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Putin rejects calls to unblock glucose-monitoring apps during mobile internet shutdowns, claims...

Vladimir Putin has rejected calls to allow foreign glucose-monitoring applications to operate during regional mobile…

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Attacks force Russia’s “shadow fleet” tankers to reroute along Turkey’s Black Sea...

Tankers belonging to Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” have changed their routes when transiting the Black…

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Ukraine says it attacked a Russian “shadow fleet” tanker in the Mediterranean...

For the first time, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has attacked a tanker belonging to Russia’s…

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Politics

Not-so-useful idiots: How the International Russophile Movement consolidated the Kremlin’s European influence...

On Dec. 15, the European Union imposed sanctions on the International Russophile Movement, or IRM.…

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“Kazakh and Western companies drove themselves into a trap”: How Ukrainian drone...

A series of Ukrainian drone strikes on infrastructure belonging to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, or…

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Commander and founder of recently disbanded Russian military unit Espanola, Stanislav Orlov,...

Stanislav Orlov, the commander and founder of the Russian military unit known as Espanola, has…

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EU adds 41 more oil tankers from Russia’s “shadow fleet” to sanctions...

The EU Council has imposed sanctions on 41 additional vessels from Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet.”…

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Opinion

Not worth the paper it’s written on: Why any “land for peace”...

Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan for Ukraine violates international law and undermines the core principles…

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Kenya repatriates 18 citizens recruited by Russia’s Ministry of Defense, shuts down...

Photo: The Standard Kenyan authorities have secured the return of 18 citizens who were recruited…

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Confession

“They forced me to cook, clean, and fulfill their sexual whims”: Testimony...

At the end of October 2025, the international tribunal in The Hague heard testimony from…

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Putin rejects calls to unblock glucose-monitoring apps during mobile internet shutdowns, claims foreign software aids Ukrainian targeting

Vladimir Putin has rejected calls to allow foreign glucose-monitoring applications to operate during regional mobile …

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Attacks force Russia’s “shadow fleet” tankers to reroute along Turkey’s Black Sea coast

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Ukraine says it attacked a Russian “shadow fleet” tanker in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time

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“Kazakh and Western companies drove themselves into a trap”: How Ukrainian drone strikes are reshaping Kazakhstan’s oil exports

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Commander and founder of recently disbanded Russian military unit Espanola, Stanislav Orlov, confirmed dead

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Society

Wildfires, floods, and drinking water shortages: U.S. boycott disrupts global plans to combat climate change

The United Nations climate conference, held in Brazil last month, deemed global efforts to tackle …

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Unequal footing: Israel is trying to get ultra-Orthodox Jews to serve in the army, just like everyone else

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The cost of cuts: Western reductions in foreign aid are creating a worldwide crisis in healthcare

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Luxury rubble: Real estate prices in Russian-occupied Donbas skyrocket despite widespread destruction, shelling, and water shortages

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Virusocracy: How anti-vax became a political platform

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Politics

Not-so-useful idiots: How the International Russophile Movement consolidated the Kremlin’s European influence networks

On Dec. 15, the European Union imposed sanctions on the International Russophile Movement, or IRM. …

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The price of belonging: How Europe’s war on illegal migration traps legal immigrants

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Appeal from the grave: Proposed amendments to Israel’s death penalty law have sparked a wave of criticism

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The ХХХ-Files: Why the Epstein scandal just might stick to Teflon Trump

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Violent ends: America’s right-wing radicals remain deadlier than their opponents on the left

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Opinion

Not worth the paper it’s written on: Why any “land for peace” deal in Ukraine would be legally void

Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan for Ukraine violates international law and undermines the core principles …

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The Santa clause: America’s unrealistic new national security strategy offers Europeans an unexpected opportunity

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A nation adrift: A year into al-Sharaa’s rule, Syria remains undecided on its political system and foreign policy

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A House of Kremlin Dynamite: How the image of Russians in Western cinema has changed since 2022

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The Ayatollah walks into a bazaar: Iran is shopping around to upgrade its armed forces, and China is the lead supplier

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Economics

Paying up: The Kremlin is sacrificing regional development, business, healthcare, and education to fund the war in Ukraine

A new tax reform approved by the Russian parliament in mid-November is intended to squeeze …

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“Midas” vs. Mindich: How Ukraine’s NABU executed the biggest anti-corruption operation in its history — and why the EU is getting involved

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Frozen hopes: Europe’s reluctance to approve a loan program backed by Russian funds has left the Ukrainian budget on the brink of a crisis

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The wheels are coming off: Russia’s rail freight collapse exposes a deeper industrial crisis

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The far-wrong: European populists are gaining support by moderating their economic agenda

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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

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

At the end of October 2025, the international tribunal in The Hague heard testimony from …

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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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The Kremlin’s missionary: A former aide shares the secrets of the Russian Orthodox Church in Hungary

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Antifake

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

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) recently released a statement about its latest outstanding “success”: “The …

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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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Putin’s propagandists run false claim that Zelensky offered to nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize in exchange for Tomahawk missiles

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