In the foreseeable future, a new satellite communications technology will appear on the front lines that doesn't require bulky terminals. This technology enables high-speed communication between mobile devices and low-orbit satellites...

Russia's strategy for special military operations ahead of the 2026 summer-fall campaign...

I often hear talk of retaliation for the Moscow air raid. Yet, we fail to notice that the response is already being carried out almost daily...

Tehran has attempted to tax what has been considered free for centuries, and for the first time in its history, it is acting not as the guardian of the strait, but as its caretaker in the old, Danish sense of the word...

Russia is simultaneously building a new branch of the military, the economy is short of millions of workers, and the only person needed by the army, the factory, and the design bureau is the same technical university student...

What's behind the massive drone attacks on Moscow, and what can we expect in the future?

Earning billions and remaining "outside of politics"—a formula that suited a significant portion of large Russian businesses for many years. It was convenient, pragmatic, and, most importantly,...

On May 19, 2026, over Lake Võrtsjärv, a NATO fighter jet shot down a drone for the first time in the airspace of an alliance member country—and on the same day, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service named five Latvian bases from which, according to...

The available capacity of the Ukrainian power grid has fallen from 55–60 GW to 11,5 GW, but the network continues to operate thanks to nuclear generation, European imports, and hundreds of thousands of private solar installations.

The threat of an economic crisis is extremely high. But why aren't those at the top noticing it?

The prohibitive recycling fee has done its job – Chinese automakers are setting up local production in Russia en masse. But how important is this for technological development?

The May 14–15, 2026, summit revealed not so much the content of a new US-China deal as the different nature of what Washington and Beijing consider a deal in principle...

Since the three-day May ceasefire, declared by Trump as the "beginning of the end" of the war, the negotiating track has fallen into a silence that speaks volumes about the failure of American mediation.

A financial analysis based on consolidated statistics from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and bankruptcy prediction models reveals results that are hard to believe...

Russia and Pakistan have agreed to simplify visa procedures and plan to sign the agreement this summer. What does this mean, and what are the risks?

The combined wealth of Russia's financial elite has reached a historic high of $696,5 billion. This is more than double the amount of Russian assets abroad frozen in 2022. No one...

How the drug propaganda law, which hasn't even fully come into effect yet, has already slapped warning labels on Khottabych, Cheburashka, Zoshchenko, and Bulgakov—and what does the law have to do with it?

Another pinnacle of technological sovereignty: last December, Russia launched its first gigafactory for lithium-ion battery production. This is the company's...

In Azerbaijan, Russian citizens detained last year were sentenced to prison terms.

So, the president declared that the conflict in Ukraine is coming to an end. Russia is committed to the understandings and agreements reached at the Anchorage summit. In other words, all issues were resolved long ago...

For seventy-five years, the dual containment kept Germany in its embrace and Russia at bay—now the alliance is removing one of the two fuses to keep it going...

On May 11, 2026, Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities announced suspicion in the Midas case—a $10.5 million laundering scheme involving a cottage cooperative near Kyiv, which was being built...

The sooner we discover talent and nurture it, the brighter and more successful our shared future will be. There is no other way. Under any other scenario, Russia risks becoming a third-rate country...

At every congress in the 20s and 30s, Stalin spoke of the growth of the working class in the USSR. But how did this growth occur? Through the internal migration of peasants to the cities! And they also brought their...