Sunday Digest of Stories From Friendly Outlets

Sunday digest of stories from friendly outlets

🎉 The supportive media outlet "Poluchitsya" turned 4 years old! We congratulate our colleagues and recommend subscribing. Poluchitsya publishes roundups of good political news, inspiring posts, and timely memes.

💜People of Baikal analyzed the stream of appeals to the Irkutsk ombudsman. There were twice as many of them, and 70% are connected to the war. People are looking for those missing in action, trying to get treatment for the wounded, and bring loved ones back from captivity. How is the war changing everyday life, and what problems are people in the regions facing?

💜Russia’s gender pay gap has grown to 30% and has reached its highest level in 18 years, the project If We’re Being Precise writes, citing Rosstat data. In 2025, men earned an average of 637 rubles per hour, women 448.

💜“I’m scared, very scared even.” Glasnaya reported what teachers feel because of the growing number of attacks in Russian schools and whether anyone can protect them.

💜Putin’s daughter has completed the creation of a closed AI infrastructure at Moscow State University. T-invariant looked into why a “unified AI ecosystem” was built at MSU and why most of the university’s scientists, and even MSU’s Scientific Research Computing Center, were left outside it.

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