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“Shadow fleet” vessels found to have remote control and data deletion software,...

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Yankee, stay home: Brussels is taking over America’s leading role in negotiations...

While Vladimir Putin continues to claim that Russian forces are advancing on the battlefield “in all…

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British far-right activist Tommy Robinson detained under counterterrorism law after returning from...

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EU sanctions ten Russians, including Putin’s spiritual advisor and a TV host...

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Robots in arms: Ukraine’s frontline is becoming a test range for ground...

In April 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky reported the first instance of Ukrainian drones and ground robotic systems…

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The “ironclad friendship”: How Russia lost out to China in the competition...

Last month both Donald Trump (May 13-15) and Vladimir Putin (May 19-20) made highly publicized…

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British forces detain Russian “shadow fleet” vessel in the English Channel for...

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Europe’s black holes: The EU is moving to legalize offshore camps and...

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“Shadow fleet” ships start turning around and changing course after British forces...

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YouTube begins taking down videos advertising Russia’s Shahed drone-building Alabuga Polytech college,...

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“Shadow fleet” vessels found to have remote control and data deletion software, which creates risk of explosion and oil spills, WSJ reports

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British far-right activist Tommy Robinson detained under counterterrorism law after returning from Russia

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EU sanctions ten Russians, including Putin’s spiritual advisor and a TV host featured in an investigation by The Insider

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British forces detain Russian “shadow fleet” vessel in the English Channel for the first time

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“Shadow fleet” ships start turning around and changing course after British forces detain Russian tanker in the English Channel

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Society

Escape from the “Digital GULAG”: Ordinary Russians are finding ways to bypass the Kremlin’s internet restrictions

Russian authorities have temporarily postponed the introduction of fees for VPN traffic, but the campaign to …

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Unholy order: Russia is building a system of religious control in occupied Ukraine

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“No gas, no electricity, no heat. They won’t survive another winter”: Ukraine set to evacuate residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky

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Moral migrants, bitter arrivals: Inside Russia’s “values visa” trap

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The home front: Opponents of domestic violence are facing increased pressure in wartime Russia

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Politics

Robots in arms: Ukraine’s frontline is becoming a test range for ground drones

In April 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky reported the first instance of Ukrainian drones and ground robotic systems …

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Europe’s black holes: The EU is moving to legalize offshore camps and strip migrants of their rights

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The loyalty test: Trump’s purge of moderate Republicans is an electoral gift to the Democrats

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A second round of interference: After Pashinyan’s election victory, Moscow is set to increase its economic pressure on Armenia

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Tents, dirty water, and medicine shortages: Life in the Gaza Strip after the ceasefire

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Opinion

Yankee, stay home: Brussels is taking over America’s leading role in negotiations with the Kremlin

While Vladimir Putin continues to claim that Russian forces are advancing on the battlefield “in all …

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The “ironclad friendship”: How Russia lost out to China in the competition to be Serbia’s key eastern partner

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The battle for Beijing: Who came out on top following visits by Trump and Putin to Xi Jinping?

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The anti-Trump: How conservative Friedrich Merz came to lead Europe’s confrontation with the U.S.

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Giving up “Whig-Torianism”: How Britain will be affected by the end of the two-party system

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Economics

“Anti-colonial” energy sources: Latin America has become one of the drivers of the green transition

The energy crisis triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been a …

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Genie and his master: How Russian authorities manipulate statistics to conceal record-high inequality

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The tale of Yermak: how Zelensky’s former right-hand man ended up under arrest on corruption charges

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Taxes, costly credit, and labor shortages: Why private businesses in Russia are shutting down en masse

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Strait to stagnation: Why not even soaring oil prices can offset the decline of the Russian economy

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Corruption

Cashing in on the crown: How Trump turned the presidency into a personal money machine

Donald Trump is the only billionaire ever to occupy the Oval Office, and since returning …

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

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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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Confession

“We were told we were developing antidotes”: The inner workings of the St. Petersburg lab where Novichok was tested

As The Insider discovered, Russia has been testing chemical warfare agents under the cover of a …

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“I delivered bags of money from Mogilevich to the police chief, and more for Orbán”: Former Budapest gang member László Kovács tells all

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“In Russia, you will atone for your guilt before Putin”: Stories of three Russians deported from the United States

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“Programs about Christ followed by beatings half to death”: Kherson’s ex-mayor Volodymyr Mykolaienko on his years in Russian captivity

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

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Antifake

Russian MFA spokeswoman accuses Latvia of Nazism due to fake ban on speaking Russian in schools

Доступно на русском On April 24, Russian state-owned media outlet RIA Novosti reported a statement made …

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Not what she said: Russian spokeswoman’s claim of EU “energy self-castration” turns out not to be accurate

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

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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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