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  "edition": "Russia",
  "country": "RU",
  "self": "https://urgent.news/api/geo/RU.json",
  "generated": "2026-08-12T21:31:49.175Z",
  "count": 50,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original.",
  "stories": [
    {
      "id": 693560,
      "title": "Poland’s foreign minister just threatened to defund Ukraine’s Starlink lifeline — to settle a score with Elon Musk",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/polands-foreign-minister-just-threatened-to-defund-ukraines-starlink",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T19:23:31.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/12/poland-s-foreign-minister-just-threatened-to-defund-ukraine-s-starlink-lifeline-to-settle-a-score-with-elon-musk"
      },
      "summary": "Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, threatened Elon Musk that Poland would stop paying for the American billionaire’s Starlink satellite service to Ukraine unless Poland is restored to the European communications region.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 693561,
      "title": "Zelensky went to Belgrade for Serbian shells, Politico reports, and restated that Kyiv doesn’t recognize Kosovo’s independence. In Pristina, the ‘Free Ukraine’ banner came down the next day.",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/zelensky-went-to-belgrade-for-serbian-shells-politico-reports-and",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T19:11:36.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/12/zelensky-went-to-belgrade-for-serbian-shells-politico-reports-and-restated-that-kyiv-doesn-t-recognize-kosovo-s-independence-in-pristina-the-free-ukraine-banner-came-down-the-next-day"
      },
      "summary": "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić in Belgrade on August 8. The visit, and Zelensky’s remarks about Kosovo during it, caused an uproar that is still being felt days later, Politico reported on August 12.",
      "outlets": 2,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 693754,
      "title": "Torah dictatorship: How Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties gained their influence – and why they risk losing it",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/torah-dictatorship-how-israels-ultra-orthodox-parties-gained-their",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T18:57:37.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Insider",
        "url": "https://theins.press/en/opinion/marianna-belenkaya/295870"
      },
      "summary": "Amid the unresolved situation in Gaza and the continued presence of Israeli troops in Lebanon and Syria, Israel’s Oct. 27 parliamentary election campaign is already in full swing. Most polls give neither the current coalition nor the opposition the 61 seats needed for a majority, meaning various smaller parties could once again determine the fate of the government — as they have many times in…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 693756,
      "title": "St. Petersburg university lecturer detained over donations to Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/st-petersburg-university-lecturer-detained-over-donations-to-alexei",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T18:43:19.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Insider",
        "url": "https://theins.press/en/news/295981"
      },
      "summary": "Igor Zaitsev, an associate professor at the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP), has been detained over donations to Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), according to a report by the Telegram channel Baza (widely believed to be close to the Russian authorities). Zaitsev, 58, is now the subject of a criminal investigation on charges of “financing terrorism.” The academic’s…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 693757,
      "title": "Russian ships in Black Sea use nets, cages, and World War-era camouflage against Ukrainian drones",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/russian-ships-in-black-sea-use-nets-cages-and-world-war-era",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T18:28:15.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Insider",
        "url": "https://theins.press/en/news/295977"
      },
      "summary": "Russian merchant ships passing through the Black Sea have begun using unusual methods to protect themselves from Ukrainian aerial and naval drones — from nets and metal structures to camouflage paint reminiscent of designs used during World War I and World War II. Tankers with “cope cages” The shipping monitoring service TankerTrackers.com recently reported on the 28-year-old Suezmax tanker…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 686375,
      "title": "Russia’s GDP grew 1.3% in the second quarter of 2026, beating Central Bank and government forecasts",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/russias-gdp-grew-1-3-in-the-second-quarter-of-2026-beating-central",
      "topic": "finance",
      "section": "Finance & Markets",
      "published": "2026-08-12T18:11:27.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/12/russia-s-gdp-grew-1-3-in-the-second-quarter-of-2026-beating-central-bank-and-government-forecasts"
