Czechs Demand Explanation After Russia's Medvedev Threatens Europe's Drone Factories The Czech Republic demanded an explanation after Russia’s Defense Ministry published a list of companies it claimed are helping produce attack drones for Ukraine and bellicose former Russian President...

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Knives Out 2.0. What's Going On At Russia’s Defense Ministry? In its war on Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry is on the offensive in the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II. Internally, it’s plagued by corruption, political infighting, firings, and bi...

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Everyone Wants Ukraine’s Drones. This German Joint Venture Is Trying To Get Ahead Of The Curve In a non-descript warehouse on the perimeters of a Munich-area airport, a joint venture is marrying Ukrainian expertise with German capital, building drones for Ukraine’s military – and eventually glo...

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On Ukraine's Battlefield, Spring Weather, New Fighting Season, A Big Russian Assault After a bitter winter, there’s been uptick in battlefield operations by both Ukraine and Russia in recent weeks. Ukraine says it defeated a major mechanized Russian assault last week – but it’s unclea...

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The Mess With Max, Telegram, And More: Russians' Patience Tested By Online Troubles Authorities have spent years testing tools, building apps, trying to restrict how Russian use the Internet. Widespread Internet outages, and widespread confusion over messaging apps, is testing Russia...

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Out Of Office: A New Twist In Kremlin Efforts To Conceal Putin's Location In November, Systema revealed that the Kremlin was obscuring Putin's location by using three nearly identical offices in different parts of Russia. Until March 18, however, the Kremlin had posted no f...

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In The US War On Iran, Russia Is A Winner (Mostly) The US-Israeli war on Iran has yielded some clear benefits for Russia: more oil revenues; fewer US weapons for Kyiv; a distraction from the Ukraine peace talks. But it isn’t all good for Moscow.

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Cartoons For Kids, Cash For Iran, Weapons For Houthis: A Web Woven In Moscow The principals behind two Moscow-based animated film studios -- one an Iranian man, the other the son of a former Afghan diplomat -- appear to be involved shadowy business interests, and possibly espi...

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A Mysterious Signal Transfixes Radio Sleuths -- And Intelligence Experts The mysterious Persian-language transmission began about 12 hours after the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. It was jammed five days later. Is it a coded message for US agents in...

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For Iran's Isolated Turkmen Minority, War Brings Hope And Trepidation Across Turkmensahra, a poor and isolated region in northeastern Iran along the Caspian Sea and the border with Turkmenistan, war brings tight security, price hikes, and a mixture of hope and concern a...

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Exclusive: Kremlin Office Plants Prove Putin's Absence As Iran War Heats Up On March 2-3, the Kremlin published videos showing him meeting with officials and indicated the footage was fresh. In fact, both meetings were recorded earlier, Systema, RFE/RL’s Russian investigative...

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Air Defenses Add To Evidence Of Russian Oreshnik Missile Deployment In Belarus An analysis of satellite images captured by Planet Labs suggests that six installations of systems designed to protect facilities against attacks from the air now ring a site where Russia may have dep...

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Zelenskyy Calls For Strong Security Guarantees Against 'Slave To War' Putin Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an impassioned plea for more Western weapons and for "real security guarantees," calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a "slave to war" who will th...

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Satellite Imagery Points To Possible Russian Oreshnik Missile Site In Belarus A fresh satellite image obtained by RFE/RL shows that the development of a military installation is proceeding apace at a former Soviet airfield in Belarus. The image shows what may be vehicles from a...

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Russia's Starlink Setback: Will Moscow Snap Back From A New Battlefield Blow In Ukraine? The loss of access to Starlink satellite Internet service comes at a crucial time in Russia's war on Ukraine. As Moscow scrambles for short-term fixes and longer-term alternatives for battlefield comm...

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Seth G. Jones: Kremlin Trying Hard To 'Hide The Actual Number' Of Russian Troops Killed In Ukraine The Kremlin has made "every effort" to hide the high number of deaths among Russian troops in Ukraine, where their slow advance has come at the cost of some 1.2 million casualties, Seth G. Jones of th...

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What happens when you drunk-text the FBI about Russian spies and prostitutes at 4 a.m.? The curious case of Nomma Zarubina. — Meduza In this week’s episode, host Kevin Rothrock sits down with RFE/RL senior international correspondent Mike Eckel to discuss his January 28 investigation into the bizarre case of Nomma Zarubina: The…

Journalist @mikeeckel.bsky.social joins the Naked Pravda to unpack his investigation into Nomma Zarubina. Her Manhattan case highlights the blurry legal line between cultural networking and illegal foreign influence, amplified by a spiral of erratic behavior. meduza.io/en/episodes/...

What happens when you drunk-text the FBI about Russian spies and prostitutes at 4 a.m.? The curious case of Nomma Zarubina. — Meduza In this week’s episode, host Kevin Rothrock sits down with RFE/RL senior international correspondent Mike Eckel to discuss his January 28 investigation into the bizarre case of Nomma Zarubina: The FSB...

Happy to welcome back to the pod @mikeeckel.bsky.social to discuss his recent Nomma Zarubina article. Her case is interesting for the sheer oddness of her meltdown, but it also raises some important questions about "cross-cultural promotion" in a world of FSB handlers. meduza.io/en/episodes/...

Strangled In Siberia: Deep Inside Russia, The Violent Echoes Of Moscow's War On Ukraine A Russian man repeatedly convicted of violent crimes is accused of strangling a woman to death after returning from the war in Ukraine and stalking his wife as she sought shelter. The killing is a gri...

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Strangled In Siberia: Deep Inside Russia, The Violent Echoes Of Moscow's War On Ukraine A Russian man repeatedly convicted of violent crimes is accused of strangling a woman to death after returning from the war in Ukraine and stalking his wife as she sought shelter. The killing is a gri...

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Faces Behind The Numbers: People Killed In Iran’s Protests Thousands of Iranians lost their lives after taking to the streets. These are the people behind the statistics.

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'Ukraine Is Not Losing, Russia Is Not Winning': Amid Push For Peace, Here's How Things Look On The Battlefield Weeks before the start of the fifth year of its all-out war, Russia is having more success obliterating Ukraine’s energy systems than it is securing any decisive battlefield victory. Ukraine’s exhaust...

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Game Of (Chechen) Thrones: With Kadyrov’s Health In Doubt, Succession Is On Everyone’s Mind Moscow-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s health is in question, and speculation about succession is rife. The Kremlin wants to keep Chechnya quiet, especially amid the war on Ukraine. Kadyrov wan...

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A 'War Of Obsession' Days after Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, casualties are mounting and the prospects for productive negotiations are uncertain. Where might the war be hea...

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