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ANALYSIS: Eighty billion in deficit — Putin's deadly arithmetic
The Kremlin has spent four years insisting that the Russian economy was holding up against Western sanctions with remarkable vitality. State-aligned newspapers published growth…
COMMENTARY: Testing Article 5 — why a Baltic state could trigger everything
There are questions that diplomats avoid raising publicly, because asking them amounts to admitting a fragility one would prefer not to exhibit. Here is…
ANALYSIS: Latvia alerts — drones and missiles, the hybrid war has already begun
Latvia is not a country that cries wolf. It is a NATO and European Union member state, with a civil intelligence service — the…
OPINION: Kaliningrad rehearses its strikes — the Russian threat on our doorstep
There are things the military does that civilians do not watch. Maneuvers. Exercises. "Operations rehearsals." That is precisely what Russia was doing on June…
DECODING: Russian provocation in the Baltics — the scenario NATO dreads
For months, this possibility had been circulating in the hallways of Western defense ministries — whispered, never officially stated, for fear of rattling markets…
OPINION: Is Trump abandoning us? The fear haunting NATO's eastern flank
In the diplomatic corridors of Tallinn, Riga, Warsaw, and Vilnius, there is a question everyone asks in private and no one wants to put…
REPORT: Kapotnya, again — Moscow's refinery struck twice in one week
Before 2024, the Kapotnya district was known to Muscovites mainly as a peripheral industrial zone — the place where the smell of fuel lingers,…
OPINION: Importing gasoline by ship — the energy collapse of Putin's empire
Some images are worth a thousand analyses. Here is mine, the image of summer 2026: Russia, the world's third-largest producer of crude oil, is…
DECODING: Why Moscow's refinery won't reopen before 2027
The agency Reuters, cited by Militarnyi on June 24, 2026, published an unambiguous assessment: the Moscow refinery, located in the Kapotnya district, is unlikely…