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1 | Securing the TikToker vote. Moscow’s authorities plan to use TikTok to promote Kremlin-backed candidates during the 2021 elections | 2020-12-18T20:52:53 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/18/securing-the-tiktoker-vote | Political strategists working for the Russian authorities are planning to use the video-sharing app TikTok for campaigning in Moscow ahead of the 2021 State Duma elections. The hope is that a presence on the popular app can be used to encourage apolitical young people to vote for Kremlin-backed candidates. The spin doc... |
2 | Russian sapper killed during demining in Nagorno-Karabakh | 2020-12-18T18:51:24 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/18/russian-sapper-killed-during-demining-in-nagorno-karabakh | A Russian sapper was killed in Nagorno-Karabakh while demining roads near the city of Shusha, Interfax reported on Friday, December 18, citing the Russian Defense Ministry.
"An explosive device was detonated. As a result of the explosion, an officer from the International Mine Action Center's demining group was serious... |
3 | Russia’s Health Ministry announces talks with Germany on joint production of Russian coronavirus vaccines | 2020-12-18T18:15:19 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/18/russia-s-health-ministry-announces-talks-with-germany-on-joint-production-of-russian-coronavirus-vaccines | Germany is prepared to cooperate with Russia on the production of Russian vaccines against the coronavirus, German Health Minister Jens Spahn told his Russian counterpart Mikhail Murashko during a phone conversation on Friday, December 18.
"According to the agreement reached, in the near future Russian and German exper... |
4 | Tech giants beware. Russian lawmakers seek significantly harsher fines for Internet companies that fail to comply with censorship orders | 2020-12-18T17:52:10 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/18/tech-giants-beware | The Russian State Duma's state-building and legislation committee has approved amendments to a draft law on fines for Internet companies that fail to comply with orders from Russia's federal censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, Interfax reports. In particular, tech companies that do not restrict access to and/or remove con... |
5 | ‘I want to say thank you to Putin personally’. Moscow lawmaker Yulia Galyamina’s final statement in court as she faces three years behind bars for protesting | 2020-12-18T16:39:00 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/18/i-want-to-say-thank-you-to-putin-personally | On Friday, December 18, Moscow's Tverskoy District Court held deliberations on the case of Moscow City Duma deputy Yulia Galyamina, who is facing for repeatedly violating the "rules on conducting public events." Galyamina, who is also a lecturer at Moscow's Higher School of Economics (HSE), became the subject of a crim... |
6 | Hackers target ‘IStories’ investigative journalists following Putin’s press conference | 2020-12-18T14:12:05 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/18/hackers-target-istories-investigative-journalists-following-putin-s-press-conference | The online accounts of six journalists from the investigative outlet IStories were targeted by hacking attempts after Russian President Vladimir Putin's press conference yesterday, IStories reported on Telegram.
During the early hours of Friday, December 18, someone tried to hack journalist Dmitry Velikovsky's Facebook... |
7 | ‘It’s always a choice’. ‘Bellingcat’ lead investigator Christo Grozev explains how his team unmasked the Russian agents who tried to kill Alexey Navalny | 2020-12-18T14:06:22 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/18/it-s-always-a-choice | On December 14, 2020, Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny published a video on YouTube, titled "I Know Everyone Who Tried to Kill Me," where he named the Federal Security Service agents he says are responsible for poisoning him in Tomsk on August 20. Navalny attributed the discovery to Christo Grozev, Bellingcat's... |
8 | Kremlin spokesman reiterates Putin’s statements about Russian intelligence surveilling Navalny | 2020-12-18T13:45:54 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/18/kremlin-spokesman-reiterates-putin-s-statements-about-russian-intelligence-surveilling-navalny | During a press briefing on Friday, December 18, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on President Vladimir Putin's statements about why the Russian intelligence services "ought to keep an eye" on opposition figure Alexey Navalny.
Peskov told reporters that Russia's intelligence agencies "keep an eye" on anyone who... |
9 | ‘He slandered us’. Journalists respond to Putin’s allegations linking their work to Western intelligence agencies | 2020-12-17T19:13:28 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/17/he-slandered-us | During his annual press conference on December 17, Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on two major journalistic investigations — both of which came out in December and concerned the president directly. The first report, published by the investigative outlet IStories, had to do with the business dealings of Puti... |
10 | Putin’s former son-in-law comments on recent investigation into his business dealings | 2020-12-17T17:25:17 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/17/putin-s-former-son-in-law-comments-on-recent-investigation-into-his-business-dealings | In conversation with RBC, Putin's alleged former son-in-law, billionaire Kirill Shamalov, commented on a recent journalistic investigation alleging that he acquired hundreds of millions of dollars in shares in Russia's largest petrochemical company (Sibur) for just $100.
