Polish counter-intelligence services have dealt a powerful blow to Moscow’s long-arm espionage apparatus with the arrest of a senior employee of the Polish Ministry of Defense on suspicion of spying for Russian intelligence.
Despite decades of Kremlin claims that its weapons are wholly “indigenous,” a newly released report exposes a stark and strategic vulnerability at the heart of Russia’s flagship air defense system — the S-400 Triumf. Far from being a self-sufficient technological marvel, the system depends on microelectronics and materials sourced from outside Russia, including components rooted in U.S.
Putin Regime Raises Taxes on Population Up to 50% to Pay for War
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,
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,
Russia’s vast Far Eastern Federal District — nearly seven million square kilometers with just 7.9 million inhabitants — is slipping under the growing influence of China and North Korea, according to a new analysis by Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SZRU).
