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Russia’s top court labels U.S.-based arm of Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation a...

Leonid Volkov, a top aide to the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, served as the…

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Politics

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

The murder of conservative activist and Trump supporter Charlie Kirk in September triggered a nationwide…

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France arrests leaders of NGO “SOS Donbass” on suspicion of spying for...

Anna Novikova. Photo: Le Parisien French authorities have taken into custody the leaders of the…

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Russian publisher AST begins using AI to flag “LGBT propaganda” in books,...

Photo: AST Publishing House The Russian publishing house AST announced that it has recalled a…

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Politics

Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated...

Photo: kremlin.ru Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for…

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St. Petersburg street musicians arrested for singing anti-war songs flee Russia after...

Photo: Anton Vaganov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Diana Loginova, the lead singer of…

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Large MAGA accounts on X turn out to be registered in Asia,...

Dozens of major X accounts promoting Donald Trump’s political agenda and other far-right narratives turn…

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Lithuania convicts 18-year old Ukrainian for IKEA arson ordered by Russian intelligence

Photo: LRT A Lithuanian court has sentenced an 18-year-old Ukrainian man to three years and…

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India buys Russian Urals crude at lowest price in at least two...

Russian Urals crude is being sold to Indian refineries at the lowest price in at…

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Russia’s Matryoshka bot network launches disinfo campaign over corruption scandal engulfing Ukraine

The Kremlin’s “Matryoshka” bot network has launched a coordinated disinformation campaign amid a major corruption…

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Russia’s top court labels U.S.-based arm of Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation a “terrorist organization”

Leonid Volkov, a top aide to the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, served as the …

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France arrests leaders of NGO “SOS Donbass” on suspicion of spying for Russia, spreading pro-Kremlin war propaganda

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Russian publisher AST begins using AI to flag “LGBT propaganda” in books, Stephen King’s “It” first to be reviewed

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St. Petersburg street musicians arrested for singing anti-war songs flee Russia after release from jail

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Large MAGA accounts on X turn out to be registered in Asia, Africa, and Russia

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Society

Virusocracy: How anti-vax became a political platform

The United States and Europe are facing a rise in cases of measles, a disease …

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Xi and I are gonna live forever: Why Vladimir Putin’s quest to survive for 150 years is dead on arrival

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The anti-scientific revolution: Trump’s policies are reversing America’s global dominance in academic research

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“They ran me over twice”: Russian military personnel responsible for multiple car accidents in frontline regions

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A happy ending. Why more and more countries are legalizing euthanasia

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Politics

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

The murder of conservative activist and Trump supporter Charlie Kirk in September triggered a nationwide …

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Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev

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Bees against honey: why many immigrants oppose new waves of migration

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Gasoline coup: Al-Qaeda is threatening to seize Putin’s gold mines in Mali

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No place of refuge: Germany’s tougher migration policy hits Russian and Belarusian dissidents

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Opinion

“He must have got this from K.”: How a Russian operative used the American media to bring a risible “peace deal” into existence

Rhetoric around Russia’s war in Ukraine has once again shifted to discussions about a potential …

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Schengen echo chamber: The EU’s new visa restrictions will hit vulnerable Russians without actually enhancing the bloc’s security

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Betrayal or rebirth: Europe’s left wing has adapted to Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine

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Better than war: The fragile peace between Hamas and Israel is still preferable to the alternative

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Bursting the bubble: Europe is capable of phasing out Russian gas ahead of schedule

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Economics

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

Kyiv urgently needs 140 billion euros, but its Western partners have yet to agree on …

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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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Budget of mass destruction: VAT hike signals Russia’s course toward prolonged war and economic decline

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Back to the 1990s: Russians are being forced to choose between overpriced foreign cars and locally assembled scrap metal

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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

“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

Kostiantynivka. Photo: Donetsk Regional Military Administration U.S. officials say Vladimir Putin has proposed abandoning Russian …

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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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“We tried to leave as few buildings intact as possible”: Russian-speaking IDF soldiers on their service in Gaza

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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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