The conditions for my participation in the progr... |
11 | Warm and fuzzy Russia. The highlights from Putin’s annual press conference, in a nutshell | 2020-12-17T16:52:48 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/17/warm-and-fuzzy-russia | On Thursday, December 17, Russian President Vladimir Putin held his sixteenth annual marathon press conference — albeit via video link. He answered questions from journalists for nearly five hours straight, covering everything from Russia's "Sputnik V" coronavirus vaccine, to the latest allegations about opposition fig... |
12 | Russian lawmakers propose changes to bill on housing for children of Soviet repression victims | 2020-12-17T15:42:57 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/17/russian-lawmakers-propose-changes-to-bill-on-housing-for-children-of-soviet-repression-victims | A group of lawmakers from Russia's State Duma have put forward changes to the existing bill on amending the law "On the rehabilitation of victims of political repression," Vedomosti reported on Thursday, December 17.
The changes were proposed by Galina Khovanskaya from the party A Just Russia, Sergey Shargunov from the... |
13 | German prosecutors question Navalny at the request of the Russian authorities | 2020-12-17T15:03:24 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/17/german-prosecutors-question-navalny-at-the-request-of-the-russian-authorities | On Thursday, December 17, Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny reported that he had spent the day being questioned by German prosecutors at the request of the Russian authorities. Navalny reported this on Twitter, without specifying what he was asked during the interrogation.
Earlier, the Russian Attorney General's... |
14 | Just keeping an eye on him. Putin dismisses poisoning attack allegations, repeating claims about Navalny’s ties to U.S. intelligence | 2020-12-17T14:33:18 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/17/just-keeping-an-eye-on-him | During Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference on Thursday, December 17, a journalist from the online outlet "Life" asked him about the of opposition figure Alexey Navalny. "This week an investigation about Alexey Navalny came out. Why hasn't a criminal case into his poisoning and who poisoned him be... |
15 | Troll wars. Facebook takes down rival networks from Russia and France for attempted interference in African countries | 2020-12-16T17:03:24 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/16/troll-wars | Facebook has removed three networks originating in Russia and France for violating its policy against foreign interference, the company reported on Tuesday, December 15. According to Facebook, these networks were responsible for carrying out "coordinated inauthentic behavior" targeting multiple countries in North Afric... |
16 | The second time around. Latest mortality statistics reveal that the fall coronavirus wave was worse for Russia | 2020-12-16T15:28:54 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/16/the-second-time-around | Last week, the Russian Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat) published new data on mortality in all of the country's regions, revealing that 30 percent more people died in October 2020 than in that same month last year. This data shows that the coronavirus pandemic's second wave in Russia this fall was in fact more seri... |
17 | St. Petersburg deputies call on Russian FSB to investigate operatives implicated in Navalny poisoning | 2020-12-16T14:21:54 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/16/st-petersburg-deputies-call-on-russian-fsb-to-investigate-operatives-implicated-in-navalny-poisoning | Three deputies from St. Petersburg's legislative assembly have sent an appeal to Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov, demanding that his office look into the information outlined in a recent journalistic investigation about the of opposition figure Alexey Navalny.
The statement was signed by St.... |
18 | Russia’s foreign minister dismisses investigation implicating FSB in Navalny poisoning | 2020-12-16T14:01:01 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/16/russia-s-foreign-minister-dismisses-investigation-implicating-fsb-in-navalny-poisoning | Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has dismissed a recent investigative report connecting the of opposition figure Alexey Navalny to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). Lavrov commented on the investigation during a press conference in Zagreb on Wednesday, December 16, which was reported on by Interfax.
All th... |
19 | As if none of it ever happened. The story of Alexander Vasilevich, a Belarusian businessman and gallery owner who became an enemy of the state before Lukashenko visited him in a KGB jail | 2020-12-15T16:33:06 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/15/as-if-none-of-it-ever-happened | It's been four months since mass protests against President Alexander Lukashenko (Alyaksandr Lukashenka) started in Belarus. Police have arrested thousands and judges have convicted hundreds. People across different professions, including journalists and entrepreneurs, now have personal experience with political repres... |
20 | Putin’s cousin establishes another anti-corruption political party | 2020-12-15T16:24:48 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/15/putin-s-cousin-establishes-another-anti-corruption-political-party | Roman Putin, the cousin of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has created a new political party called "Russia Without Corruption," reports RIA Novosti.
