Conflict & Security | 2026-05-12
Russia's Army is running out of capable soldiers
Recruitment is down, losses are up, and the Kremlin is running out of options.
Justice | 2026-05-08
Russia leaves dying Crimean prisoners behind bars
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No tanks at Russia's Victory Day parade for first time since 2007
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Kremlin moves to ban VPNs for citizens, spends $4 million on VPNs for itself
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From Russia's orbit to Europe's doorstep: Armenia makes its move
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Russia's Mali retreat puts its African model in question
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No fleet, no problem: How Ukraine rewrote naval warfare
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Russia's military has a criminal infection
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Russia is turning its students into soldiers -- or exiles Russia has blacklisted at least 19 Western universities and is now ordering campuses to deliver recruits for the front.
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Russia puts combat veterans on urban patrol duty Russia is deploying veterans of the so-called special military operation as street patrols. It is framed as a crime solution, but analysts say it's a warning to the public.
Society | 2026-05-01
The Kremlin is losing Russians over the internet
Conflict & Security | 2026-04-30
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
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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
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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
Russia's internet crackdown is already underway. What happens next?
Conflict & Security | 2026-04-21
From Africa to Ukraine: How former Wagner mercenaries joined the fight against the Kremlin
For years, Russia cultivated the Wagner brand as 'invincible patriots,' only for those same fighters to now change allegiance to Ukraine and take up arms against the Kremlin.
