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Drones attack three Greek-owned oil tankers bound for Russian Black Sea port

The Delta Harmony tanker is operated by Greece-based Delta Tankers. Photo: MarineTraffic Drones have attacked…

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Breaking with a toxic partner: Why Trumpism may actually benefit Europe in...

On Jan. 10, representatives from all five of Greenland’s parliamentary parties responded to Donald Trump’s…

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GRU and Wagner fighters served aboard the tanker Qendil, recently attacked by...

Military personnel with experience in the special forces of Russia’s military intelligence agency (GRU) and…

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Europe rising: Pressure from east and west compelled the EU to begin...

In 2025, the European Union was forced to seriously rethink its role in the world…

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Former CEO of Russian potash giant Uralkali goes missing in Cyprus

Vladislav Baumgertner, the former CEO of Russian potash producer Uralkali, went missing on Jan. 7…

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Society

Punishment instead of treatment: Why Trump’s repressive policies only worsen America’s homeless...

With Trump’s return to power, law enforcement raids have been targeting not only migrants but…

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Open-source data and media reports indicate Russia has lost 19 generals during...

Photo: Reuters / Scanpix Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February…

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“Ded Moroz is always Russian. He comes with a dagger to revive...

Poster for the New Year show at the House of the Unions. Photo: The Insider…

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Russia’s MoD claims Oreshnik ballistic missile strike on Lviv Region came in...

A still from a video of the strike on the Lviv Region in western Ukraine.…

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Owner of U.S.-seized Russian tanker identified as ally of Moldovan fugitive oligarch...

The owner of the tanker Bella 1/Marinera (which was seized on Jan. 7 in the…

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Drones attack three Greek-owned oil tankers bound for Russian Black Sea port

The Delta Harmony tanker is operated by Greece-based Delta Tankers. Photo: MarineTraffic Drones have attacked …

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GRU and Wagner fighters served aboard the tanker Qendil, recently attacked by Ukrainian drones in the Mediterranean

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Former CEO of Russian potash giant Uralkali goes missing in Cyprus

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Open-source data and media reports indicate Russia has lost 19 generals during the invasion of Ukraine

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“Ded Moroz is always Russian. He comes with a dagger to revive the USSR”: The Insider attends Moscow’s top New Year show for children

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Society

Punishment instead of treatment: Why Trump’s repressive policies only worsen America’s homeless problem

With Trump’s return to power, law enforcement raids have been targeting not only migrants but …

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This land is my land: The clashes between Palestinians and Israeli settlers look set to continue

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Make childbirth great again: China’s demographic crater forces U-turn from limits to pleas — but nobody’s listening

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Asylum not found: Why Russians are being deported from the United States

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Generating pushback: Eastern European countries are turning away political asylum seekers from Russia and Belarus

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Politics

A strange thaw: Iran loosens hijab and alcohol rules but plunges deeper into spy mania

Even before the current wave of protests began sweeping over Iran, the authorities in Tehran …

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The son of a Wehrmacht lieutenant: How Chile’s most right-wing president since Pinochet came to power

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Banking on repression: How Russia weaponized its “terrorist” list against political dissidents

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Peace talk show: Why key elements of the Ukraine “peace plans” remain unworkable

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Backing the junta against jihadists: Trump’s Nigerian war plans

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Opinion

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

On Jan. 10, representatives from all five of Greenland’s parliamentary parties responded to Donald Trump’s …

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Europe rising: Pressure from east and west compelled the EU to begin standing up for itself in 2025

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Into the shadows: Sanctions have reduced Russia from an oil superpower to a global energy disrupter

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

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

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Economics

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

Photo: Alexander Ryumin / TASS The Russian economy moved into an unmistakable period of decline …

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

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

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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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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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