Tag: russia
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Trips to Russia, master classes from Kremlin-aligned media figures, and lessons in Soviet military glory. Through its “Young Correspondents” program, Russia is training teenagers in occupied Ukraine to promote the… more ›
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Kyrgyzstan has become a de facto “crypto corridor” linking sanctioned Russian flows with trade in Central Asia and supply chains from China. In 2025, cryptocurrency transactions processed through licensed operators… more ›
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Ukraine’s new defence minister promised a sweeping, data-driven overhaul of Europe’s largest military to reward commanders achieving results on the battlefield and give Ukrainian forces the upper hand against Russia’s… more ›
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From the GQ archives: Who was behind the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings that accelerated Vladimir Putin’s rise to power? https://www.gq.com/story/moscow-bombings-mikhail-trepashkin-and-putin more ›
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As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous killing machines. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drones-war-russia.html more ›
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Following Prigozhin’s death, business school grad Dmitry Sytii is working to preserve the group’s multibillion-dollar African operations https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/wagner-africa-sytii-prigozhin-gold-12a45769#comments_sector more ›
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How skyrocketing gold prices support the Kremlin’s war machine https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/16/laughing-all-the-way-to-the-central-bank?utm_source=perplexity more ›
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Like water, gold simply can’t tell you what it used to be. more ›