Meduza
Meduza is an independent Russian-language news outlet founded in 2014 by former Lenta.ru journalists and based in Riga, Latvia. It covers Russian politics and society critically, is generally characterized as liberal and left-of-center, and has been blocked in Russia and designated an 'undesirable organization' by Russian authorities, continuing to publish for readers inside and outside the country.
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Is Meduza left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Meduza is generally regarded as left-leaning in its editorial orientation, according to widely cited media-bias assessments — a stance that shapes which stories this digital-native outlet chooses to pursue. In Russia, Kommersant and Moskovsky Komsomolets are listed as Centrist, while RT and TASS are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Meduza beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
Read Meduza beside another title from Russia and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Digital-native outlets reorder their front pages continuously in response to reader behaviour, so Meduza may look different an hour from now — reload it alongside a print-cycle title and you can see which stories have staying power and which are traffic spikes. Because Meduza is listed as left-leaning, the sharpest contrast is usually a right-leaning title from Russia on the same morning: the facts rarely differ, but which consequence is treated as the story often does.
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