For the first time this year, Mediazona and Meduza have updated our overall estimate of Russia’s losses in its war against Ukraine. Based on the Probate Registry, it puts the numbe... Our methodology draws on data from the Probate Registry—a publicly accessible Russian database of inheritance cases—and the recorded names count we maintain together with BBC News Russian and a team of volunteers (now at 217,808 verified names). We d... [5809 chars]