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SPECIAL REPORT: Beijing buys 40 cargoes of sanctioned Russian gas at a discount — but Washington sanctions no more
On August 28, 2025, a tanker named Arctic Mulan moored at the Beihai terminal, in Guangxi, southern China.
INVESTIGATION: Russia's FSB Erases 4 Ukrainian Regions' Border on Paper — But the Line Won't Move an Inch
Not an assault, not an ultimatum, not a televised proclamation from the Kremlin. Two draft administrative orders, quietly filed on August 13 on Russia's…
INVESTIGATION: 36 States Sign in Chișinău — and the Lukashenko File Keeps Waiting for The Hague
Thirty-four members of the Council of Europe, plus Australia, plus Costa Rica, plus the European Union: the Enlarged Partial Agreement giving the future Special…
REPORT: One Year Past the August 18 Ultimatum, Ukraine's Moscow-Linked Church Is Still Waiting for a Verdict
At midnight on August 18, 2025, the deadline expired that the Ukrainian state had set for the country's largest religious structure to prove, documents…
SPECIAL REPORT: 60,000 Russian passports in Transnistria — the annexation waiting behind a consular window
More than sixty thousand applications for Russian citizenship in three months, in a sliver of Moldovan territory wedged between the Dniester River and the…
INVESTIGATION: 316 political cases in Crimea — the occupation is running out of gas, but never out of judges
Three hundred and sixteen people are being prosecuted on political grounds in occupied Crimea, according to the count released on August 11 by the…
INVESTIGATION: 2.9 million TSMC chips diverted to Huawei — and Washington still hasn't closed the door
It all starts in a Canadian laboratory, far from the clean rooms of Taiwan.
INVESTIGATION: The Senate Confirms 74 Nominees in One Minute, but Brazil Won't Open Its Door to Daniel Perez
On August 7, 2026, at 1:23 in the afternoon, the United States Senate rings the bell on what looks like an ordinary vote.
INVESTIGATION: 10 requests, zero answers — New Mexico sues the DOJ that promised transparency on Epstein
An American state has just sued the federal government for the right to read documents the law orders to be released.