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Long flight delays in Russia doubled in 2025, Ukrainian drone attacks cited...

Photo: Kommersant The number of long flight delays at Russian airports doubled in 2025, with…

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Mission accomplished, dictatorship intact: Russia’s CEC and Myanmar’s enduring junta

The military junta that has ruled over Myanmar since 1962 is once again trying to…

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Society

Heated bricks, shared generators, and candles: How Kyiv survives without power and...

Kyiv residents during a blackout, Jan. 13, 2026 / Andrew Kravchenko / AFP In the…

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Austria, France, and the Netherlands require non-accredited Russian diplomats to notify the...

The Russian Embassy in The Hague. Photo: TASS The foreign ministries of Austria and the…

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Opinion

Posts change, but NABU endures: Why sweeping high-level personnel changes in Kyiv...

© Pavlo Bahmut / Keystone Press Agency / Global Look Press Ukrainian society has long…

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Society

To the MAX: Authoritarian states are developing messaging apps in an effort...

Students in the Russian city of Novorossiysk were recently threatened with being barred from winter…

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U.S. sentences Kyrgyz national who illegally exported American firearms to Russia to...

The United States Department of Justice has announced that on Jan. 22 a federal court…

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Russian attack damages UNESCO-listed Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, inflicting first wartime damage since...

The grounds of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra National Preserve, one of Eastern Europe’s most significant…

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Politics

Wild West of the Middle East: How Palestinians and Bedouins survive on...

With the spotlight of attention focused on the Gaza Strip, the West Bank nevertheless remains…

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Live for today: Trump’s politicization of economic policy poses a threat to...

Economic issues were the main concern Trump voters cited when explaining their choice for president…

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News

Long flight delays in Russia doubled in 2025, Ukrainian drone attacks cited as the main cause

Photo: Kommersant The number of long flight delays at Russian airports doubled in 2025, with …

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Austria, France, and the Netherlands require non-accredited Russian diplomats to notify the authorities of border crossings

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U.S. sentences Kyrgyz national who illegally exported American firearms to Russia to 39 months in prison following The Insider investigation

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Russian attack damages UNESCO-listed Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, inflicting first wartime damage since WWII

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France seizes suspected Russian “shadow fleet” tanker Grinch in the Mediterranean Sea

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Society

Heated bricks, shared generators, and candles: How Kyiv survives without power and heat

Kyiv residents during a blackout, Jan. 13, 2026 / Andrew Kravchenko / AFP In the …

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To the MAX: Authoritarian states are developing messaging apps in an effort to control their populations

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“It’s best to avoid traveling by train”: Women in Russia’s Belgorod Region face violence from soldiers

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Synthetic sweethearts: AI is rewriting the reality of intimacy and desire

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Anti-life: How U.S. abortion bans actually affect mothers and babies

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Politics

Mission accomplished, dictatorship intact: Russia’s CEC and Myanmar’s enduring junta

The military junta that has ruled over Myanmar since 1962 is once again trying to …

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Wild West of the Middle East: How Palestinians and Bedouins survive on the West Bank

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Not so black and white: Trump is battling an imaginary genocide in South Africa

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“A fateful day for the Kingdom”: Denmark is going into full panic mode

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Through the meat grinder: 20 dead per square kilometer and the other Russian military takeaways of 2025

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Opinion

Posts change, but NABU endures: Why sweeping high-level personnel changes in Kyiv point to a stronger Ukrainian state

© Pavlo Bahmut / Keystone Press Agency / Global Look Press Ukrainian society has long …

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Polar disorder: Why Trump wants to seize Greenland and what a U.S. annexation of the island would mean for NATO

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Not on the brink: Why protests and airstrikes alone are unlikely to bring revolution in Iran without a split in the armed forces

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Solidarity with caveats: Western countries support Ukraine but bar their citizens from fighting for it

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Breaking with a toxic partner: Why Trumpism may actually benefit Europe in the long run

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Economics

Live for today: Trump’s politicization of economic policy poses a threat to longer-term stability

Economic issues were the main concern Trump voters cited when explaining their choice for president …

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A quiet revolution: The world’s turn toward green energy is irreversible

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Catch your fish and eat it too: Inside Kamchatka’s poaching empire

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On thinning ice: After almost four years of war, Russia’s central bankers are running out of tricks to keep the economy afloat

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Dressed for disaster. Russian fashion retail collapses despite losing Western competition

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Corruption

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

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

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

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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

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

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Confession

“You must not show that you are afraid”: Tales of captivity in the Kremlin-controlled “People’s Republics”

Even before the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, security forces in the “DNR” …

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“They forced me to cook, clean, and fulfill their sexual whims”: Testimony of a Ukrainian woman enslaved by Russian soldiers

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“This isn’t the Middle Ages, and we aren’t serfs”: Locals in Ukrainian-controlled parts of the Donbas react to Putin’s territorial demands

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“Thou shalt not idolize your motherland”: Russian Orthodox priests on the war in Ukraine and the degradation of their church

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Tracked down, coerced, threatened: How Russia hunts down deserters and forces them back to the front lines in Ukraine

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Antifake

Ukrainian drones mysteriously “attack” Putin’s residence: The chronology of yet another Kremlin lie

On Dec. 29, at 4:28 p.m. Moscow time, an “audio statement” from Sergey Lavrov was …

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FSB tries to spin new fake claiming it foiled British-Ukrainian “intelligence plot” to hijack MiG-31 jet armed with Kinzhal missile

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Russia claims NATO is preparing “major sabotage” at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, but the scenario described is technically impossible

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Kremlin narrative claims Volodymyr Zelensky bought massive ranch in Wyoming that made him one of the “top 10 U.S. landowners”

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From Budapest with lies: Viktor Orbán’s latest false claim on Ukraine

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