❄️ Holiday reading: top Russia stories of 2025
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We hope you’re enjoying the festive season! While things are still relatively calm and quiet, we’ve selected our top three most-read Russia stories from 2025 – and made them free to read.
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Putin’s obsession with Russia’s fertility rate, as well as the growing influence of Orthodox and conservative values in the Kremlin, is likely to lead to anti-abortion legislation.
In 2025, Russia saw an extraordinary event—the suicide of a government minister. We spoke to our high-level sources to gauge their response.
Russia’s unprecedented internet crackdown goes far beyond censorship, threatening access to basic online services and driving a dramatic—and likely permanent—process of de-digitalization.
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