Society

Regulated into scarcity: Why EU pharma rules backfired and how to fix...

In 2025, the European Union began developing bloc-wide mechanisms to coordinate the supply of medicines.…

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Ex-“DPR” leader Pavel Gubarev charged with “discrediting” the Russian army

An administrative case has been opened against separatist leader Pavel Gubarev under Russia’s law on…

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Imprisoned ex-Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov sues Russia’s MoD over refusal to...

Timur Ivanov, Russia's former Deputy Defense Minister, was sentenced to 13 years in a penal…

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Russia hands two minors seven-year prison sentences for setting fire to Mi-8...

Russia’s 2nd Eastern District Military Court has sentenced two underage residents of Omsk to seven…

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Economics

Divergent trends: Why a growing economy can still leave many people poorer

The declining levels of trust in political institutions and the growing support for populist politicians…

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News

Russian official claims Telegram crackdown was motivated by “foreign intelligence services’ access...

Photo: RIA Novosti Earlier today, Russia’s Minister of Digital Development, Maksut Shadaev, outlined the reasons…

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Detained Russian “shadow fleet” tanker Grinch released by France after paying multimillion-euro...

The detained tanker Grinch being escorted by French vessels. Photo: Manon Cruz / Reuters French…

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Society

“We didn’t spill our blood to negotiate with them”: Iranian society in...

MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP / Getty After the regime’s harsh crackdown on…

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Ukraine’s ex-energy minister Herman Halushchenko arrested and charged with money laundering after...

Ukraine’s former energy minister Herman Halushchenko has been served with a notice of suspicion on…

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Opinion

Superpowerless: Putin’s dream of a new world order is running into reality

Photo: Getty Images After American forces removed Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela earlier this year, the…

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News

Ex-“DPR” leader Pavel Gubarev charged with “discrediting” the Russian army

An administrative case has been opened against separatist leader Pavel Gubarev under Russia’s law on …

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Imprisoned ex-Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov sues Russia’s MoD over refusal to send him to the frontlines in Ukraine

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Russia hands two minors seven-year prison sentences for setting fire to Mi-8 helicopter at military airfield in Omsk

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Russian official claims Telegram crackdown was motivated by “foreign intelligence services’ access to correspondence”

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Detained Russian “shadow fleet” tanker Grinch released by France after paying multimillion-euro fine

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Society

Regulated into scarcity: Why EU pharma rules backfired and how to fix Europe’s drug drought

In 2025, the European Union began developing bloc-wide mechanisms to coordinate the supply of medicines. …

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“We didn’t spill our blood to negotiate with them”: Iranian society in the aftermath of the protest shootings

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“Stepping outside your apartment is a mortal risk”: Russian forces target civilians as the Kremlin’s “human safari” in Kherson continues

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Olympic calm: Russian athletes’ return to the international stage is producing remarkably little controversy

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Resistance network coverage: Iranian protesters have shown the world how to combat internet shutdowns

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Politics

Missing the mark: Why Putin’s “wonder weapons” only make Russia less secure

Sarah Starkey, CC BY 3.0 When the New START Treaty between Russia and the U.S. …

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Not so nICE: How US immigration enforcement became a weapon of social control

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When rules no longer rule: Global institutions are failing, and it is far from clear what might replace them

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Gulf buddies: Arab monarchies are squabbling over regional standing, fossil fuels, and Trump’s attention

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The roadmap to Damascus: Syria’s new government is struggling to bring the Kurds under its authority

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Opinion

Superpowerless: Putin’s dream of a new world order is running into reality

Photo: Getty Images After American forces removed Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela earlier this year, the …

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Au revoir, America: What European opposition to Trump actually means

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The devil’s due: Why Putin’s pursuit of a multipolar world risks ruin for Russia itself

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Posts change, but NABU endures: Why sweeping high-level personnel changes in Kyiv point to a stronger Ukrainian state

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Polar disorder: Why Trump wants to seize Greenland and what a U.S. annexation of the island would mean for NATO

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Economics

Divergent trends: Why a growing economy can still leave many people poorer

The declining levels of trust in political institutions and the growing support for populist politicians …

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Russia’s economy in 2026: A rising deficit, regional depression, and the possible depletion of sovereign reserves

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Live for today: Trump’s politicization of economic policy poses a threat to longer-term stability

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A quiet revolution: The world’s turn toward green energy is irreversible

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Catch your fish and eat it too: Inside Kamchatka’s poaching empire

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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

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

Volodymyr Mykolaienko immediately after returning from captivity. Telegram channel of Kherson Oblast Military Administration Head …

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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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“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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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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