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NewsSweden recovers anchor of Eagle S, Russian shadow fleet tanker suspected of rupturing cable between Estonia and Finland8 January 2025
NewsRussian court orders IT company Yandex to hide maps and photographs of oil refinery due to Ukrainian drone attacks4 January 2025
NewsFinland’s power grid operator asks court to seize Russian shadow fleet tanker Eagle S after undersea cable damage 2 January 2025
NewsWeekly Russia-Ukraine war summary: Pokrovsk assault “on hold” with Russia close to taking Kurakhove, Azerbaijani plane hit over Chechnya28 December 2024
NewsSpy equipment found on Russian “shadow fleet” tanker detained in Finland after undersea cable damage28 December 2024
NewsPutin apologizes to Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev over plane crash, stops short of admitting Russia’s guilt28 December 2024
NewsAzerbaijan Airlines confirms Baku-Grozny flight encountered “physical and technical external interference” prior to crash in Kazakhstan27 December 2024
NewsPropaganda video depicts Russian air defenses shooting down Santa Claus over the Kremlin27 December 2024
NewsKremlin-backed channels ignore international media reports of Azerbaijan Airlines flight likely being shot down by Russian air defenses26 December 2024
NewsStepdaughter of Russia’s ex-Deputy Defense minister linked to Italian winery supplying Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine 26 December 2024
NewsThree underwater cables severed between Finland and Estonia, Russian shadow fleet tanker detained 26 December 2024
NewsAzerbaijani government sources confirm passenger jet downed by Russian missile, Euronews reports26 December 2024
NewsIranian oil tycoon, son of advisor to Ayatollah Khamenei, facilitates weapons shipments to Russia via the Caspian Sea, Bloomberg reports24 December 2024
NewsMoscow court sentences Russian-born U.S. citizen to 15 years in prison for espionage24 December 2024
NewsRussian vessel Ursa Major sinks in Mediterranean, reportedly while en route to withdraw military assets from Syria24 December 2024
NewsFrench-British satellite operator broadcasts Kremlin propaganda and military recruitment ads to Russia and occupied Ukraine23 December 2024
NewsSlovak prime minister visits Kremlin to discuss Zelensky’s rejection of Russian gas transit23 December 2024
NewsWeekly Russia-Ukraine war summary: North Korean troops storm Ukrainian positions in Kursk, Russia attempts to create a “pocket” in Kurakhove21 December 2024
NewsRussian disinfo network “Matryoshka” is migrating to Bluesky as exodus from X continues20 December 2024
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NewsRussia’s Rosatom uses equipment from its “Chinese friends” in place of German-made Siemens systems for nuclear power plant project in Turkey19 December 2024
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NewsPoland sentences Russian hockey player to three years in prison for espionage, deportation set for mid-202518 December 2024
NewsRussia’s Black Sea beaches flooded with oil from two wrecked tankers as Greenpeace points to rising risks from Moscow’s “shadow fleet”18 December 2024
News“Narrow misses” with the enemy and battles with bushes: A closer look at Kadyrov’s troops as Putin hands their leader yet another award17 December 2024
NewsProsecution requests terms of over 5 years in prison for Alexei Navalny’s lawyers on charges of alleged “extremism”17 December 2024
POLITICSInvestigations by The Insider laid the groundwork for EU sanctions against Kremlin saboteurs, propagandists, and smugglers16 December 2024The Insider
NewsNew EU sanctions target spies, saboteurs, and other organizers of the Kremlin’s hybrid operations exposed by The Insider16 December 2024