Spontaneous willow woods and intense biodiversity have flourished in the wake of the Kakhovka Dam breach, caused by an explosion two years ago in Ukraine’s Kherson region. Russian sabotage was suspected when the dam, a critical hydroelectric…
Category: 1. Russia
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Russia’s Migrant Crackdown Expands With Mandatory Mobile Tracking
Russia is preparing to launch a sweeping new system to monitor migrant workers, combining biometric registration, location tracking, and intensified police oversight.
Set to begin in September, the program marks the latest phase in the Kremlin’s…
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Russia Plans To Track Foreigners Via Smartphones
Migrants entering Moscow will soon be required to install a mobile phone application that tracks their location. Starting on September 1, an experimental digital surveillance program will target migrants in the Russian capital. The app will…
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‘This has to happen in the next 5–10 years’ With a growing Russian threat and Trump raising the stakes, NATO scrambles to lock in new defense plans
NATO defense ministers convened in Brussels this week for their final meeting ahead of the alliance’s annual summit, set to take place in The Hague on June 21–22, where leaders are expected to endorse a new set of capability targets aimed at…
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‘We’re right at the epicenter’ In Siberian villages, locals react to Ukraine’s ‘Spiderweb’ attack on nearby airfield — Meduza
On Sunday evening, around 5:00 p.m., what looked like an ordinary cargo truck pulled up near a roadside café in Russia’s Irkutsk region. No one paid it much attention — until drones began lifting off from its roof. They hovered briefly, then…
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Russia outlaws Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) as ‘undesirable organization’ — Meduza
Russia’s Justice Ministry has outlawed the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) as an “undesirable organization.”
The designation was reported by the rights group OVD-Info on Thursday, citing the Justice…
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Inside Ukraine’s remarkable drone attack
You can generally tell when Vladimir Putin appears rattled by an adverse event in his war on Ukraine. He (or one of his proxies) ramps up the bloodcurdling rhetoric. And so it is with Ukraine’s “Spiderweb” drone attack on four airbases…
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NATO has approved the largest arms build-up since the Cold War
NATO defence ministers have approved the largest arms build-up since the Cold War.

About it writes the agency DPA.
“NATO has agreed on the largest rearmament programme since the Cold War”, – stated in the…
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congressmen briefed Zelenskyy on interacting with Trump
American congressmen gave Volodymyr Zelenskyy a briefing on interacting with United States leader Donald Trump.

About it writes Politico.
Representatives of Congress noted that the head of the Kiev regime and his…
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Putin’s Alleged Daughter Works at Paris Galleries Exhibiting Anti-War Art – Reports
President Vladimir Putin’s alleged extramarital daughter has quietly assumed a role in the French art world, working with galleries that exhibit anti-war artists, including some from Ukraine, exiled journalist Nastya Rodionova
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