Tag: russia

• Using Threats and False Promises, Russia Sends Africans to Fight in Ukraine – Africa Defense Forum

  May 31, 2025

  ADF STAFF Among a handful of prisoners of war captured in Ukraine after fighting for Russia, a young Somali man stood out. He said he joined the army to give… more ›

• In Russia, dozens of dissenters are held as psychiatric patients

  February 20, 2025

    LONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Dozens of Russians are being subjected to compulsory psychiatric treatment because of their political views, according to lawyers and human rights groups – a… more ›

• War Is Personal project — based on a true story / julia kochetova

  December 30, 2024

  Recruit of the 68th Jaeger Brigade during training in the Donetsk region near the front line. This unit liberated the village of Blagodatne – one of the very first settlements… more ›

• The Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online Poker

  September 29, 2024

  Several years ago, people warned that artificial intelligence would be an existential threat to online poker; today, bots are everywhere. https://longreads.com/2024/09/20/the-russian-bot-army-that-conquered-online-poker/ more ›

• The New Propaganda War

  May 6, 2024

  Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. This article was featured in the One Story… more ›

• A most wanted man: Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek exposed as decade-long GRU spy

  March 3, 2024

    Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek wasn’t just responsible for Germany’s largest financial fraud in history. He was also a decade-long Russian spy. This is a joint investigation with Der… more ›

• Wagner Group is now Africa Corps. What this means for Russia’s operations on the continent

  February 15, 2024

  In August 2023, Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin died after his private jet crashed about an hour after taking off in Moscow. He had been Russia’s pointman in Africa since… more ›

• January 27, 2024

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• ‘We’re tired of being good girls’: Russia’s military wives and mothers protest against Putin

  December 25, 2023

  Against a backdrop of snow-capped birch trees, a group of women wearing white headscarves blend into the Russian winter landscape. In a country where public dissent is rare, their blunt… more ›

• How a burnt out, abandoned ship reveals the secrets of a shadow tanker network

  September 18, 2023

  Early in the afternoon of 1 May, Oleksandr Lepyoshkin entered his cabin to find it filled with smoke. Seconds later the glass exploded from his windows as the ship was… more ›