Russian-language websites

[ru] Russian-language edition of Wikipedia

international German public radio and television channel

Russian-language television channel

independent bilingual newspaper

Meduza (Russian: Медуза, named after the Greek mythological figure Medusa) is a Russian and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 2014 by a group of former employees of the then-independent Lenta.ru news website. Free mobile applications for iOS, Windows Phone, and Android became the basis of the media.

Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT). It was founded by British citizen journalist and former blogger Eliot Higgins in July 2014.

Ukrainian online newspaper

Russia-focused media outlet

Russian-language television channel

Israeli media network

Lurkmore or Lurkomorye (, a portmanteau of Lukomorye and the English online slang "lurk moar") was an informal Russian-language MediaWiki-powered online encyclopedia, based on the English-wiki website lurkmore.com, focusing on Internet subcultures, folklore, and memes. It was one of the most popular humor and internet meme-related websites of the Russian internet.

Baltic news website

OVD-Info () is an independent Russian human rights media project aimed at combating political persecution. Its main focus is freedom of assembly. OVD-Info is one of Russia’s largest human rights NGOs.

InformNapalm is a volunteer initiative to inform Ukrainian citizens and the foreign public about the Russo-Ukrainian War and the activities of the Russian special services as well as the militants of DPR, LPR, and Novorossiya. The team members are engaged in a wide range of other volunteer activities. Authors publish materials in 30 languages, including Japanese and Chinese.

Culture.pl is a large Polish multilingual project and web portal devoted to Polish culture. It was founded by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in March 2001. The project promotes the work of Polish artists around the world and is a popular information database on all artistic aspects of Polish culture. Originally available in Polish, English and Russian, it is now also available in Ukrainian, Korean, Japanese and Chinese.

Proekt () is an independent Russian media outlet specialising in investigative journalism. In 2021, Proekt was relaunched as Agentstvo (), but restored its original name in 2022, while Agentstvo became a news website.

Gulagu.net () is a Russian anti-corruption, anti-torture, pro-human rights organisation and website.

Russian-language division of the BBC World Service

Palestinian news website

iStories or Important Stories () is an independent Russian website specialising in investigative journalism. The website was founded in 2020 by Russian journalists Roman Anin and Olesya Shmagun. IStories published a number of high-profile investigations. The office of the website is located in Latvia.

inoSMI (, a derivation from "foreign mass media") is an internet media project that monitors and translates articles published in foreign and Western media into Russian, and is part of the state media group Russia Today.

Pikabu () is a social news website from Russia with an emphasis on user-generated content, where users can submit links, images, gifs, and videos which will then be voted by the community. It was founded on August 1, 2009 by Maxim Khryashchev to create a website similar to Reddit.

Librusec () is a library internet portal, the owner of which, Ilja Larin (), lives in Ecuador. Most of the content is in the Russian language, but the collection also has significant material in Ukrainian, Belarusian, English, German, French, Spanish and other languages. According to the rules of the library, Librusec calls itself a pirate library, opposes copyright laws and claims to operate under the laws of Ecuador. Users are asked to refrain from using it if it is illegal in their countries.

electronic database

Left Bank () is a Ukrainian online newspaper and former print publication first published in April 2008 as a Russian-language socio-political weekly. Its founder and owner is the , a research and analytics company. Since January 2011, the newspaper is no longer printed and is solely an online publication. The online version of the newspaper, which is still active, was established in June 2009. From June 2009 to July 2020, the Gorshenin Institute also had a Russian-language version of the site. In May 2012, a Ukrainian-language version of the site appeared at ukr.lb.ua, although this was closed

Strana.ua is a Ukrainian online newspaper launched on 16 February 2016. It was founded by journalist Igor Guzhva, and is one of the most popular Ukrainian online media, being one of the top 5 most visited online newspapers in Ukraine.