Russia saw a surge in consumer spending after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, even as sweeping sanctions hit the economy.

Russia is teetering on the edge of economic collapse as a result of systematic Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries, a Russian propagandist has warned. Meanwhile, the leader of the puppet regime installed by Vladimir Putin in Crimea has said fuel can no ...

Russia’s top privatization official has overseen a system that funneled major state assets to businessmen close to the Kremlin, including billionaire Arkady Rotenberg, the exiled investigative outlet The Insider reported Monday.

On 4 March 2025 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the European Readiness 2030, an EUR800 billion (USD896 billion) plan to strengthen Europe's defence capabilities. This report reviews Russia's responses to the plan over the March ...

Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine there has been a surge in murky actions across the West, including cyberattacks, arson and drone incursions. Not all of these incidents have been attributed to Russia,

Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have suggested that the Kremlin is exerting pressure on Russia's Central Bank over high interest rates to curb inflation driven by its war against Ukraine. On 23 March, a Russian insider source reported ...

Russia's seaborne oil exports have declined since October. Sanctions have tightened on Russia's oil business, with more restrictions on seaborne trade. Russia's oil revenue, a crucial component of its war budget, dropped 24% in 2023. Russia's seaborne oil ...

Two of Russia’s heavy-hitting analytical institutions have recently admitted in a 46-page report titled “Russia’s Living Idea-Dream” that Russia has no ideology and thus no identity. More alarmingly, it states that nations without ideologies and ...

Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have pointed out that a series of Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities is part of a broader campaign aimed at freezing Ukraine in the winter and coercing Ukraine and the West into making ...

Markets are responding to the potential for the Russia-Ukraine conflict to soon end. Russian stocks and the ruble got a boost after Trump called Putin last week about the war. Betting markets and the US stock market also showed a rise in optimism that the ...

Vladislav Klyushin was having, by any measure, an awful day. The judge in his case had brushed aside his lawyers’ arguments and his friends’ appeals for leniency. She handed down a tough sentence: nine more years in US federal prison, on top of an ...