Society | 2026-07-22
Russia's young are applying their way out
Barred from the streets, a generation of Russians is protesting through admissions offices, and a Western diploma can cost them four years in prison.
Politics | 2026-07-22
Killed in Poland: What one artist's death says about how far Moscow reaches
Robert Kuzovkov mocked Putin from asylum in Poland, turned down police protection, and was shot five times while walking his dog. A suspect is in custody. Whoever ordered it is not.
Society | 2026-07-21
Guns, drones and doves: War reshapes Ukrainian jewelry scene
War-forged Ukraine: from drone-propeller pendants to protective motanka dolls, jewelers are turning four years of invasion into wearable memory.
Conflict & Security | 2026-07-21
Seven years without mom: Russia holds hundreds Ukrainian women captive
Rights advocates say Russia is holding hundreds of Ukrainian women captive, and almost none of them are part of any deal to bring them home.
Conflict & Security | 2026-07-20
A homegrown Patriot line could reshape Ukraine's air defense for good
Ukraine has won the right to build the world's premier interceptor on its own soil, a milestone that could anchor its air defense and deter Russia for years to come.
Conflict & Security | 2026-07-20
Art, maths and killing: Ukraine drone chief's formula to stop Russia
A grain trader turned drone-war mastermind, Ukraine's Madyar now oversees the unit responsible for a third of all confirmed Russian battlefield losses, and he says it's all just numbers.
Conflict & Security | 2026-07-17
Ukraine says Russia is using online romance to recruit killers
Ukrainian investigators say Russia has shifted from recruiting saboteurs to using young women lured through Telegram and dating platforms to target service members.
Society | 2026-07-16
Russia's labor shortage turns overtime into the new normal
Russia's labor shortage is forcing millions into chronic overtime, with experts arguing the war in Ukraine, not demographics alone, is driving the crisis.
Politics | 2026-07-15
Russia to up 'lawfare' to justify possible aggression against West: Latvia
Latvia's intelligence service warns Russia is weaponizing lawfare as legal cover for potential aggression against NATO's Baltic flank.
Society | 2026-07-15
When a pro-war soldier turns on Putin, the Kremlin moves fast
Aleksandr Lunin warned Putin the army could turn on the Kremlin, drew 18 million views, served 11 days and deleted the video, but the grievances that made him briefly famous are still spreading through the ranks.
Politics | 2026-07-14
Can Russia hire its way out of a brain drain?
Moscow is courting foreign scientists and engineers, even as the conditions pushing its own experts out remain firmly in place.
Technology | 2026-07-13
Putin's sovereign AI problem: you can't train a mind you keep blindfolded
The Kremlin promises a homegrown rival to ChatGPT, built on data its own censors keep shrinking.
Politics | 2026-07-10
Russia's occupied territories: no jobs for the people it claims to protect
Russia promised to protect its own in occupied Ukraine -- then locked them out of the jobs, the money and the future.
Conflict & Security | 2026-07-10
On TV, Putin keeps winning a war Russia is losing
While drones burn refineries deep inside Russia and drivers brawl over fuel, Putin went on TV to describe a war he's winning and cities he hasn't taken.
Conflict & Security | 2026-07-09
'We must be ready': Ukrainian troops on guard at the Belarus border
Ukrainian border guards along the Belarus frontier watch the tree line for signs of a repeat 2022-style invasion, while locals in Chernigiv keep their go-bags packed, just in case.
Conflict & Security | 2026-07-08
South Korea, Ukraine hold 'constructive' talks about North Korean POWs
Seoul and Kyiv advanced talks over two North Korean POWs caught between wartime diplomacy and defection.
Politics | 2026-07-08
Fear, not strategy, sends Belarus' Lukashenka to Valdai and Beijing
As his deadline from Kyiv expired, Lukashenka sought Kremlin favor in Valdai and found firmer protection in Beijing instead.
Conflict & Security | 2026-07-07
Inside the FrostyNeighbor cyber campaign hitting Eastern Europe
A decade-old hacking group is escalating its strikes on Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, and AI may make the next wave faster and harder to stop.
Politics | 2026-07-06
Armenia bets on Turkey trade to break free of Russia
Yerevan is reopening a border sealed for three decades, gambling that trade with Turkey and Europe can finally loosen Moscow's hold.
Politics | 2026-07-03
Dry pumps, crippled refineries and a Kremlin cover story
A spreading gasoline shortage is putting the war on ordinary Russians' doorsteps and changing how they feel about it.
Conflict & Security | 2026-07-02
Why Ukrainian drones keep slipping into Moscow
Russia is stacking air-defense systems onto Moscow rooftops, but experts say the capital's vaunted shield is mostly a bluff.
Politics | 2026-07-02
For years Russia fueled Central Asia, but now it wants gas back
Ukrainian drone strikes have left one of the world's top oil exporters lining up at the pump and pulling its neighbors down with it.
Society | 2026-07-01
Russia's fuel crisis deepens as drones hit refineries
Low-flying drones are slipping past Russia's prized defenses, setting refineries ablaze and leaving Moscow residents to learn of attacks from the drones overhead.
Politics | 2026-07-01
Russia's flight map is collapsing under sanctions
Sanctions and Ukrainian drones have gutted Russian civil aviation, stranding passengers, retiring jets and erasing routes by the dozen.