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EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Russia’s intelligence services (RIS) have failed spectacularly in Ukraine: in planning, execution, and analysis, yet they will face no reckoning. Vladimir Putin cannot afford to hold the SVR, GRU, or FSB accountable because they a…
DEEP DIVE – By any traditional definition, the city of Ryazan doesn’t belong on a list of battlegrounds in the Ukraine war. There are no Ukrainian soldiers or tanks deployed there, and it’s in western Russia, roughly 600 miles from the active front li…
Vladimir Putin did not agree to an absolute ceasefire with Ukraine when he spoke by phone with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, as was the U.S. administration’s goal.
Trump posted to Truth Social shortly after the call, “My phone conversation tod…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will deliver his state of the nation address on February 29, two weeks before the presidential election in which he is seeking another six-year term. Putin will address the Federal Assembly about his goals for the comi…
Stanislav Kucher is Editor-in-Chief of the Samizdat Online anti-censorship platform and a former Russian TV presenter. He left Russia in 2019. These are his thoughts […] More
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Drones hit an airport in the western Pskov region and were also shot down over Oryol, Bryansk, Ryazan, Kaluga and the Moscow region, defence officials said.
Russian authorities confirmed the death of Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, putting to rest any doubts about whether he was on a plane that crashed Wednesday.
Yevgeny Prigozhin was eulogized by Vladimir Putin, even as suspicions grew that the Russian president was behind the Wednesday’s plane crash.
The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has been trying for more than a year to clinch a deal to ensure the plant is demilitarized.
The short-lived revolt could have long-term consequences for President Vladimir Putin’s two-decade hold on power and his war in Ukraine.