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A turning point in the winter of 2026: experts say we must prepare now for three potential war scenarios

Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine: EU agrees largest-ever package of listings targeting almost 1600 individuals and entities in Russia’s military-industrial complex

Russia Warns of Immediate Response to Any Threat in Transnistria

Why Moscow is staying tight-lipped on Trump's energy ceasefire

Marching into the Duma: The cost of Putin’s push for war veterans in parliament

Russia’s Rage Fixes on the British

Ukraine touts gains from Operation Vivaldi as Russia claims major encirclements. What’s really happening on the battlefield?

European Peace Facility: Council approves €10 million for the Balkan Medical Task Force

How Russia Uses Ukrainian Children to Bolster Occupation and Wage a Protracted War

Preparing for a wider Union

Exclusive: A Russian Blueprint For A Cold, Dark Winter In Ukraine

Russia ready to turn screws on Armenia

Kyiv metro to receive new, modern railcars with support from EBRD

China’s LinkedIn Espionage Is Only Getting More Advanced

Peace on the Kremlin's terms? What lies behind calls for talks with Russia?

Russian companies moving from Moscow, mostly east

How a failed attack in Leipzig revealed a wider Russian campaign

ANALYSIS: Russia’s Global Recruitment Pipeline: How Russia Hunts the World’s Poor to Feed Its War in Ukraine – Part 2

EU-funded project to support Universal Health Insurance reform in Armenia

Chinese foothold

Russia And Ukraine’s New Theories Of Victory? – Analysis

Fewer vetoes, clearer paths to membership: How Brussels plans for a bigger EU

Vucic, Moscow and the elections in Serbia: How Russian influence is being used in the battle for power

ANALYSIS: Russia’s Global Recruitment Pipeline: How Russia Hunts the World’s Poor to Feed Its War in Ukraine – Part 1

FSB Focuses Crosshairs on Russian Exiles

The carrot and the stick — the reality behind Russia’s attitudes towards Abkhazia

Anomalous turnout for verified collaborators: how people in the occupied Ukrainian territories were involved in Russia’s “elections”

EU sanctions 10 individuals and 17 entities over unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia

Putin shows no sign of stopping the war as Russia doubles down on Ukraine

Russia’s Baltic escalation playbook: fear is part of the strategy

Sanctions in exchange for political prisoners: What game is Russia playing?

25,000 families across Western Balkans now have warmer and greener homes thanks to EBRD, EU and donor support

Xi’s Purge of the PLA Makes a Taiwan War Less Likely in 2027, but a Crisis Harder to Manage

After Nestle and Auchan seizures, Russia is coming for others

Russia's war financing could run short by early 2028, KSE Institute says

"Don't wait for mobilization – go serve for money" – Crimea awaits a new wave of mobilization into the Russian army

University in central Ukrainian city of Poltava reopens building after EU-backed renovation

12 European countries call on EU to strengthen presence in Arctic facing Russia and China

Russian propaganda glorifies dying for country, students say

Russia raises 2027 military spending by 27%, budget documents show

How Russia recruits Belarusians for war in Ukraine: Methods and consequences

Internet blackout in Ukraine: is Russia capable of "shutting down" communications by striking data centers?

Human rights violations in Russia: Council lists ten individuals over the barring of Yabloko from the State Duma elections

ISW warns of coordinated Russian campaign against Europe: NATO must prepare for possible attacks

Oleshky under siege: a city where people eat grass, hide bodies in a hospital basement and wait for an evacuation that never comes

Analysis State of the Union: A Look at the Western Balkans

The long-range drone war: Ukraine and Russia scramble for supremacy in the skies

Azerbaijan’s soil laboratories align with international standards

Purges of top PLA brass spur questions about fighting ability

Russia Chartbook by KSE Institute: Energy Price Moderation Returns Pressures; Budget Deficit Grows

"Ukrainian volunteers" in the Russian Federation: propaganda or a wartime resource?