      },
      "summary": "Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 1.3% in the second quarter of 2026 compared with the same period last year, according to preliminary data published by Russia’s official statistics agency, Rosstat, on August 12.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 686565,
      "title": "Anti-migration measures begin to deliver",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/anti-migration-measures-begin-to-deliver",
      "topic": "business",
      "section": "Business",
      "published": "2026-08-12T18:05:05.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Bell",
        "url": "https://en.thebell.io/anti-migration-measures-begin-to-deliver/"
      },
      "summary": "Despite facing a record labor shortage, an economic slowdown and surging inflation, the Russian authorities are continuing to restrict migrant labor.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 686376,
      "title": "Ex-Marine Robert Gilman tried to get out of a Russian prison by volunteering for the invasion of Ukraine. He got out on humanitarian grounds instead — so what does Putin want in return?",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/ex-marine-robert-gilman-tried-to-get-out-of-a-russian-prison-by",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T18:01:11.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/12/ex-marine-robert-gilman-tried-to-get-out-of-a-russian-prison-by-volunteering-for-the-invasion-of-ukraine-he-got-out-on-humanitarian-grounds-instead-so-what-does-putin-want-in-return"
      },
      "summary": "Russia has released Robert Gilman, a 32-year-old American whom a court had sentenced to 10 years in a penal colony. Gilman was detained in Voronezh in January 2022. According to the Russian authorities, he kicked a police officer in the leg after being pulled off a train for causing a drunken disturbance. The court first gave him four and a half years, then raised the term to 10 over claims that…",
      "outlets": 2,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 686549,
      "title": "Swedish court frees Russian tourists detained during camping trip",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/swedish-court-frees-russian-tourists-detained-during-camping-trip",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T17:56:42.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Insider",
        "url": "https://theins.press/en/news/295976"
      },
      "summary": "A migration court in Stockholm has overturned a police decision to detain Russian citizens Semyon and Tatyana, who were recently detained during a tourist trip to Sweden. The court ordered both to be released immediately, according to a report by the Russian Antiwar Committee. The court found no evidence in the case file constituting grounds for suspicion that Semyon and Tatyana had committed any…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 686377,
      "title": "Screenwriter Pavel Tetersky leaves Russia after terrorism accusation, 12-day arrest",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/screenwriter-pavel-tetersky-leaves-russia-after-terrorism-accusation",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T17:31:22.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/12/screenwriter-pavel-tetersky-leaves-russia-after-terrorism-accusation-12-day-arrest"
      },
      "summary": "The writer and screenwriter Pavel Tetersky has left Russia, his lawyer, Oskar Cherdzhiev, said on Telegram on August 12. Mediazona, an independent Russian news outlet, drew attention to the post.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 678880,
      "title": "What disease is forcing Russian officials to slaughter pigs in the Tyumen region? They won’t say, except to describe it as ‘very dangerous.’",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/what-disease-is-forcing-russian-officials-to-slaughter-pigs-in-the",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T16:37:56.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/12/what-disease-is-forcing-russian-officials-to-slaughter-pigs-in-the-tyumen-region-they-won-t-say-except-to-describe-it-as-very-dangerous"
      },
      "summary": "In Russia’s Tyumen region, authorities in several villages of the Golyshmanovsky district have begun seizing pigs from farmers and killing the animals, citing an unidentified disease.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 678881,
      "title": "‘A hostile world’: As fear and mistrust reshape everyday life in wartime Russia, some are still finding ways to build community",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/a-hostile-world-as-fear-and-mistrust-reshape-everyday-life-in-wartime",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T16:04:11.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/12/a-hostile-world-as-fear-and-mistrust-reshape-everyday-life-in-wartime-russia-some-are-still-finding-ways-to-build-community"
      },
      "summary": "Inside Russia, loneliness has become one of the war’s less visible but pervasive consequences. Many people are afraid to interact with others, because even an innocent conversation about peace could cost them their freedom — and so they remain alone with their pain. Others have lost interest in public life, seeing little opportunity to make a difference, and have focused on their families…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 677091,
