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Help but verify: Europe replaces the U.S. as Ukraine’s anti-corruption safeguard

September 3, 2025

While public discussion remains focused on the negotiations over European security guarantees for Ukraine, the…

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Russia designates UK-based defense think tank RUSI as an “undesirable” organization

September 3, 2025

Photo: RUSI The Russian Prosecutor General has labeled the Royal United Services Institute for Defence…

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Pro-Putin authors of Russia’s new high school history textbook own multimillion-dollar real...

September 2, 2025

A penthouse in Spain registered to MGIMO University rector Anatoly Torkunov’s daughter, Yekaterina Torkunova. Screenshot:…

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Sanctioned Russian “shadow fleet” oil tanker detained in Murmansk over wage debts...

September 1, 2025

The tanker Unity (IMO 9388792) has been sanctioned by the EU, UK, Switzerland and several…

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Major Russian mining company Mechel reports production cuts amid sanctions and central...

September 1, 2025

Photo: Mechel One of Russia’s biggest mining firms, Mechel, has announced it will suspend “unprofitable…

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First successful Russian naval drone attack sinks Ukrainian Navy reconnaissance ship in...

August 31, 2025

Ukraine’s reconnaissance vessel Simferopol seen at a naval parade rehearsal in Odesa, August 2021. Photo:…

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Kremlin bot network Matryoshka spreads first fake video made with Luma AI...

August 31, 2025

The Kremlin bot network known as “Matryoshka” is spreading a fake music video on X…

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Politics

“The enemy will go on trampling our land, and we canʼt fire...

August 31, 2025

Russia has set a grim new record in its campaign against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure. In…

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Drone strike sparks forest fire near Putin’s Black Sea Palace

August 30, 2025

Photo: Wildfire near the village of Krinitsa / social media On the morning of Aug.…

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Pro-war Russian blogger posts image depicting two Ukrainian POWs facing what appears...

August 30, 2025

Russian pro-war journalist Alexander Garmaev published a photo that appears to show two Ukrainian prisoners…

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Russia designates UK-based defense think tank RUSI as an “undesirable” organization

September 3, 2025

Photo: RUSI The Russian Prosecutor General has labeled the Royal United Services Institute for Defence …

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Pro-Putin authors of Russia’s new high school history textbook own multimillion-dollar real estate in Moscow and Spain

September 2, 2025
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Sanctioned Russian “shadow fleet” oil tanker detained in Murmansk over wage debts to crew and “serious” paperwork issues

September 1, 2025
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Major Russian mining company Mechel reports production cuts amid sanctions and central bank anti-inflation measures

September 1, 2025
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First successful Russian naval drone attack sinks Ukrainian Navy reconnaissance ship in Danube River estuary

August 31, 2025
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Society

Praying for rain: Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine suffers an unprecedented water crisis

August 26, 2025

The water supply crisis in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine has reached crisis levels. Officially, water is …

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Tempting the throne: Why the Catholic Church is in no hurry to punish pedophilia in its ranks

August 12, 2025
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The donkeys of war: Pack animals are helping Gaza’s civilians survive a humanitarian catastrophe

August 12, 2025
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Starving children and the information war: What’s really happening in the Gaza Strip

August 11, 2025
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“We’re back to good old text messages”: Russians adjust to widespread mobile internet shutdowns

August 7, 2025
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Politics

“The enemy will go on trampling our land, and we canʼt fire back?”: Ukrainians want peace — but not at the price of territorial concessions

August 31, 2025

Russia has set a grim new record in its campaign against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure. In …

by admin August 31, 2025

A fractured Germany: 100 days into Merz's chancellorship, the country remains in crisis

August 28, 2025
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Let’s not make a deal: Why Putin’s demand to hand over Donbas is doomed to fail

August 19, 2025
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From president to prisoner: How the pro-Kremlin leader of Republika Srpska overplayed the separatism card and lost power

August 15, 2025
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Peace without Putin: How Armenia and Azerbaijan made a deal with Washington’s help

August 15, 2025
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Opinion

Help but verify: Europe replaces the U.S. as Ukraine’s anti-corruption safeguard

September 3, 2025

While public discussion remains focused on the negotiations over European security guarantees for Ukraine, the …

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With neighbors like these: Russia’s deployment of intermediate-range missiles threatens a new arms race

August 26, 2025
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Sound and fury: Trump’s Ukraine negotiation approach has led to nothing

August 26, 2025
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Less than total chaos: Trump’s hectic Russia diplomacy has improved Western unity

August 22, 2025
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Potemkin patriots: Why pro-war art projects keep flopping inside Russia

July 27, 2025
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Economics

Robots and migrants: Research shows no evidence for the claim that immigration drags down local incomes or holds back innovation

