Poland Arrests Defense Ministry Employee Working For Russia
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Poland Arrests Defense Ministry Employee Working For Russia

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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. The startling detention on Tuesday underscores the depth of the Kremlin’s covert efforts to undermine Poland’s security and destabilize European allies supporting Ukraine against Russia’s brutal war.

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Russia’s Depopulation Crisis Deepens As Government Writes Off Whole Towns
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Russia’s Depopulation Crisis Deepens As Government Writes Off Whole Towns

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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. In total, more than 500 populated places have disappeared in just two years—wiped off administrative maps because no one lives there anymore.

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Russia’s Famed S-400 Air Defense Systems Rely On U.S. Technology
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Russia’s Famed S-400 Air Defense Systems Rely On US Technology

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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. manufacturing and design, highlighting a critical fragility in Moscow’s military industrial base.

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Putin Regime Raises Taxes on Population Up to 50% to Pay for War
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Putin Regime Raises Taxes on Population Up to 50% to Pay for War

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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%, marking one of the steepest public cost hikes of Putin’s rule.

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Despite Centuries of Trying, Russia Still Can’t Genocide Buryatia
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Despite Centuries of Trying, Russia Still Can’t Genocide Buryatia

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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. And nowhere is this struggle clearer than in the repeated attempts to suppress Buryat cinema. For the Buryat people —

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Former Press Secretary For Putin’s “Nashi” Group Worked For Jeffrey Epstein
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Former Press Secretary For Putin’s “Nashi” Group Worked For Jeffrey Epstein

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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, detailing how Drokova and a colleague helped manage the financier’s media strategy during 2017 and 2018.

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Largest Employer in Russia Posts Massive Losses
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Largest Employer in Russia Posts Massive Losses

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In a stark indicator of Russia’s economic woes, Russian Railways (RZD) — the country’s largest employer with over 800,000 staff — has reported a net loss of ₽4.207 billion ($52.6 million) under Russian Accounting Standards (RAS) for January to September 2025. This marks a dramatic reversal from the ₽44.7 billion ($558.8 million) profit recorded in the same period last year.

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Desperate Putin Begs Trump to Save His War
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Desperate Putin Begs Trump to Save His War

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The Kremlin has dispatched its chief Ukraine negotiator to Washington in a stark admission: Vladimir Putin is running out of diplomatic options. Sources confirm that Kirill Dmitriev—a close associate of Putin and former investment banker at Goldman Sachs—is in the U.S. urging Donald Trump to intervene and salvage Russia’s standing in the war. The move comes after a sharp geopolitical pivot by Trump himself: the U.S.

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