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As rumors swirl about Russia’s next mobilization drive, Meduza’s sources say the Kremlin is still weighing its options
Rumors in Russia about an impending wave of mobilization have been growing in recent months. They picked up steam in early ...
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Russia’s eastern Ukraine reconstruction work relies on sketchy job recruitment and exploitative labor practices
Russian companies have been setting up shop in the occupied Donbas for roughly two years, opening branches in Ukrainian ...
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Putin’s 2018 election campaign used stolen funds from embezzlement case that led to regional official’s imprisonment, investigation finds
A new investigation from the Russian election watchdog Golos has revealed that the misappropriated money in a major 2018 ...
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Russia forces out Doctors Without Borders after 32 years of work
Doctors Without Borders announced that it had to close its operations in Russia after the Justice Ministry removed its ...
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Russian Foreign Service’s house magazine contradicts Putin’s claim that swapping Navalny in August prisoner exchange was only a last-minute idea
The September issue of Razvedchik (the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service’s house magazine) features an article titled “The ...
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With manpower running thin on both sides, Russia targets Ukraine’s supply lines in Donbas and Kursk region
Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article takes stock of the recent developments on the ...
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The dozens of bases that could be in Ukraine’s crosshairs if the West greenlights long-range missile strikes deeper inside Russia
The Guardian, citing sources in the British government, reported that the U.K. had decided to allow Ukraine to use long-range ...
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Does Putin’s order to increase the Russian army by 180,000 soldiers mean a new wave of mobilization is coming?
On September 16, the Kremlin published a decree from Vladimir Putin ordering the expansion of the Russian army to 1.5 million ...
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Scarred by Soviet-era nuclear testing, Kazakhstan is poised to embrace atomic energy — with help from Russia
The government had announced plans to make Ulken the site of independent Kazakhstan’s first nuclear power plant — and at a ...
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Russia now has Iranian missiles. Here’s what that could mean for Ukraine.
Washington confirmed that Iran had transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia. With more weapons suited for hitting ...
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Photos and voices from Sumy, a Ukrainian border city facing constant Russian attacks
Sumy, a Ukrainian city just 18 miles from the Russian border, has been under regular Russian attack since the start of the ...
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‘Perhaps it’s all part of a clever plan’: Russian pundits and politicians react to Putin’s latest army expansion order
President Vladimir Putin issued a decree ordering the Russian military to expand its troop numbers by 180,000 soldiers, ...