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.
Society | 2026-04-10
Antidepressant sales triple in Russia as war stress hardens into physical disease
Russia's mental health crisis is mutating from anxiety and depression into heart disease, rising mortality and a society running out of the resources to cope.
Politics | 2026-04-09
The Kremlin's economic nostalgia trap
Russians want state-controlled prices and domestic production. A Central Bank study shows how deep that belief runs and why experts call it a path to collapse.
Politics | 2026-04-09
Ukraine opens official path to document forced displacement as war damage
Ukraine's damage register now accepts claims for forced displacement -- here's what that means for the millions who fled.
Conflict & Security | 2026-04-08
Finland builds Baltic surveillance network after Russian sabotage
Europe's undersea cables carry 94% of global communications, and they've been left largely unprotected. That's changing.
Society | 2026-04-08
Russia's sports exodus: medals for other countries, threats of jail at home
Hundreds of Russian athletes have left since 2022. Russia is now moving to punish them, even as it lobbies to return to the Olympics.
Politics | 2026-04-07
Inside Russia's push to kill anonymous internet
From the regions to Moscow, internet blackouts are spreading, and 2028 may bring something far worse.
Society | 2026-04-07
Russia's VPN throttling threatens millions of remote jobs
Russia's push to block Telegram is severing the encrypted connections millions of workers rely on, and companies are already telling staff to come back to the office.
Politics | 2026-04-06
Russia's internet crackdown is already live -- four years before its planned deadline
Russia activated a white list internet system years ahead of schedule. Experts say the infrastructure was always ready, but the public was just never told.
Conflict & Security | 2026-04-03
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.
Conflict & Security | 2026-04-03
Smoke and arrows: A viral map distorting the Baltic threat
A map showing Russian attack corridors into the Baltic states went viral, but the graphic was old, the sourcing was fake, and the real threat looks nothing like the arrows.
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.
Justice | 2026-04-02
Russia to jail anyone who questions its version of World War II
Russia is set to imprison anyone who publicly questions its newly coined genocide of the Soviet people.
Conflict & Security | 2026-04-01
Ukraine is stretching the kill zone and Russia can't keep up
Pro-Kremlin military bloggers are openly conceding that Ukrainian drones have disrupted Russian logistics, fractured command systems, and erased months of offensive planning.
Society | 2026-04-01
Bureaucratically blocked: Russia's drone victims are on their own
With Ukrainian drones reaching deeper into Russian territory, victims discover their government offers little beyond plastic sheeting and a court battle.