Russia

Story gist: Portugal’s visa center in Russia stopped accepting applications for 2025. The halt affects Russian applicants seeking Portuguese visas.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets show no coverage, leaving a pro-Western or neutral-global perspective absent. Center outlets like Interfax report factually with a straightforward headline, emphasizing the event without added context. Right-leaning Regions.ru frames it as ‘another country’ restricting Russians, highlighting impacts on citizens and promising explanations, suggesting an anti-foreign bias tone through emphasis on discrimination.

Story gist: Estonia’s parliament rejected a proposed law to close the border with Russia. The Interior Minister stated there is no necessity to implement such a closure.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets provide no coverage, leaving a pro-closure or security-focused perspective absent. Center outlets like DW neutrally report the parliament’s rejection of the border-closure law, emphasizing legislative action. Right-leaning FederalPress frames it as a ‘failed plan,’ highlighting disappointment in anti-Russia measures and implying weakness in Estonia’s stance.

Story gist: Russian stock indices closed in negative territory on the Moscow Exchange. The market approached recent lows during trading sessions.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets provide no coverage, omitting any perspective on economic implications or government policies. Center outlets, like Banki.ru, frame the story factually, emphasizing trading results and index declines without speculation or broader context. Right-leaning outlets also absent, leaving no counter-narrative on external factors or market resilience. This results in a narrow, neutral financial report with limited ideological diversity.

Story gist: Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov was added to Russia’s list of terrorists and extremists. Economist Sergei Guriev was also included in the list.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets like Meduza highlight both Kasyanov and Guriev’s inclusion, emphasizing the ‘Russian’ label to underscore government action against critics. Center outlets like Vedomosti report factually on Kasyanov alone with neutral phrasing. Right-leaning coverage is absent, omitting any perspective that might defend or contextualize the government’s decision.

Story gist: Kazakhstan announced the full resumption of receiving and pumping its oil at the Novorossiysk port in Russia. The statement follows a disruption at the facility.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets provide no coverage, omitting any perspective on the event. Center outlets like Interfax report neutrally on Kazakhstan’s announcement, emphasizing operational resumption without context on causes. Right-leaning sources focus on local recovery efforts post-drone attack, using adversarial language like ‘enemy’ to highlight security threats and ongoing liquidation, downplaying the economic resumption.