Society | 2026-04-13
From front lines to new detention centers, Russia's prison system is changing
Russia's prison population has fallen 70% since 2001. The war in Ukraine, not justice reform, is why.
Politics | 2026-04-09
The Kremlin's economic nostalgia trap
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Ukraine opens official path to document forced displacement as war damage
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Finland builds Baltic surveillance network after Russian sabotage
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Russia's sports exodus: medals for other countries, threats of jail at home
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Russia's VPN throttling threatens millions of remote jobs
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Inside Russia's push to kill anonymous internet
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Russia's internet crackdown is already live -- four years before its planned deadline
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Smoke and arrows: A viral map distorting the Baltic threat A map showing Russian attack corridors into the Baltic states went viral, but the graphic was old, the sourcing was fake, and the real threat looks nothing like the arrows.
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'Narva People's Republic' and the Kremlin's new hybrid test Leaflets in mailboxes. A fake passport template. A flag for a country that doesn't exist. Russia is probing Estonia, and security experts say we've seen this before.
Society | 2026-04-01
Bureaucratically blocked: Russia's drone victims are on their own
With Ukrainian drones reaching deeper into Russian territory, victims discover their government offers little beyond plastic sheeting and a court battle.
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Russia records decade-high corruption amid secrecy surge
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How Kremlin's kids earned 10 billion rubles from the war
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Russia's new military bill alarms former Soviet states
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Kramatorsk: The city that won't break
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Poland opens a legal front against Russia over the Soviet past
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Even at war, Ukraine still offers migrants a shot
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The hybrid war went underground in Belarus
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Russia's bid to protect soldiers' wives may backfire on them
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The mirror network: How Russia rebuilt RT inside Telegram
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Russia opens a new front -- in Siberia's barnyards
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From ban to stockpile: Poland restores mines to its arsenal
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Moldova cuts ties with Moscow-led bloc, charts course for EU
How long can Russian society sustain the war's economic and human costs?
Society | 2026-03-23
Mariupol lives on in Lviv
Displaced residents are rebuilding community, culture and memory far from their occupied city.
Conflict & Security | 2026-03-19
Russia's battlefield robots go dark
Society | 2026-03-18
Crimea's teenagers are done with Russia
Society | 2026-03-16