Russia’s New Frontier in Africa

Russia is losing influence in Azerbaijan. How Baku Is rewriting the rules with Moscow

A Hard Winter Awaits Russia: Putin’s Plan Is Bursting at the Seams

Russia’s Wartime Duma Election: What the Result Reveals — and What It Cannot Prove

France and Switzerland take measures to counter Russian hybrid threats

Why a fresh wave of North Korean soldiers may fight in Russia's war in Ukraine

New international cooperation project in Western Balkans and Republic of Moldova supports EU accession by enhancing intellectual property systems

The Propaganda Monitor: RSF exposes China’s global campaign to distort journalism worldwide

ANALYSIS: How Russia Is Trying to Paralyze Kyiv Without Occupying It

Commission disburses €3.3 billion in defence funding to Ukraine

UN Human Rights report details shocking pattern of sexual violence amid Russia’s full-scale armed attack on Ukraine

Russia’s elites pay ever greater price for Ukraine war

Moldova: taxation as a tool in reintegrating Transnistria

"An alarming situation." In Crimea, elections for the Russian State Duma are being overseen by the military and the FSB.

Kremlin Prepares to Cross the Final Red Line

Why the Baltics are pushing back against new fears of a Russian attack

Russian spies ran a campaign against Kyiv on Anthropic’s Claude, and the AI chatbot’s maker caught them at it

Ukraine faces 'toughest winter' since Russia's full-scale invasion, UN official tells BBC

As Russia’s invasion falters, Putin boasts of imaginary victories

Russian arrested for spying on Nato bases

The camps where Xi Jinping tries to save his army from corruption

How Russia tries to recruit women into war by promising to write off their debt

EU Enlargement: Between Geopolitical Ambition and Economic Reality

Russia’s Hybrid Campaign Against Georgia: Motives, Methods, and Actors

After the "elections" – negotiations? What lies behind Moscow's signals?

Russia's banks head for a record $51bn year as corporate credit losses build

Sweden warns that Putin's robot army is targeting German and French elections

Russian region offers record $18,000 reward for recruiting foreigners to fight in Ukraine

UNDP and Adaptation Fund launch US$5 million initiative to scale locally led climate adaptation innovation across the Western Balkans

"Cultural exchange": Russia sends children from occupied Ukrainian territories to summer camp in North Korea

Ukraine Rethinks Mine Clearance for a New Age

Hungary orders 10 Russian diplomats to leave country over 'unacceptable' activities

Putin has found a new reason to talk about peace

€30 million EU grant boosts EIB support for district heating in Ukraine

China secretly supplied Russia with components for killer drones

Before the decisive attack? What was the summer like on the front for Ukraine and Russia, and what will autumn bring

EU targets camp in North Korea where Russia sends kidnapped Ukrainian children

EU or Eurasia: Why Putin sparred with Armenia’s PM

Is Ukraine’s Next Target to Shut Down Russia’s Commercial Airspace?

A New Chance for a Wider EU: What the Emerging Enlargement Debate Reveals about Europe's Future

US Renews Ukraine Peace Push, But Former Ambassadors See No Breakthrough

Danish intelligence says Russia preparing sabotage attacks against defense industry

Intelligence service says it has identified ‘concrete examples’ of Russia attempting to recruit ordinary Danes through social media and other online platforms

Ahead of the State Duma Elections: The Results Will Be Decided in the Kremlin

Mobilization "in the red": how the Russian Federation is trying to compensate for its own losses on the battlefield

EBRD lends €10 million to Aversi Pharma in Georgia

How young Cameroonians end up fighting in Russia's war

Analysts say economic desperation and fraudulent recruitment schemes are funneling Cameroonian youth into the Russian military — with deadly consequences.

Belarus fails to break free from Russia’s economic grip

Russian Oil Tracker – August 2026: Strikes on oil infrastructure and diesel export ban reduced crude and oil products shipments through the Black Sea by 26% and 47% respectively

Russia's saboteurs have followed the arms industry east into Nato