New European measures to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet could severely hurt its economy at a time when it is looking increasingly vulnerable.

With America disengaging, Russia may be ready for a new war much sooner than previously estimated.

It has crippled Russia’s flagship energy industry, depleted t Wealth Fund, and impoverished the Russian countryside, ...

European allies and Canada are pouring billions of dollars into helping Ukraine, and they have pledged to massively boost their budgets to defend their territories. But despite those efforts, NATO’s ...

Europe has realized that engaging Tehran without leverage, interlocutors or credible pathways to change is unsustainable. But ...

Politicians speak of “mutual concessions” as a path to peace. Intelligence asserts: such compromises are not peace, but a pause before a new war and a higher price.

From Insurgent Notes #25, January 2023. Wars and crises, in suspending normality and reminding both of the suffering sustaining capitalism and its fragility, have always inspired hope among the ...

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hold high-level talks, signing multiple agreements and ...

Xi’s statement came three weeks after the seventh round of China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue, to ...

Peak inflation values of January 2026 will hardly appear again, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank Alexey Zabotkin added ...

A deep look at the Ukraine war in 2026, Russia’s strained war economy, shrinking fiscal buffers, oil revenue pressure, and why peace talks reveal weakening leverage rather than momentum.

Russian missiles and drones have pounded Ukraine’s energy grid in recent weeks. That has plunged people into frozen darkness ...