Investigation
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INVESTIGATION: The Diplomacy of Deception: Inside the Kremlin's Machinery for Simulating Peace While Striking
On June 23, 2026, Vladimir Putin declared that Russia was «ready to negotiate» with Ukraine — on the basis of the 2022 Istanbul agreements…
INVESTIGATION: Maritime quarantine: Taiwan's simulation that exposes Beijing's real blockade strategy
In June 2026, Taiwan conducted a tabletop exercise reconstructing precisely the scenario it fears most: a maritime quarantine imposed by Chinese forces. According to…
INVESTIGATION: Russian oil, the last lock — why the Baltics demand the embargo Brussels keeps deferring
Somewhere beneath the plains of Central Europe, millions of barrels of Russian crude oil continue to flow every month toward Hungarian, Slovak, and German…
INVESTIGATION: Kaliningrad, Forward Base: What Russia's Baltic Strike Rehearsals Reveal
On June 21, 2026, NATO surveillance radars once again registered the familiar and unsettling activity coming out of Kaliningrad's skies. Su-24M tactical bombers of…
INVESTIGATION: Bashneft, Kapotnya, Ryazan: the secret map of refineries Ukraine wants to extinguish
When you connect the dots on a map — Kapotnya south of Moscow, Ufa in the Urals at 1,300 km from Ukraine, the Ryazan…
INVESTIGATION: The SVR Accuses Latvia — Is Moscow Manufacturing a War Pretext?
On May 18–19, 2026, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service — the SVR — publicly declared that Ukrainian drone operators had been deployed in Latvian military…
INVESTIGATION: DOGE Is Dead, Long Live DOGE? What Musk's Departure Leaves in the Federal Bureaucracy
On June 25, 2026, Elon Musk announced on his social network X that his time as a "Special Government Employee" was coming to an…
INVESTIGATION: Taiwan Turns Its Back on Beijing — What the Polls Really Say
Every year since 1992, the National Chengchi University in Taipei publishes its survey on the identity and political preferences of Taiwanese citizens. It is…
INVESTIGATION: Hormuz, the naval powers reclaim their destiny
The Strait of Hormuz, that maritime choke point barely 33 kilometers wide at its narrowest, concentrates nearly 20% of the world's oil within its…