      "title": "Tyumen Region Imposes Mass Pig Culls Over Mystery Outbreak",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/tyumen-region-imposes-mass-pig-culls-over-mystery-outbreak",
      "topic": "health",
      "section": "Health & Medicine",
      "published": "2026-08-12T15:29:31.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Moscow Times",
        "url": "https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/12/tyumen-region-imposes-mass-pig-culls-over-mystery-outbreak-a93477"
      },
      "summary": "The incident follows a similar livestock culling after a pasteurellosis outbreak in the Novosibirsk region earlier this year.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 677092,
      "title": "Son of Former Senior Official Reportedly Arrested in Moscow Murder Investigation",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/son-of-former-senior-official-reportedly-arrested-in-moscow-murder",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T14:52:22.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Moscow Times",
        "url": "https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/12/son-of-former-senior-official-reportedly-arrested-in-moscow-murder-investigation-a93475"
      },
      "summary": "Alexander Khotin was detained Tuesday, west of Moscow, where they allegedly found a blood-stained knife inside a bathroom, according to RBC.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 669831,
      "title": "St. Petersburg Philosophy Professor Detained Over $40 ‘Extremist’ Navalny Donations",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/st-petersburg-philosophy-professor-detained-over-40-extremist-navalny",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T14:05:58.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Moscow Times",
        "url": "https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/12/st-petersburg-philosophy-professor-detained-over-40-extremist-navalny-donations-a93474"
      },
      "summary": "“I personally supported Alexei Navalny,” Zaytsev told the officers on camera.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 669832,
      "title": "Russian Combat Drone Forum Postponed Over Fears of Ukrainian Attack",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/russian-combat-drone-forum-postponed-over-fears-of-ukrainian-attack",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T14:05:17.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Moscow Times",
        "url": "https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/12/russian-combat-drone-forum-postponed-over-fears-of-ukrainian-attack-a93476"
      },
      "summary": "Organizers said the Dronnitsa event would require diverting air defenses and security personnel from other locations.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 671492,
      "title": "Russian businesses boosted drone defense purchases sevenfold",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/russian-businesses-boosted-drone-defense-purchases-sevenfold",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T13:32:28.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/12/russian-businesses-boosted-drone-defense-purchases-sevenfold"
      },
      "summary": "Demand among Russian commercial companies for drone defense equipment jumped 6.6-fold in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year, reaching 441.3 million rubles, the Russian business daily Vedomosti reported, citing analysts from Tenderplan, a tender-tracking platform.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 669833,
      "title": "Ad Spending on Wildberries Nosedives After Ukrainian Drone Attacks, Kommersant Reports",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/ad-spending-on-wildberries-nosedives-after-ukrainian-drone-attacks",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T13:23:00.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Moscow Times",
        "url": "https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/12/ad-spending-on-wildberries-nosedives-after-ukrainian-drone-attacks-kommersant-reports-a93472"
      },
      "summary": "A source told Kommersant that many advertisers had either frozen their promotional budgets or sharply cut back across major retail categories.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 671493,
      "title": "Russia’s fuel crisis is back, with queues and gasoline rationing returning across the country",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/russias-fuel-crisis-is-back-with-queues-and-gasoline-rationing",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T13:21:03.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/12/russia-s-fuel-crisis-is-back-with-queues-and-gasoline-rationing-returning-across-the-country"
      },
      "summary": "In early August, judging by reports from the regions, a new wave of the fuel crisis hit Russia following Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries. Residents of various regions, from the south to the Far East, report lines at gas stations. Limits on how much fuel a person can buy at a time have returned in Orenburg Region and Sochi. The Sochi city administration also asked residents and tourists not to…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 664083,
