Russia head of Morgan Stanley (the foreign investment back recently shut dow

Ads for the video game Game of Sultans, in which an all-powerful sultan takes female hostages, forces them to lose weight and asks them discriminatory questions, have captivated Facebook, Instagram and YouTube since mid-September 2018 and have even spawne

Last weekend, Russian internet giant Yandex launched (Rus) a test version of its own social media network, Aura. The key difference with platforms like Facebook is that your newsfeed is not made up of posts by your friends, but by an algorithm's calculati