Category: 1. Russia

When a Russian missile struck a Kyiv apartment block at the end of August, one resident was caught in a waking nightmare.

Mykola Yakimenko’s fifth-story apartment collapsed around him, raising clouds of debris. In that moment, he said, “I was…

The Russian government has approved a draft federal budget for 2026–2028. The full documents aren’t yet public, but the headline figures and major tax changes announced by the Finance Ministry make the Kremlin’s intentions clear:…

Three months after his release from prison, Belarusian opposition figure Siarhei Tsikhanouski is facing backlash over what many users view as demeaning and controlling behavior towards his wife, opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya….

Nuclear energy has become one of Russia’s most powerful tools of “soft power,” and the country demonstrated its technological leadership at the World Atomic Week forum held on September 25 in Moscow at the Atom Museum at VDNH.

In September 2022, Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization,” drafting hundreds of thousands of Russian men to fight in Ukraine. Within a matter of weeks, Putin declared that the mobilization drive was complete. But three…