      "title": "An endangered eagle in Russia survived a gunshot. It didn’t survive the 50 days officials took to authorize its treatment.",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/an-endangered-eagle-in-russia-survived-a-gunshot-it-didnt-survive-the",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T12:25:54.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/12/an-endangered-eagle-in-russia-survived-a-gunshot-it-didn-t-survive-the-50-days-officials-took-to-authorize-its-treatment"
      },
      "summary": "At the Karelia Zoo, a white-tailed eagle listed in Russia’s Red Book of endangered species has died, months after it was found in June with a gunshot wound near Smolensk. Wildlife rescuers said obtaining the documents needed from authorities to treat the bird took 50 days. A post on the zoo’s social media on August 9 said:",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 664286,
      "title": "U.S. sells two “shadow fleet” tankers seized in January for scrap",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/u-s-sells-two-shadow-fleet-tankers-seized-in-january-for-scrap",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T11:30:12.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Insider",
        "url": "https://theins.press/en/news/295948"
      },
      "summary": "The U.S. government has sold two sanctioned oil tankers seized by American forces for scrap, according to a report by the industry publication Lloyd’s List . The Era (IMO: 9230880) and Lileo (IMO: 9256860) were bought in July by the Dubai-based company Global Marketing Systems (GMS). The value of the deal was not disclosed. According to Lloyd’s List , both vessels are heading to Alang, India, for…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 656915,
      "title": "U.S. court orders jail, deportation for captain of Russian “shadow fleet” tanker Marinera",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/u-s-court-orders-jail-deportation-for-captain-of-russian-shadow-fleet",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T11:27:56.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Insider",
        "url": "https://theins.press/en/news/295947"
      },
      "summary": "A U.S. federal court sentenced the captain of the shadow fleet tanker Marinera — formerly known as the Bella 1 (IMO: 9230880) — to 10 months in prison, to be followed by deportation, The Maritime Executive reported on Aug. 10. The captain, Avtandil Kalandadze, a 47-year-old Georgian citizen, pleaded guilty in June to one count of refusing to “heave to,” a maritime term meaning to stop or slow a…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 662366,
      "title": "Orenburg Region Imposes Fuel Rationing After Ukrainian Refinery Attack",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/orenburg-region-imposes-fuel-rationing-after-ukrainian-refinery-attack",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T11:11:21.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Moscow Times",
        "url": "https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/12/orenburg-region-imposes-fuel-rationing-after-ukrainian-refinery-attack-a93468"
      },
      "summary": "Orenburg is the 16th reported region to face renewed fuel disruptions following a brief period of stabilization in late July.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 656711,
      "title": "Putin threatens to seize European ships wherever Russia ‘deems necessary’",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/putin-threatens-to-seize-european-ships-wherever-russia-deems",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T10:06:00.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/12/putin-threatens-to-seize-european-ships-wherever-russia-deems-necessary"
      },
      "summary": "Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would respond in kind to the seizure of Russian vessels by European Union countries, speaking during a visit to Pacific Fleet exercises in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 655183,
      "title": "Russia Forced to Import Gasoline From India Amid Domestic Shortages",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/russia-forced-to-import-gasoline-from-india-amid-domestic-shortages",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T09:55:49.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Moscow Times",
        "url": "https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/12/russia-forced-to-import-gasoline-from-india-amid-domestic-shortages-a93466"
      },
      "summary": "Moscow previously relied primarily on fuel imports from neighboring Belarus and Kazakhstan in response to Ukraine’s drone campaign.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 649620,
      "title": "Yandex Pay removed from App Store",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/yandex-pay-removed-from-app-store",
      "topic": "tech",
      "section": "Tech",
