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DECODING: Rosneft and Lukoil Sanctions, the Questions Few Outlets Are Asking
On October 22, 2025, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia's two largest oil companies, a decision most coverage treated as a single…
REPORT: Yaroslavl in flames, when the war reaches deep into Russia
In late March 2026, a refinery in the city of Yaroslavl, more than 250 kilometers northeast of Moscow, took a direct hit followed by…
DECODING: Tuapse, hit four times, the vulnerability of Russia's southern refining
On the Black Sea coast, the Tuapse refinery is no longer just an industrial site: it has become, despite itself, a barometer of Russia's…
ANALYSIS: Lines and rationing, daily life inside Russia's fuel crisis
By July 2026, gasoline and diesel had become, across much of Russia, something you planned around rather than something you simply bought.
OP-ED: Putin faces his own price cap, the extended-decree maneuver
A presidential decree extending a mechanism to 2027 announces nothing spectacular; it quietly reveals that no quick exit from the economic war is being…
FACT CHECK: Russia's shadow fleet, backbone of sanctions evasion
A shadow fleet appears under that name on no official registry; yet it exists, in practice, as a network of aging tankers whose sole…
COLUMN: Pyongyang, Moscow's secret arsenal
Twenty-nine thousand four hundred and eighty-eight containers: the figure sounds abstract, almost bureaucratic, until you remember it describes one of the largest clandestine arms…
EDITORIAL: Russia's shell industry, 17 times pre-war output
Seven million shells a year, seventeen times the pre-invasion level: however cold this figure looks on paper, it actually measures the depth of an…
INVESTIGATION: Rosneft and Lukoil under U.S. sanctions, the Trump maneuver
A signature at the U.S. Treasury, two Russian oil logos suddenly marked with a red flag: this is how, in October 2025, the Trump…