August 29, 2025

A global anti-immigration movement is gaining momentum. In the United States, ICE carries out mass …

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Tax and bomb: Russia tightens the squeeze on its citizens to keep financing the war in Ukraine

August 25, 2025
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In the soup: Despite record inflation, the cost of living in Moscow remains comparatively low

August 21, 2025
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Russia's tale of two cities: How war deepened regional divides

August 15, 2025
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Xi’s dilemma: Trump’s threatened tariffs would give China a choice between a Russian recession and a global one

August 10, 2025
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Corruption

Sovereign cyberpunk: Despite sanctions, Western components are still being used to build Russia’s cyberwar machine

January 9, 2025

Russia is experiencing strong growth in the data processing and storage center market, thanks largely …

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The regime's minority stakeholders: Key Putin oligarchs still profiting from trade with Europe, despite sanctions

December 22, 2024
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All is fair in steel and war: Italian equipment used in making military armor continues to be supplied to Russia

December 7, 2024
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Hawks on boats: Russia's ex-president Dmitry Medvedev buys new UK-built yacht and profits from livestock and “patriotic” video games

November 29, 2024
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Bullion bypass: How Russia circumvents sanctions to export billions of dollars worth of gold through Armenia

November 25, 2024
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Confession

“Nobody wants to help the army anymore”: Confessions from Russian pro-war volunteers

August 26, 2025

Since the early days of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army has depended …

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“If a colonel couldn’t do anything, what could I do?”: A Belarusian border guard’s confession

August 25, 2025
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Those who stayed: Stories of Ukrainians who refuse to leave their war-torn towns and villages

August 21, 2025
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“GRU officers do time for drugs, the police for protection rackets”: Inside Russia’s prison colony for crooked cops and spooks

August 8, 2025
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“The president lives in his own reality”: Confessions of police officers and government officials in Russia’s borderlands

July 27, 2025
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Antifake

Fake news from Kremlin media: Zelensky’s entourage launders millions through a NABU probe suspect

August 18, 2025

Last week, Russian state-controlled news outlet TASS reported a sensational story: “According to the Turkish …

by admin August 18, 2025

Kremlin media falsely claim the West has “accepted” Russia’s apparent victory in Ukraine and is preparing for “surrender”

July 11, 2025
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Kremlin spokesman claims the USSR could have defeated Hitler without allied help — but Zhukov, Khrushchev, and even Stalin disagreed

May 7, 2025
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Orbán aide falsely claims Ukraine’s EU entry will cost €2.5 trillion — 12 times the bloc’s annual budget

April 17, 2025
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Russia’s MoD falsely claims Palm Sunday strike on Sumy targeted Ukrainian military command meeting

April 15, 2025
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    Matryoshka bot network poses as The Insider’s Christo Grozev to accuse Germany of planning to start a “revanchist” war

    by admin July 29, 2025
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    A group of Bundeswehr servicemen. Image: Michael Bihlmayer / Chromorange / picture alliance The Kremlin's …

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  • Society

    “More and more people don’t want to speak Russian”: How Ukrainians’ attitudes toward the Russian language changed during the war

    by admin July 29, 2025
    July 29, 2025

    A girl takes part in an April 2019 demonstration in Kyiv in support of the …

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  • News

    Switzerland hosts sanctioned pro-war Russian politicians at global parliamentary speakers’ conference in Geneva

    by admin July 28, 2025
    July 28, 2025

    Photo: Valentina Matviyenko at the Summit of Women Speakers of Parliament / Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) …

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    Performance of pro-Putin conductor Valery Gergiev in Italy canceled following international outcry

    by admin July 27, 2025
    July 27, 2025

    Pro-Putin orchestra conductor Valery Gergiev will not be taking the stage in Italy next week. …

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    Azerbaijan to file international claim against Russia over December 2024 crash of AZAL airliner

    by admin July 27, 2025
    July 27, 2025

    Photo: Azamat Sarsenbayev / Reuters Azerbaijan’s head of state Ilham Aliyev has announced that documents …

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  • Confession

    “The president lives in his own reality”: Confessions of police officers and government officials in Russia’s borderlands

    by admin July 27, 2025
    July 27, 2025

    Life in Russia’s frontline regions looks very different from day-to-day existence in the rest of …

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  • Politics

    “This is the new October 7”: How Israel’s Druze came to the aid of their brethren in Syria

    by admin July 27, 2025
    July 27, 2025

    In mid-July, large-scale clashes erupted in southern Syria between Druze and Bedouin tribes. Units of …

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  • Opinion

    Potemkin patriots: Why pro-war art projects keep flopping inside Russia

    by admin July 27, 2025
    July 27, 2025

    All across Russia, administrative buildings and roadside billboards are decorated with the Latin alphabet’s letter …

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