      "published": "2026-08-12T09:06:58.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/12/yandex-pay-removed-from-app-store"
      },
      "summary": "Yandex Pay has disappeared from the App Store, the company announced.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 649621,
      "title": "Amid fuel shortages, Russia starts receiving gasoline from India",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/amid-fuel-shortages-russia-starts-receiving-gasoline-from-india",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T08:51:24.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/12/amid-fuel-shortages-russia-starts-receiving-gasoline-from-india"
      },
      "summary": "Russia has received its first shipment of gasoline from India, the Bloomberg news agency reported, citing data from the Kpler service.",
      "outlets": 2,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 647973,
      "title": "Apple Removes Yandex’s Payment Service App",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/apple-removes-yandexs-payment-service-app",
      "topic": "tech",
      "section": "Tech",
      "published": "2026-08-12T08:31:17.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Moscow Times",
        "url": "https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/12/apple-removes-yandexs-payment-service-app-a93464"
      },
      "summary": "Apple has not publicly commented on the removal, though it has delisted apps linked to sanctioned Russian entities in recent months.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 649622,
      "title": "Russian advertisers cut ad spending on Wildberries after Ukraine’s strikes on warehouses, Kommersant reports",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/russian-advertisers-cut-ad-spending-on-wildberries-after-ukraines",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T08:22:22.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/12/russian-advertisers-cut-ad-spending-on-wildberries-after-ukraine-s-strikes-on-warehouses-kommersant-reports"
      },
      "summary": "Advertising activity on Wildberries has “noticeably declined” following Ukrainian drone attacks on the marketplace’s warehouses, sources at major advertising agencies told the Russian business daily Kommersant.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 649623,
      "title": "Ukrainian drones attack southern Russia. 8-year-old child killed, homes and businesses damaged.",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/ukrainian-drones-attack-southern-russia-8-year-old-child-killed-homes",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T08:14:53.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/12/ukrainian-drones-attack-southern-russia-8-year-old-child-killed-homes-and-businesses-damaged"
      },
      "summary": "Ukrainian drones attacked Russia’s Krasnodar Krai in the early hours of August 12, with “several hundred” of them targeting Novorossiysk, Anapa, Gelendzhik, and the Temryuk District, according to Governor Veniamin Kondratyev.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 647974,
      "title": "Drones Kill One, Reportedly Halt Work at Novorossiysk Grain Terminal",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/drones-kill-one-reportedly-halt-work-at-novorossiysk-grain-terminal",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-12T08:13:06.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Moscow Times",
        "url": "https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/12/drones-kill-one-reportedly-halt-work-at-novorossiysk-grain-terminal-a93465"
      },
      "summary": "One of Novorossiysk's largest grain terminals halted work on Wednesday, industry sources told Reuters.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 616212,
      "title": "Russia frees seriously ill former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman without prisoner swap",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/russia-frees-seriously-ill-former-u-s-marine-robert-gilman-without",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T23:45:12.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Insider",
        "url": "https://theins.press/en/news/295932"
      },
      "summary": "Russia has released 32-year-old U.S. citizen and former Marine Robert Gilman, who had been imprisoned since January 2022. Vladimir Putin approved Gilman’s pardon “based on humanitarian reasons,” Reuters reported on Aug. 12, citing U.S. officials. The Russian authorities had not publicly announced the pardon at the time Reuters published its report. U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed Robert…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 602388,
      "title": "‘We’ve seen this somewhere in history before, haven’t we?’ Inside Russia’s plan to resettle 114,000 of its people in occupied Ukraine.",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/weve-seen-this-somewhere-in-history-before-havent-we-inside-russias",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T21:30:46.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/12/we-ve-seen-this-somewhere-in-history-before-haven-t-we-inside-russia-s-plan-to-resettle-114-000-of-its-people-in-occupied-ukraine"
      },
