Society | 2026-04-10
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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Finland builds Baltic surveillance network after Russian sabotage
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Russia's sports exodus: medals for other countries, threats of jail at home
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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 Leaflets in mailboxes. A fake passport template. A flag for a country that doesn't exist. Russia is probing Estonia, and security experts say we've seen this before.
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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.
Justice | 2026-03-31
Russia records decade-high corruption amid secrecy surge
Russia is prosecuting record corruption while making it nearly impossible to track.
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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
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Russia's bid to protect soldiers' wives may backfire on them
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The mirror network: How Russia rebuilt RT inside Telegram
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Russia opens a new front -- in Siberia's barnyards
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From ban to stockpile: Poland restores mines to its arsenal
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Moldova cuts ties with Moscow-led bloc, charts course for EU
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Mariupol lives on in Lviv
How long can Russian society sustain the war's economic and human costs?
Society | 2026-03-20
The Arctic Russia can't keep populated
Moscow touts its Arctic as a strategic cornerstone, but the people who live there keep leaving.
Society | 2026-03-18
Crimea's teenagers are done with Russia
Society | 2026-03-16
The Kremlin's phone checks are everywhere now
Society | 2026-03-12