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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…
NOTE: The Kremlin and the diplomacy of waiting, the tally one week on
Volodymyr Zelensky called on Russia to take concrete diplomatic steps to end the war, according to NPR on June 18, 2026, a statement that…
FACT CHECK: Revisiting Yaroslavl in flames, what the numbers confirm
The Yaroslavl refinery suffered a direct strike followed by a fire in late March 2026, according to CNN on March 28, 2026, an event…
PORTRAIT: Tuapse, the context we so often forget
The Tuapse refinery, on the shores of the Black Sea, has been hit four times since March 2026, according to a count by the…
COLUMN: Putin faces his own price cap, between rhetoric and reality
Vladimir Putin signed, on June 26, 2026, a decree extending until the end of 2027 a Russian mechanism presented as a response to Western…