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Russia May Have Won a Company, but Lost a Friend in Serbia

Russia May Have Won a Company, but Lost a Friend in Serbia

“To others his example is a lesson.” Those words from Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” seem strangely apt for the unfolding drama around Serbia’s...

thursday 10

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Tatyana Rybakova

Trump’s Ukraine Peace Push Was Always a Naked Cash Grab

Trump’s Ukraine Peace Push Was Always a Naked Cash Grab

When the Trump administration’s 28-point peace plan for the Ukraine war leaked last month, its evident pro-Russian bent was treated with a mixture...

thursday 20

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Casey Michel

Did Russia Really Have a Gasoline Crisis? New Data Suggests Otherwise.

Did Russia Really Have a Gasoline Crisis? New Data Suggests Otherwise.

The way events unfold in Russia today bears little resemblance to the way those same events are portrayed in the media. As headlines started...

03.12.2025 2

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Dmitry Nekrasov

Europe’s Anti-Russian Sabotage Plans Miss the Real Problem

Europe’s Anti-Russian Sabotage Plans Miss the Real Problem

Russia believes itself to be already at war with the West — or at least the European part of NATO — and the Kremlin is prepared to apportion the...

02.12.2025 20

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Emily Ferris

The System Built to Manage Russia’s Nuclear Legacy Is Crumbling

The System Built to Manage Russia’s Nuclear Legacy Is Crumbling

For more than three decades, Russia has been burdened with the remains of the Soviet nuclear project: a vast, sprawling, largely invisible...

02.12.2025 3

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Charles Digges

Handing the Donbas to Moscow Will Doom its People to Suffering

Handing the Donbas to Moscow Will Doom its People to Suffering

Remember how everyone recently laughed at the UN for publishing a tearful report saying that no one reads its reports? Well, I can tell you about a...

28.11.2025 1

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Natalia Morozova

How Russia’s Cultural Life Continues Despite the War

How Russia’s Cultural Life Continues Despite the War

For the fourth year in a row, Russia has been constructing a new order of life. This manifests not only in a protracted war, but a contraction in...

27.11.2025 1

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Yan Levchenko