Over the past two years, the abandonment of towns across Russia’s regions has accelerated dramatically. According to official data, 266 populated villages and towns were completely removed from existence across Russia over the past year alone. The year before that, another 306 villages and hamlets ceased to exist.
Adding to the blistering pace of new taxes on the Russian population which has seen tarrifs on automobiles hiked over 300%, Russia has entered a new phase of economic extraction as the Kremlin deepens its wartime spending. From July 1, 2025, taxes for housing and communal services across the country have risen by as much as 50% this year in some regions. In some regions, increases now approach — and even surpass — 50%,
Putin’s lead “negotiator” Kirill Dmitriev is no stranger to robbing Ukraine
Kirill Dmitriev — the Kremlin’s polished salesman sent to push Moscow’s “peace plan” onto the West — is no stranger to selling illusions. In Ukraine, his name is tied not to diplomacy, but to one of the most brazen and painful real-estate failures in Kyiv’s modern history: the Olympic Park project, a development
Despite Centuries of Trying, Russia Still Can’t Genocide Buryatia
Russia has spent hundreds of years trying to erase Buryatia — through conquest, forced assimilation, destruction of religious institutions, targeted executions of its intellectual class, and, more recently, the quiet suffocation of its cultural production. Yet despite this long, deliberate campaign of erasure, Buryatia persists.
Former Press Secretary For Putin’s “Nashi” Group Worked For Jeffrey Epstein
Maria Drokova, a former press secretary of the pro-Kremlin youth movement “Nashi,” worked within Jeffrey Epstein’s public-relations network in the years before his final arrest, according to a new investigation by the British outlet Byline Times. The report adds an unexpected Russian dimension to the long-running scrutiny of Epstein’s circle,
FBI Agent goes public with Russian intelligence operation that hooked Musk and Thiel
A former FBI special agent is currently out on $100,000 bond after being arrested for attempting to expose what he described as a covert Russian intelligence campaign to gain influence over leading American tech figures—namely
A Russian Navy submarine suffering serious technical failures has surfaced off the coast of Brittany, France, prompting NATO surveillance and deepening embarrassment for Moscow’s deteriorating naval forces. The diesel-electric submarine Novorossiysk (B-261), part of the Black Sea Fleet,
