Medusa, Russia's largest online media, had set up in Latvia in 2014. It has been reporting from Butcher, the town near Kiev where some of the first and most horrific war crimes took place. Medusa's owner was set up by members of Pussy Riot, a punk band which dedicated itself to abuses, torture or injustice system. They've calculated how many Russians have been mobilized. On the 21st of September, they came up with a figure of 500,000 a man - much higher than what the Ministry of Defense said in official statement.
As part of The Economist’s new series on the remaking of the country's economy, our correspondent looks at the Biden administration’s audacious industrial plans. Russia’s media outlets have been relentlessly squeezed, so many have set up newsrooms in exile; we examine the rise of “offshore journalism”. And reflecting on the life of Gina Lollobrigida, a remarkable, irrepressible, impenitent Italian actress.
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