Merry Christmas and welcome to Regions Calling, a newsletter by The Moscow Times shedding light on life beyond the Russian capital. For this final newsletter of the year, we asked our special correspondent Leyla Latypova to reflect on her 2025 coverage of the regions and choose one policy, person and place that left the most pronounced impact this year. In Russia’s Regions, Who Shaped History in 2025? There was no shortage of pivotal events in Russia’s regions and ethnic republics this year. Nearly every day in 2025 saw a protest in at least one of the country’s 83 federal subjects, whether
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