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Russian bilingual online newspaper headquartered in Riga
Available reporting presents a wide but overlapping range for Russian monthly casualties in the Ukraine war: high-end aggregation by Ukrainian authorities and independent trackers implies roughly 30,0...
Russia currently fields larger authorized troop numbers than Ukraine and continues to pour manpower into the front, but it is suffering disproportionately high casualties and equipment attrition that ...
and said it reviewed audio of two intercepted October phone calls: an October 14 exchange between and foreign‑policy aide Yuri Ushakov in which Witkoff coaches Ushakov on how to frame a peace pitch to...
Independent reporting and facial-recognition checks have not produced verifiable proof that Vladimir Putin uses body doubles; specific viral images and claims have been debunked or shown to be unprove...
Enterprises across Russia are reporting a sharp rise in wage arrears in 2025: official Rosstat snapshots cited in reporting show arrears climbing into the low billions of rubles — multiple outlets put...
Russian authorities have blocked access to the U.S.-owned gaming platform Roblox; Roskomnadzor cited “extremist” materials, child safety risks and alleged “LGBT propaganda” as reasons, and users in Ru...
Ukraine’s 2025 strikes on Russian refineries have coincided with clear domestic price pressure, intermittent export disruption and measurable hits to refining capacity — but the scale and permanence o...
Stalin’s Soviet Union showcased a mix of rapid industrial growth and severe political repression that critics say exposed systemic weaknesses of state‑led communism: mass purges, collectivization‑link...
Available reporting shows very high Russian personnel losses in 2024–2025 and multiple expert assessments that large volumes of Russian troops have been committed despite heavy casualties — figures ra...
Crowdfunding platforms play a supporting but inconsistent role in the No Kings protests: available reporting and research show crowdfunding is a clear tool for funding independent media and digital-er...