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

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...

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...

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

July 27, 2025

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

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New pipeline project to send Russian oil from Hungary to Serbia

July 26, 2025

Фото: Bela Szandelszky / AP Photo Serbian Energy Minister Dubravka Djedović-Handanović has announced that Belgrade,…

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Russian bots pose as The Insider to spread disinfo about Moldova’s President...

July 26, 2025

Fugitive Pro-Russian oligarch Ilan Shor — who now resides in Russia — fled house arrest…

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Over 1,000 Ukrainians added to Russia’s “list of terrorists and extremists” since...

July 25, 2025

Ukrainians in a Russian court. Photo: Alexandra Astakhova / Mediazona As of July 10, 2025,…

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Confession

“Everyone wants me to pick a fight with my cousin”: Nate Vance...

July 25, 2025

A few thousand foreign military volunteers are still on the ground in Ukraine, fighting to…

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Politics

The rainbow revolution: How Viktor Orbán’s fight against LGBT rights backfired —...

July 25, 2025

At the end of June, Budapest hosted its 30th Pride march — the oldest in…

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China ships drone engines to Russia disguised as “industrial refrigeration units”

July 25, 2025

The Russian manufacturer of Garpiya-A1 drones continues to receive Chinese-made engines, according to a Reuters…

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

July 27, 2025

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

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New pipeline project to send Russian oil from Hungary to Serbia

July 26, 2025
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Russian bots pose as The Insider to spread disinfo about Moldova’s President Maia Sandu, alleging she uses orphans to win votes

July 26, 2025
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Over 1,000 Ukrainians added to Russia’s “list of terrorists and extremists” since 2022

July 25, 2025
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China ships drone engines to Russia disguised as “industrial refrigeration units”

July 25, 2025
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Society

The birth of poverty: What the Dominican Republic can teach Vladimir Putin about the price of high fertility

July 22, 2025

Russia is currently engaged in a heated debate over whether to further restrict — or …

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Waiting in hell: A refugee camp crisis in the Netherlands has led to a wave of suicides

July 10, 2025
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Citizen by gender: How transgender people fought discrimination in the USSR

July 10, 2025
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Setup artists: How the FSB stages arson attacks to send inconsequential “terrorists” to prison

July 8, 2025
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“Humanitarian aid distribution points are like a real-life Hunger Games”: How Gaza residents survive

July 4, 2025
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Politics

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

July 27, 2025

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

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The rainbow revolution: How Viktor Orbán’s fight against LGBT rights backfired — and what it could mean for his hold on power

July 25, 2025
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Fire and ICE: Inside the political standoff in Los Angeles

July 22, 2025
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Putin sidelined: Russia fails to stop Turkey from reconciling Azerbaijan and Armenia

July 22, 2025
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An Azeri vendetta: Russia’s crackdown on an “ethnic organized crime group” has collided with Putin’s former classmate

July 17, 2025
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Opinion

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

July 27, 2025

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

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The leaning axis: Iranian proxies are bent but not broken after U.S.-Israeli strikes

July 18, 2025
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UNnecessary? Private companies are tackling Gaza’s humanitarian crisis

July 17, 2025
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Dark сhords: Anti-Israel scandal at Glastonbury exposes deepening divides in British society

July 14, 2025
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Promises made, promises broken. Why Trump and Musk failed to deliver on their budget pledges

July 4, 2025
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Economics

The hundred-ruble tuber: How potatoes became Russia's posh produce

July 3, 2025

Hush Naidoo Jade, Unsplash Potato prices in Russia have stabilized, and officials are reporting the …

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Slow but steady: Warren Buffett became the world’s wealthiest investor while ignoring the American economy’s most profitable trends

June 24, 2025
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Two sides of the same ruble: The Russian currency’s recent strength isn’t likely to last — and it’s already hurting the country’s economy

June 24, 2025
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Feast and famine: Russian banks book record profits amid coal mining collapse and wage arrears in construction sector

June 9, 2025
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TV vs. Refrigerator: Officials claim inflation in Russia is under control, but staple food prices tell a different story

June 6, 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

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

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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“Everyone wants me to pick a fight with my cousin”: Nate Vance on war, family politics, and the fight for Ukraine

July 25, 2025
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“They tied me to a chair with duct tape and started torturing me with electricity”: Testimonies of Ukrainian women abducted by Russia

July 19, 2025
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“If we got captured, we’d probably be executed”: Confessions of three foreign volunteers fighting for Ukraine

July 15, 2025
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“In emigration, the war was all we ever talked about. In Russia, it’s bad form.” The life of activists who returned to their home country

July 10, 2025
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Antifake

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

July 11, 2025

Kremlin-controlled media outlets including RIA Novosti, RT, and Lenta.ru are circulating false claims that Western …

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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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Russia’s Channel One parrots false Daily Mail story of a UK city being “overrun with rats the size of cats” amid garbage collector strike

April 10, 2025
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    Weekly Russia-Ukraine war summary: Russia’s “tactical breakthrough” east of Myrnohrad, third F-16 lost, peace talks in Istanbul

    by admin May 17, 2025
    May 17, 2025

    In this week's summary: During the “ceasefire” from May 8 to May 11, Russia increased …

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    Russia’s lead negotiator Vladimir Medinsky misquotes made-up Bismarck line, invents new Napoleon quote while commenting on Ukraine talks

    by admin May 17, 2025
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    Vladimir Medinsky during an interview with Russian state TV broadcaster VGTRK. The head of Russia’s …

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    Stage prop talks: Why the Istanbul meeting could not portend peace for Ukraine

    by admin May 16, 2025
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    As should have been expected, Vladimir Putin did not show up for the peace talks …

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    Threats from Moscow, “detached” demands, largest POW exchange to date: Key takeaways from the Russia-Ukraine talks in Turkey

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    A meeting between delegations from Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul on May 16, 2025. Photo: …

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    Russian botnet begins sending out fake European articles defending Putin’s decision not to meet with Zelensky in Istanbul

    by admin May 16, 2025
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    The Russian bot network Matryoshka has begun distributing fake articles presented as editorials by major …

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    An inconvenient laureate. How Sergei Loznitsa’s Cannes nomination can help Russia’s anti-war resistance

    by admin May 15, 2025
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    Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s latest feature, Two Prosecutors, has been included in the competition of the …

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    All work and low pay: Inside Russia's labor-starved military economy

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    Russia’s wartime labor market presents a paradox: despite record-low unemployment and a shortfall of nearly …

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    U.S. Justice Department seeks to deport Russian biologist working at Harvard for “smuggling” frog embryos

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    The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Kseniia Petrova, a Russian biologist working at Harvard, …

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