      "summary": "Over the next 20 years, Russian authorities plan to resettle nearly 114,000 Russians in the occupied Ukrainian territories. Despite the grim circumstances, some people really are moving there. The independent journalists’ cooperative Bereg took Melitopol as its example — a city in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region that Russian troops entered as early as February 25, 2022 — to understand what kind of…",
      "outlets": 2,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 602389,
      "title": "Swedish court frees Russian couple, rules citizenship and language alone aren’t grounds for detention",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/swedish-court-frees-russian-couple-rules-citizenship-and-language",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T21:02:44.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/12/swedish-court-frees-russian-couple-rules-citizenship-and-language-alone-aren-t-grounds-for-detention"
      },
      "summary": "A Stockholm migration court released a married Russian couple from custody after they were detained while on vacation in Sweden, the human rights organization Kovcheg reported.",
      "outlets": 2,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 602390,
      "title": "Russia is recruiting women out of prisons to serve as front-line medics. A new investigation documents rape by commanders and criminal cases against the women who report it.",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/russia-is-recruiting-women-out-of-prisons-to-serve-as-front-line",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T20:43:42.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/11/russia-is-recruiting-women-out-of-prisons-to-serve-as-front-line-medics-a-new-investigation-documents-rape-by-commanders-and-criminal-cases-against-the-women-who-report-it"
      },
      "summary": "In 2024, Russia’s Defense Ministry launched an experiment called “Choice,” according to a new investigation by the independent Russian news outlet Verstka. The military solicited volunteers at women’s penal colonies in several regions and assigned them to tactical medicine units to treat the wounded near the front.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 595123,
      "title": "How does the man behind Russia’s most soothing cartoon dog end up with an 18+ horror hit? Leonid Shmelkov’s ‘Restlessness’ strands two travelers in a roadside hotel they can’t escape.",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/how-does-the-man-behind-russias-most-soothing-cartoon-dog-end-up-with",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T19:44:02.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/11/how-does-the-man-behind-russia-s-most-soothing-cartoon-dog-end-up-with-an-18-horror-hit-leonid-shmelkov-s-restlessness-strands-two-travelers-in-a-roadside-hotel-they-can-t-escape"
      },
      "summary": "Nepokoy (“Restlessness”), a feature-length art-house animation for adults, is now playing in Russian theaters. That in itself is news: 18+ animation is a real rarity not only in Russia but worldwide. Nepokoy has already become a phenomenon: it’s the highest-grossing Russian animated film for adults, the living legend Yuri Norstein has praised it, and its heroine has been turned into a Dymkovo…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 595124,
      "title": "Hundreds of teenagers waited hours outside Russia’s Supreme Court to witness the only antiwar party lose its place on the ballot. Then a police officer raised a megaphone to talk about draft offices.",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/hundreds-of-teenagers-waited-hours-outside-russias-supreme-court-to",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T18:56:43.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/11/hundreds-of-teenagers-waited-hours-outside-russia-s-supreme-court-to-witness-the-only-antiwar-party-lose-its-place-on-the-ballot-then-a-police-officer-raised-a-megaphone-to-talk-about-draft-offices"
      },
      "summary": "All day on August 10, Russia’s Supreme Court heard a lawsuit seeking to revoke the Yabloko (“Apple”) party’s registration for the State Duma elections. Hundreds of people stood outside the courthouse on Povarskaya Street the entire time, supporters of the only antiwar party that could theoretically participate in the vote. Most were Muscovites under 30, many of them teenagers. For many of them,…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 595125,
      "title": "Sergey Nedovodin, St. Petersburg radio founder, dies at 61 after being beaten outside his Moscow home",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/sergey-nedovodin-st-petersburg-radio-founder-dies-at-61-after-being",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T18:17:36.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/11/sergey-nedovodin-st-petersburg-radio-founder-dies-at-61-after-being-beaten-outside-his-moscow-home"
      },
      "summary": "Sergey Nedovodin, a founder and former executive director of the radio station Ekho Peterburga, has died at 61, the station’s Telegram channel reported.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 595126,
