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OP-ED: Pyongyang, the ally Russia never talks about
Between September 2023 and January 2026, North Korea reportedly delivered 29,488 munitions containers to Russia, according to an iStories analysis published March 16, 2026,…
FACT CHECK: what do we really know about Russia's shell industry
Estonian intelligence estimates Russian shell production at roughly 7 million units per year, or seventeen times the pre-war level, according to a report published…
PORTRAIT: Rosneft and Lukoil, two Russian giants under US sanctions
On October 22, 2025, the US Treasury imposed unprecedented sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil, the two largest Russian oil companies, in what the official…
COMMENTARY: Russia's oil price cap, extended into 2027
Vladimir Putin signed, on June 26, 2026 according to Interfax, a decree extending until the end of 2027 Russia's countermeasure mechanism against the Western…
COLUMN: Kerosene still nowhere to be found, a month after Russia's ban
A month has passed since Russia banned its kerosene exports until November 30, 2026, a measure announced by Moscow and documented by the Moscow…
INVESTIGATION: Novak and the five-figure import gamble
On July 8, 2026, Russian deputy prime minister Alexander Novak uttered a sentence that, on its own, sums up the scale of an unprecedented…
REPORT: Field notes from Simferopol in the dark
On July 6, 2026, a Ukrainian drone strike hit an electrical substation near Simferopol, the administrative capital of occupied Crimea, according to information reported…
DECODING: Western sanctions on Russian oil, the questions few are asking
On October 22, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department made a major move by simultaneously sanctioning Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia's two largest oil companies.
ANALYSIS: A third of Russian refining offline, what the numbers reveal about the balance of power
One number is sometimes enough to sum up a war of attrition: according to estimates from Macro-Advisory, roughly one third of Russia's refining capacity…