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COMMENTARY: Russia's Navy in the Baltic — The Hybrid Escalation That Dares Not Speak Its Name
On June 18, 2026, the French daily Le Monde published a piece that should have provoked a collective reaction far stronger than it managed:…
DECODING: Poland's White Book Exposes Putin's Invisible Arsenal Against the Baltic States
On June 16, 2026, in Luxembourg, before the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski laid an explosive dossier…
TESTIMONY: When the USA-Iran Deal Crashes Oil Prices — and Bleeds Russia's War Finances
In March 2026, global oil prices experienced their largest disruption in years. Iran had effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for US-Israeli…
NARRATIVE: Putin Says No — Why the Kremlin Master Refuses to Limit His Long-Range Missiles
In early June 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky did something unusual in the vocabulary of contemporary warfare: he wrote an open letter to his enemy. To…
ESSAY: Russia Struck Chornobyl and Rescue Vessels — Can We Still Speak of Red Lines
In the night of June 6–7, 2026, Russian forces launched 236 drones of types Shahed, Gerbera, and Italmas against Ukraine. Ukrainian forces shot down…
PROFILE: Putin's Russia — A War Economy Devouring Its Own Future in Q1 2026
In the first quarter of 2026, Russia devoted 5.9 trillion rubles — approximately $81.4 billion — to military spending. That figure represents 46% of…
INVESTIGATION: Russia's War Economy Reaches Its Limits — What the Kiel Report Says
Since 2022, one narrative has dominated discussions about Russia's economic resilience: Putin is holding, the sanctions are not working, the ruble is surviving, Russia's…
ANALYSIS: Russia engraves its North Korean soldiers into school textbooks — the propaganda of blood
In June 2026, Russia announced a revision of its single national history textbook — the book imposed in all Russian schools by personal decree…
COLUMN: A French NATO Jet Shoots Down a Ukrainian Drone Over Latvia — Russia Turns Our Allies into Targets
On June 8, 2026, a French NATO fighter jet deployed as part of the alliance's Baltic air policing mission in Latvia shot down a…