      "title": "The son of ‘Orthodox oligarch’ Igor Altushkin (who funds Russian churches and a battalion in Ukraine) crashed the family Lamborghini into a house in Yekaterinburg, injuring a combat veteran",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/the-son-of-orthodox-oligarch-igor-altushkin-who-funds-russian",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T18:16:49.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/11/the-son-of-orthodox-oligarch-igor-altushkin-who-funds-russian-churches-and-a-battalion-in-ukraine-crashed-the-family-lamborghini-into-a-house-in-yekaterinburg-injuring-a-combat-veteran"
      },
      "summary": "A purple Lamborghini crashed into a house at 1 Otradnaya Street in Yekaterinburg on the evening of August 11, according to news outlet E1.ru and the Telegram channel “Baza,” which has ties to Russia’s security services.",
      "outlets": 2,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 587814,
      "title": "Putin’s motorcade stopped in Novosibirsk for a ‘spontaneous’ crowd of children. They had been waiting more than two hours — by a gas station with no gas.",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/putins-motorcade-stopped-in-novosibirsk-for-a-spontaneous-crowd-of",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T17:51:12.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/11/putin-s-motorcade-stopped-in-novosibirsk-for-a-spontaneous-crowd-of-children-they-had-been-waiting-more-than-two-hours-by-a-gas-station-with-no-gas"
      },
      "summary": "Putin stopped his motorcade during a visit to Novosibirsk and got out to greet a crowd of local residents who had been waiting for him along the road. Eyewitness video shows the motorcade halted near an empty gas station where the price board had been switched off.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 587815,
      "title": "Moscow’s Gulag museum won a Council of Europe prize for its honesty about Soviet terror. The state has now replaced it with a museum about the genocide of the Soviet people by the Nazis.",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/moscows-gulag-museum-won-a-council-of-europe-prize-for-its-honesty",
      "topic": "culture",
      "section": "Culture",
      "published": "2026-08-11T17:29:29.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/11/moscow-s-gulag-museum-won-a-council-of-europe-prize-for-its-honesty-about-soviet-terror-the-state-has-now-replaced-it-with-a-museum-about-the-genocide-of-the-soviet-people-by-the-nazis"
      },
      "summary": "In late 2024, Moscow’s Museum of the History of the Gulag was temporarily closed over “violations of fire safety requirements.” Even then, it was clear that this state institution had little chance of a future in a Russia at war. Still, the museum kept operating behind closed doors. What many had feared came to pass in February 2026, when officials announced that a new Museum of Memory would open…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 587816,
      "title": "Moscow police beat 15-year-old after AI facial recognition system misidentifies him as drug suspect",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/moscow-police-beat-15-year-old-after-ai-facial-recognition-system",
      "topic": "ai",
      "section": "AI",
      "published": "2026-08-11T17:19:49.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/11/moscow-police-beat-15-year-old-after-ai-facial-recognition-system-misidentifies-him-as-drug-suspect"
      },
      "summary": "Moscow police beat a schoolboy after an AI-powered facial recognition system mistakenly flagged him as a criminal suspect, journalist Ksenia Sobchak reported.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 580382,
      "title": "Officials in southern Russian city urge residents to avoid driving amid fuel shortage",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/officials-in-southern-russian-city-urge-residents-to-avoid-driving",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T15:47:51.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/11/officials-in-southern-russian-city-urge-residents-to-avoid-driving-amid-fuel-shortage"
      },
      "summary": "Sochi authorities have urged residents and tourists to avoid traveling by personal car amid a fuel shortage, saying the measure would help “reduce the burden on gas stations and speed up a return to normal operations,” the city administration stated.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 580383,
      "title": "Even the AI assistant inside Russia’s state-backed Max messenger tells users not to trust the app",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/even-the-ai-assistant-inside-russias-state-backed-max-messenger-tells",
      "topic": "ai",
      "section": "AI",
      "published": "2026-08-11T15:39:30.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/11/even-the-ai-assistant-inside-russia-s-state-backed-max-messenger-tells-users-not-to-trust-the-app"
      },
      "summary": "Alisa, the AI assistant built into the Max messenger, has been telling users in chat conversations to install other apps instead — Telegram, Signal, or WhatsApp. The independent Russian news outlet Verstka noticed the pattern.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 580567,
