Politics | 2026-04-02
Moscow tightens the belt as war budget squeezes Russia's wealthiest city
Moscow's investment cuts exposed Russia's war economy breaking down. A Middle East oil windfall may delay the reckoning, but analysts say the structural damage is already done.
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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 Poland has found four tunnels under its border with Belarus, and experts say they weren't built without state help.
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Russia's bid to protect soldiers' wives may backfire on them A proposal to ban the firing of servicemembers' spouses could push employers to quietly stop hiring them instead.
Politics | 2026-03-23
Moldova cuts ties with Moscow-led bloc, charts course for EU
The Moldovan government has approved withdrawal from the CIS, calling Russia's wars against Georgia and Ukraine a fatal blow to the bloc's founding principles.
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Mariupol lives on in Lviv
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The Arctic Russia can't keep populated
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Russia made Arctic science a treasonable offense
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If Russians love Putin, why fine the youth?
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Russia's battlefield robots go dark
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Crimea's teenagers are done with Russia
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What Russia's referendum in Crimea actually looked like
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From Karabash to Hollywood: Russian school videographer wins Oscar for anti-Kremlin film
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Ukraine turns its drone nightmare into a global export
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Ukraine's AI drones are coming to Poland
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The Kremlin's phone checks are everywhere now
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Displaced Ukrainian children are not waiting for the war to end
How long can Russian society sustain the war's economic and human costs?
Conflict & Security | 2026-03-13
Poland builds Europe's first anti-drone shield
Poland, which watched Russian drones cross its border for the first time last September, is now deploying SAN-- Europe's first dedicated anti-drone shield -- built to stop the threat economically and at scale.
Society | 2026-03-11
Russia spends record sums burying its war dead
Justice | 2026-03-05
