At least 8,000 Russian criminal defendants have donated to the army to get their sentences reduced. How did funding the war become a legal strategy?
Panic as a weapon of the Kremlin
The Russian far-right movement “Russo-Slavic Unification and Revival”, known by the abbreviated name “Rusov”, maintains ties to political and far-right circles in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, while individuals affiliated with this organization participated in the war in Ukraine.
A Police HQ, Wind Farms, and Natural Gas: Mapping China’s Investments in Europe
The goal of the 2022 invasion—the military and political subjugation of all of Ukraine—is not achievable, meaning Putin has already failed. It is an open question whether his government could sustain a ceasefire that would effectively acknowledge such an outcome. But it is almost certain that he would not be able to politically survive a scenario in which he loses control of Crimea.
How Ukraine's "active defense" drove Moscow into a trap
Gagauzia sits between Russian influence and Turkish soft power as Moldova’s EU turn raises fears of a “second Transnistria”