What will Russia and the world look like in 2038? For Meduza’s 12th anniversary, we asked 12 people to share their hopes and predictions.

Meduza is 12! When we were just starting out in 2014, the world was a very different place — no COVID, no President Trump, no mass exodus of Russians. Russia’s war against Ukraine had already begun, though, and of course there was Putin (who had been in power long before that). What will the world a