Society | 2026-03-17
From Karabash to Hollywood: Russian school videographer wins Oscar for anti-Kremlin film
Two years ago, he was filming school drills in the Urals. Now he has an Oscar.
Society | 2026-03-16
The Kremlin's phone checks are everywhere now
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Displaced Ukrainian children are not waiting for the war to end
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Poland builds Europe's first anti-drone shield
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Battle-tested in Ukraine, drone killers head to the Gulf
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No good deed goes unpunished in Putin's Russia
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Left in the dark: Independent sites fill the gap Russia's military leaves behind
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Russia spends record sums burying its war dead
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Russia's recruits are dying before their first paycheck New reports reveal Russian recruits are killed within days of signing contracts, often because they couldn't afford survival gear the army failed to provide, leaving families with a bureaucratic nightmare.
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Russia's regions are going broke to fund the Kremlin's war Russia's regional budgets closed 2025 with a deficit five times larger than the year before.
Society | 2026-03-05
Russia records one of the world's highest emigration totals
A historic wave of emigration has created a diaspora that Moscow increasingly seeks to monitor, register and control.
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Russia moves to criminalize diaspora silence
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London and Oslo move to lock down NATO's northern flank
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From balloons to bridges, Lithuania fortifies against Russia and Belarus
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The middlemen of mobilization
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With 80,000 missing, Ukrainians abroad turn to DNA for answers
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Ukrainian POW returns home after being declared dead and buried
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Ukraine's information campaign puts faces on Russia's war losses
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Russia turns universities into drone war recruitment hubs
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Russia's slow gains in Ukraine carry a human cost unseen in modern warfare
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US expands footprint in South Caucasus through deals, drones and diplomacy
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For Kyiv's elderly, surviving winter is a full-time job
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Russia gives Putin sole authority to cut off communications nationwide
Who do you trust most to report accurately on events in the former Soviet space?
Conflict & Security | 2026-02-25
Russia moves to block Telegram -- and exposes its own battlefield weakness
The Kremlin's latest internet crackdown reveals how deeply its military relies on the very platform it is trying to control.
Society | 2026-02-23
