Society | 2026-04-20
Russia's state TV uses children's choir to sell internet censorship as freedom
Moscow is recycling a Soviet classic: when you can't provide something, convince people they don't want it.
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Russia to mandate psychological counseling for women rejecting motherhood
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Russia's railway giant is selling its assets to stay alive
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Ukraine's state railway is ditching Soviet infrastructure and winning a war
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Russia's enemy list is growing driven by propaganda
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Russia turns its Culture Ministry into an enforcement agency
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From front lines to new detention centers, Russia's prison system is changing
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Russia's psychological breaking point: depression, debt and dashed hopes New Russian Academy of Sciences research reveals a society in psychological freefall, driven not just by war, but by the death of the belief it would ever end.
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Antidepressant sales triple in Russia as war stress hardens into physical disease Russia's mental health crisis is mutating from anxiety and depression into heart disease, rising mortality and a society running out of the resources to cope.
Politics | 2026-04-09
The Kremlin's economic nostalgia trap
Society | 2026-04-08
Russia's sports exodus: medals for other countries, threats of jail at home
Hundreds of Russian athletes have left since 2022. Russia is now moving to punish them, even as it lobbies to return to the Olympics.
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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
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'Narva People's Republic' and the Kremlin's new hybrid test
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Moscow tightens the belt as war budget squeezes Russia's wealthiest city
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Russia to jail anyone who questions its version of World War II
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Ukraine is stretching the kill zone and Russia can't keep up
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Bureaucratically blocked: Russia's drone victims are on their own
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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
How long can Russian society sustain the war's economic and human costs?
Society | 2026-03-30
Kramatorsk: The city that won't break
With the front some 20 kilometers (about 15 miles) away and negotiations underway, Kramatorsk remains the last fortified Ukrainian stronghold in Donetsk Region, and its residents refuse to leave.
Society | 2026-03-23
Mariupol lives on in Lviv
Society | 2026-03-20
The Arctic Russia can't keep populated
Justice | 2026-03-20
Russia made Arctic science a treasonable offense
Society | 2026-03-19
If Russians love Putin, why fine the youth?
Conflict & Security | 2026-03-19