The party was founded at a congress held in Moscow on Tuesday, December 15. RIA Novosti's source close to the party says that "Russia Without Corruption" plans to run i... |
21 | ‘This is a real terrorist act’. Navalny’s latest interview with ‘Ekho Moskvy’ about who poisoned him, in brief | 2020-12-15T16:11:09 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/15/this-is-a-real-terrorist-act | Yesterday, Bellingcat and The Insider, in cooperation with Der Spiegel and CNN, released a joint investigation revealing that a secret sub-unit of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) were responsible for poisoning opposition figure in August. While Russian state media and officials have had little to say about the ... |
22 | What investigation? Russian state media remains silent following report linking Navalny’s poisoning to the FSB | 2020-12-15T15:23:25 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/15/what-investigation | A day has passed since Bellingcat and The Insider released a joint investigation, in cooperation with Der Spiegel and CNN, implicating the Russian FSB in the near-lethal poisoning of opposition figure Alexey Navalny in Tomsk this summer. The story has been making headlines around the world ever since it came out — here... |
23 | Russian lawmaker proposes imprisonment for defamation committed online | 2020-12-15T14:47:55 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/15/russian-lawmaker-proposes-imprisonment-for-defamation-committed-online | Russian lawmaker Dmitry Vyatkin, from the ruling party United Russia, has submitted a bill to the State Duma proposing up to two years in prison for those convicted of spreading libel online.
Vyatkin proposed adding this provision to the second part of article 128.1 of Russia's Criminal Code, which outlines liability f... |
24 | ‘They found a foot and a bottle of vodka’. Life in Russia’s southern Kamchatka, where there’s one increasingly hungry bear for every two people | 2020-12-15T14:46:41 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/15/they-found-a-foot-and-a-bottle-of-vodka | The number of wandering bears rivals the human population in Ozernovsky, a town in southern Kamchatka. Meduza correspondent Irina Kravtsova visited the remote area to learn how locals manage to live alongside animals that can turn deadly when driven from their usual food sources, which are rapidly disappearing, thanks ... |
25 | Putin congratulates Biden on winning U.S. presidential election | 2020-12-15T14:22:57 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/15/putin-congratulates-biden-on-winning-u-s-presidential-election | On Tuesday, December 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message to Joe Biden congratulating him on his victory in the 2020 U.S. presidential elections, the Kremlin reported.
In his message, Vladimir Putin wished the President-elect every success and expressed confidence that Russia and the United States, which... |
26 | Minimum 30 percent. The Russian authorities have set a coronavirus vaccination target, but will they have enough doses? | 2020-12-15T13:44:47 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/15/minimum-30-percent | Russia began a large-scale vaccination campaign on Monday, December 7. In Moscow and the Moscow region, the roll out happened two days earlier, on December 5. So far, the results look modest: Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported that 6,000 people had been immunized in the capital as of December 10, whereas the regions... |
27 | The Bosnian War, in photos. ‘Meduza’ marks the 25th anniversary of the end of Europe’s bloodiest interethnic conflict since World War II | 2020-12-14T20:49:22 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/12/14/the-bosnian-war-in-photos | On December 14, 1995, the Dayton Accords were signed in Paris, officially ending the Bosnian War — the bloodiest interethnic conflict in Europe since World War II, which saw about 100,000 people killed between 1992 and 1995. To mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the conflict, Meduza shares photographs from the thr... |
28 | St. Petersburg historian facing 15 years in prison for murdering graduate student girlfriend | 2020-12-14T15:07:05 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/14/st-petersburg-historian-facing-15-years-in-prison-for-murdering-graduate-student-girlfriend | The prosecution has requested 15 years in a maximum-security prison for former St. Petersburg State University professor Oleg Sokolov, who killed his former graduate student Anastasia Yeshchenko in November 2019.
State prosecutors asked that Sokolov be sentenced to 13 years behind bars for Yeshchenko's murder, along wi... |
29 | Trial of ex-police officers accused in Golunov case postponed | 2020-12-14T14:40:19 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/14/trial-of-ex-police-officers-accused-in-golunov-case-postponed | Just minutes after the start of today's hearing in the trial of the former police officers accused of staging Meduza correspondent Ivan Golunov's last summer, the Moscow City Court decided to postpone further consideration of the case until Thursday, December 17.
The hearing was postponed because the court was unable t... |
30 | ‘Bellingcat’ joint investigation implicates FSB in Navalny poisoning | 2020-12-14T14:08:12 | meduza.io | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/14/bellingcat-joint-investigation-implicates-fsb-in-navalny-poisoning | A group of operatives from a secret sub-unit of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) were responsible for the on opposition figure Alexey Navalny in Tomsk this summer, says a joint investigation from Bellingcat and The Insider, in cooperation with Der Spiegel and CNN.
