Society | 2026-05-15
Russia's neglected children: the social cost of war
For the first time in five years, Russia's homeless and neglected child count is rising, and experts say the war in Ukraine is the thread running through it all.
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Kyrgyzstan's de-Russification drive tests its balancing act between Moscow and the West
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Belarus border buildup: threat or theater?
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Russia's Army is running out of capable soldiers
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Ukraine's drone interceptors are now shooting down 80% of Russian Shaheds
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Russia's Supreme Court deleted 20 years of crime data
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Russia leaves dying Crimean prisoners behind bars
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No tanks at Russia's Victory Day parade for first time since 2007 Russia's showpiece military parade will have no military equipment this year -- a reflection of four years of war eating through its arsenal.
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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.
Conflict & Security | 2026-05-05
Russia's military has a criminal infection
Violent convicts recruited to fight in Ukraine brought the gulag's hierarchy with them, and the Russian military can't stop them.
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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
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Warsaw is going underground
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Russia's Black Sea Fleet has nowhere left to run
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Ukraine targets the backbone of Russia's oil industry
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Russians feel they have nothing left to lose amid internet crackdown
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Ukrainians are rewriting their cultural calendar
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Russia has 1.6 million Ukrainian children. US funded the search
Russia's internet crackdown is already underway. What happens next?
Society | 2026-04-24
Parades in poison: The cover-up behind Chernobyl's deadliest days
Forty years after the explosion, newly opened Soviet archives reveal how officials falsified radiation data, staged a May Day parade and silenced doctors.