      "title": "South African prosecutors say Russia funded and trained an influencer to carry out terror attacks in Europe",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/south-african-prosecutors-say-russia-funded-and-trained-an-influencer",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T15:08:14.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Insider",
        "url": "https://theins.press/en/news/295919"
      },
      "summary": "South African prosecutors allege Russia financed an attempt by influencer and “anti-colonial activist” Kémi Séba to flee the country, according to a report by Bloomberg . Séba, whose real name is Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi, is wanted by Benin in connection with an attempted coup in that country in December. Benin has filed an extradition request with South Africa. According to court…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 580349,
      "title": "Soviet Dissidents Understood What Russia’s Exiled Opposition Has Forgotten",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/soviet-dissidents-understood-what-russias-exiled-opposition-has",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T15:08:12.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Moscow Times - Opinion",
        "url": "https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/11/soviet-dissidents-understood-what-russias-exiled-opposition-has-forgotten-a93458"
      },
      "summary": "Russia's opposition appear uncomfortable with what defeating Russia and supporting Ukraine would mean. Their Soviet predecessors were more clear-eyed.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 578762,
      "title": "Russian Wheat Exports Brace for Decade Low in August Amid Black Sea Attacks",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/russian-wheat-exports-brace-for-decade-low-in-august-amid-black-sea",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T14:59:38.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Moscow Times",
        "url": "https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/11/russian-wheat-exports-brace-for-decade-low-in-august-amid-black-sea-attacks-a93462"
      },
      "summary": "Russia and Ukraine have been attacking each other’s agricultural export facilities and commercial vessels in the Black Sea in recent weeks, driving wheat prices higher on global markets.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 573185,
      "title": "Hawks, isolationists, and real estate developers: Inside the factions battling to shape U.S. foreign policy",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/hawks-isolationists-and-real-estate-developers-inside-the-factions",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T14:38:01.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Insider",
        "url": "https://theins.press/en/politics/295816"
      },
      "summary": "At first glance, Donald Trump’s foreign policy appears to be a monolithic embodiment of the “America First” slogan. In reality, however, behind the MAGA façade lies a fierce bureaucratic struggle between several competing factions, each with its own vision of how the United States should project its power throughout the world. Analysts at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), for…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 572985,
      "title": "What really happens after Ukraine strikes a Russian oil refinery? Meduza analyzed unique satellite data to assess the damage.",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/what-really-happens-after-ukraine-strikes-a-russian-oil-refinery",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T14:18:05.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "Meduza (English)",
        "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/11/what-really-happens-after-ukraine-strikes-a-russian-oil-refinery-meduza-analyzed-unique-satellite-data-to-assess-the-damage"
      },
      "summary": "Ukraine continues to attack Russian refineries. Sometimes drone strikes don’t have significant consequences; other times, production has to be halted for months. It’s hard to assess the campaign’s overall effectiveness: authorities don’t disclose information about the condition of refineries, and one can only rely on indirect data. The most important of these are exchange trading in petroleum…",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    },
    {
      "id": 578763,
      "title": "Russia Says Syria Base Deal Will Boost Ties, Source Says Some Russian Forces Will Stay",
      "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/russia-says-syria-base-deal-will-boost-ties-source-says-some-russian-578763",
      "topic": "world",
      "section": "World",
      "published": "2026-08-11T14:11:00.000Z",
      "source": {
        "name": "The Moscow Times",
        "url": "https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/11/russia-says-syria-base-deal-will-boost-ties-source-says-some-russian-forces-will-stay-a93444"
      },
      "summary": "The naval facility and air base have long been Moscow's principal military footholds in the Mediterranean and Middle East.",
      "outlets": 1,
      "illustration": null,
      "original_language": null,
      "ai_generated": true
    }
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