By analyzing call metadata, overlapping flight r... |
31 | Our Top Weekend Reads | 2020-12-19T12:00:34 | foreignpolicy.com | https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/19/our-top-weekend-reads-sweden-coronavirus-progressives-biden-arab-spring/ | Sweden has long enjoyed a sort of wholesome global image: home of Ikea, Pippi Longstocking, and meatballs in cream sauce. But that reputation has taken a beating during the coronavirus pandemic, as the country became a lone proponent of herd immunity and floundered accordingly. Now, the government has instituted some r... |
32 | How the Western Sahara Became the Key to North Africa | 2020-12-19T03:41:12 | foreignpolicy.com | https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/18/how-the-western-sahara-became-the-key-to-north-africa/ | Fighting erupted last month between Morocco and separatists in the disputed Western Sahara, a territory claimed by Morocco. The sparsely populated region is bordered by Algeria to the east, Mauritania to the east and south, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and Morocco to the north.
First, Morocco launched a military ope... |
33 | Why India’s Farmers Won’t Stop Protesting | 2020-12-18T23:25:56 | foreignpolicy.com | https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/18/india-farmers-wont-stop-protesting/ | Since late November, tens of thousands of Indian farmers have marched to New Delhi and blocked the highways leading into the city, protesting against three bills that passed in both houses of India's Parliament in September. The demonstrations have since spread to other parts of the country with farmers blocking roads ... |
34 | Is the Cyberattack Big News—or Just a Footnote In a Year Like No Other? | 2020-12-18T21:56:11 | foreignpolicy.com | https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/18/is-the-cyberattack-big-news-or-just-a-footnote-in-a-year-like-no-other/ | Emma Ashford: It is, and thank goodness you're here. I have a problem. Foreign Policy just published an article by President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor-turned-critic John Bolton—and I agree with him. This has never happened before.
EA: I didn't want to pay to read the memoir. But seriously, Bolton ... |
35 | Trump Leaves Biden Administration a Parting Gift in Currency Wars | 2020-12-18T21:17:26 | foreignpolicy.com | https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/18/trump-leaves-biden-administration-a-parting-gift-in-currency-wars/ | The U.S. Treasury Department's decision this week to label both Vietnam and Switzerland currency manipulators lacked precedent and raised plenty of eyebrows. Labeling even one country a manipulator is a rare and headline-grabbing event. Until now, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump had named only one cou... |
36 | Sweden’s Second Wave Is a Failure of Government—and Guidance | 2020-12-18T21:03:36 | foreignpolicy.com | https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/18/sweden-second-covid-wave-failure-of-government-guidance/ | In late November, the Swedish government finally caved. The country had attracted attention worldwide earlier this year for ignoring calls to implement a lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic's first peak, as the government favored recommendations to hard regulation. But at long last, facing a perilous second wave of c... |
37 | Your Digital Footprint Is Worryingly Easy to Match to Reality | 2020-12-18T20:07:46 | foreignpolicy.com | https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/18/digital-footprint-match-reality-information-online-privacy-protection/ | As a person who helps other people manage their digital footprint, I actually dislike the phrase "manage your digital footprint"—it sounds corporatist, bland, and frankly neurotic.
But it's also pretty serious. Your digital footprint is not just about an embarrassing "that's what she said" tweet you posted that one tim... |
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Dataset Details
~96,000 news articles I collected from the 2nd half of 2019 through 2021, made for my own project.
Articles were cleaned with the readability project in python.
Feautures:
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- (0, 96601)
- Title of article (str)
- 13 words on average, min: 1, max: 46
- Time published (str)
- Collected between 2019 and 2021ish, NOT evenly distributed. There are large gaps of no collection.
- Idk how time zones have been handled, so take the timestamps with grains of salt. I'd say you can trust them within the day.
- Organization (str)
- Below are (org: count)
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- ('www.theepochtimes.com', 9930),
- ('www.nytimes.com', 9823),
- ('rssfeeds.usatoday.com', 9201),
- ('www.businessinsider.com', 7478),
- ('www.nationalreview.com', 4962),
- ('english.sina.com', 4635),
- ('abcnews.go.com', 4568),
- ('www.foxnews.com', 3755),
- ('www.theatlantic.com', 3482),
- ('www.oann.com', 3392),
- ('feeds.foxnews.com', 3307),
- ('foreignpolicy.com', 3234),
- ('www.washingtonpost.com', 2934),
- ('webfeeds.brookings.edu', 1484),
- ('meduza.io', 1223),
- ('markets.businessinsider.com', 886),
- ('businessinsider.com', 1),
- ('projects.fivethirtyeight.com', 1),
- ('www.foxbusiness.com', 1),
- ('fivethirtyeight.com', 1)
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- Full URL as source
- Body (str)
- mean 496 words, min: 2, max: 15272
- Downloads last month
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