Conflict & Security | 2026-04-29
Russia's Black Sea Fleet has nowhere left to run
Ukraine has no navy, yet it has effectively bottled up Russia's Black Sea Fleet in its last remaining port with no way out.
Conflict & Security | 2026-04-29
Warsaw is going underground
Warsaw is retrofitting metro stations, mobilizing churches and mailing survival handbooks -- Poland's civilian defense program is taking shape, with Ukraine showing the way.
Conflict & Security | 2026-04-28
Ukraine targets the backbone of Russia's oil industry
Ukraine has stopped hitting Russia's oil depots. Now it's going after the pipes, pumps, and ports that keep the whole system alive.
Society | 2026-04-28
Russians feel they have nothing left to lose amid internet crackdown
Russia's shift to a state-approved internet has disrupted daily life for millions and may have crossed a line the Kremlin cannot easily walk back.
Society | 2026-04-27
Russia has 1.6 million Ukrainian children. US funded the search
A new $25 million U.S. program aims to locate and recover Ukrainian children deported to Russia, but experts say the real obstacle isn't money.
Society | 2026-04-27
Ukrainians are rewriting their cultural calendar
Soviet holidays are collapsing in Ukraine. Traditional ones are surging. The shift is deliberate, and it's been building for years.
Society | 2026-04-24
The Chernobyl self-settlers: The last residents of a radioactive zone
Four decades after the world's worst nuclear disaster, a group of elderly Ukrainians live, and die, in the exclusion zone, kept alive by a Polish aid team racing against time.
Society | 2026-04-24
Parades in poison: The cover-up behind Chernobyl's deadliest days
Forty years after the explosion, newly opened Soviet archives reveal how officials falsified radiation data, staged a May Day parade and silenced doctors.
Conflict & Security | 2026-04-23
Finland wants agents who can think like Russia
Finland is expanding its intelligence ranks with Russian speakers, sending a deliberate message to Moscow as hybrid threats mount.
Technology | 2026-04-23
The drone war that runs on glass
A Ukrainian strike on Russia's sole fiber optic factory, surging Chinese prices, and a global supply crunch are reshaping how both armies fly their deadliest drones, but only one side prepared for the shortage.
Technology | 2026-04-22
Russia teaches citizens to accept permission-based internet
Russia is blocking the internet and replacing it -- one approved website at a time.
Justice | 2026-04-22
EU sets precedent: Russian scholar faces extradition over Crimea excavations
A Warsaw court ruled that digging up occupied Crimea without a permit isn't science -- it's a crime.
Politics | 2026-04-21
'It's only going to get worse': Russians brace for deepening economic pain
Respondents speak openly of uncertainty and fear as a new Central Bank study reveals widespread pessimism about Russia's economy.
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.
Society | 2026-04-20
Russia's state TV uses children's choir to sell internet censorship as freedom
Moscow is recycling a Soviet classic: when you can't provide something, convince people they don't want it.
Politics | 2026-04-17
Russia's institutional footprint in Poland is crumbling
From a Soviet-era spy compound to a propaganda lecture hall, Moscow's presence in Warsaw is being dismantled piece by piece.
Society | 2026-04-17
Russia's 'Afghan syndrome' is back and deadlier than before
Russia lived through the crime wave that followed the Afghan War. Veterans of the Ukraine war are killing their own citizens at 18 times the national rate.
Politics | 2026-04-16
Putin is raiding Russia's oligarchs to fund his war
Putin's closed-door demand for oligarch cash signals a broken compact and a regime desperate enough to make enemies of its last allies.
Society | 2026-04-16
Russia to mandate psychological counseling for women rejecting motherhood
Russia's new health guidelines direct doctors to refer childless women to psychologists.
Politics | 2026-04-15
Russia's railway giant is selling its assets to stay alive
Russia's state railway monopoly is drowning in debt, selling off landmarks and retooling for China. It is a crisis that lays bare the real cost of the Kremlin's war economy.
Conflict & Security | 2026-04-15
Ukraine's state railway is ditching Soviet infrastructure and winning a war
As Russia isolates its own railway network, Ukraine is rebuilding its under fire and laying new track straight toward Europe.
Politics | 2026-04-14
Russia turns its Culture Ministry into an enforcement agency
Russia gave its culture bureaucrats investigative powers to crack down on shadow screenings -- the same screenings keeping its cinemas financially alive.
Politics | 2026-04-14
Russia's enemy list is growing driven by propaganda
In the fifth year of war, a Levada Center survey maps which nations Russians now view as hostile and how the Kremlin got them there.
Society | 2026-04-13
From front lines to new detention centers, Russia's prison system is changing
Russia's prison population has fallen 70% since 2001. The war in Ukraine, not justice reform, is why.
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.