Technology | 2026-05-07
Kremlin moves to ban VPNs for citizens, spends $4 million on VPNs for itself
Russian regional authorities quietly stockpile VPN services while the Kremlin shuts off the same tools for ordinary citizens.
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Russia's military has a criminal infection
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Russia is turning its students into soldiers -- or exiles
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Russia puts combat veterans on urban patrol duty
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The Kremlin is losing Russians over the internet
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Why foreigners keep coming to Ukraine -- even as bombs fall
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Freeze, expand or grind on: Russia's three-track war strategy
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Poland clamps down on eastern border aviation after Russian drones Poland has imposed sweeping aviation restrictions on its eastern border -- a direct response to Russian drone incursions, missile strikes near its frontier and a growing pattern of hybrid attacks on Polish soil.
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Warsaw is going underground Warsaw is retrofitting metro stations, mobilizing churches and mailing survival handbooks -- Poland's civilian defense program is taking shape, with Ukraine showing the way.
Society | 2026-04-27
Ukrainians are rewriting their cultural calendar
Soviet holidays are collapsing in Ukraine. Traditional ones are surging. The shift is deliberate, and it's been building for years.
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Russia has 1.6 million Ukrainian children. US funded the search
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Parades in poison: The cover-up behind Chernobyl's deadliest days
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The Chernobyl self-settlers: The last residents of a radioactive zone
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The drone war that runs on glass
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Finland wants agents who can think like Russia
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Russia teaches citizens to accept permission-based internet
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EU sets precedent: Russian scholar faces extradition over Crimea excavations
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From Africa to Ukraine: How former Wagner mercenaries joined the fight against the Kremlin
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'It's only going to get worse': Russians brace for deepening economic pain
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Russia's state TV uses children's choir to sell internet censorship as freedom
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Russia's institutional footprint in Poland is crumbling
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Russia's 'Afghan syndrome' is back and deadlier than before
Russia's internet crackdown is already underway. What happens next?
Politics | 2026-04-16
Putin is raiding Russia's oligarchs to fund his war
Putin's closed-door demand for oligarch cash signals a broken compact and a regime desperate enough to make enemies of its last allies.
Politics | 2026-04-09
