Conflict & Security | 2026-03-10
Russia's recruits are dying before their first paycheck
New reports reveal Russian recruits are killed within days of signing contracts, often because they couldn't afford survival gear the army failed to provide, leaving families with a bureaucratic nightmare.
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Russia promised to protect Donbas. It hollowed it out instead.
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Russia records one of the world's highest emigration totals
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Russia moves to criminalize diaspora silence
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London and Oslo move to lock down NATO's northern flank
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From balloons to bridges, Lithuania fortifies against Russia and Belarus
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The middlemen of mobilization
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With 80,000 missing, Ukrainians abroad turn to DNA for answers Overseas sampling campaigns offer displaced families a chance to confirm the fate of relatives lost in Russia's war against Ukraine.
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Ukrainian POW returns home after being declared dead and buried A DNA mix-up led to a military funeral, years of mourning and now an investigation.
Politics | 2026-02-26
US expands footprint in South Caucasus through deals, drones and diplomacy
Washington pairs diplomacy with infrastructure, energy and security deals to expand its influence in a region long dominated by Moscow.
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For Kyiv's elderly, surviving winter is a full-time job
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Russia gives Putin sole authority to cut off communications nationwide
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Russia moves to block Telegram -- and exposes its own battlefield weakness
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Energy crisis redraws Kyiv's small-business map
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Four years, half a million dead, and Moscow still calls it victory
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Russia pours billions into chips -- but can't catch up
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Russian bill targets 'wrong' views
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Neutrality isn't funny: Why Russia banned comedian Nurlan Saburov
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Mariupol after the siege: One survivor's journey from ruins to exile
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Russia sets a global internet shutdown anti-record
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From six months to forever: Russia's mobilized troops confront a war without end
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Still enrolled, never met: Student life in wartime Ukraine
Who do you trust most to report accurately on events in the former Soviet space?
Conflict & Security | 2026-02-18
The hackers who tried to freeze Poland
A New Year's Eve cyberattack on Poland's power grid failed. What investigators found afterward alarmed the entire West.
Society | 2026-02-12
Poland powers Kyiv through winter's darkest hours
Society | 2026-02-09
