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The kremlin Has Driven Small Businesses to Mass Defaults

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in the rf are rapidly deteriorating. The credit quality of the SME segment is crumbling so quickly that even the banks that managed to lend money to these borrowers are feeling the consequences.
7/17/2026
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In russia, the Defense Industry Is Being Punished for a Lack of People Willing to Fight Drones

russia has found a new way to torment its own industry – fining strategic enterprises for failing to recruit enough “volunteer” workers to protect their workshops from drones.
7/17/2026
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Whatever the Scenario, Ukraine Must Be Fully Prepared to Protect Lives and Its People and Ensure That We Make It Through the Winter – Address by the President

We also had a good meeting today with the Foreign Minister of Türkiye – another important show of support. Türkiye confirms that it will do everything possible to facilitate a meeting at the leaders’ level to end this war. Every day, we are fully engaged internationally to ensure that Ukraine stands firm and remains able to defend itself.
7/17/2026
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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

“…The United Kingdom, together with Sweden, will provide EUR 300 million in support for the delivery of 16 new, state-of-the-art aircraft that will help defend Ukraine’s airspace,” said UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
7/16/2026
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Wizards and Magicians Have Stepped In to Tackle russia’s Fuel Crisis

The fuel crisis in russia is escalating. In many regions, drivers are forced to wait in line around the clock just to fill up with 10–20 liters of petrol. The quality of the fuel hasn’t even been an issue lately.
7/16/2026
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russia’s “Soft Power” Shattering Against the Arctic Ice

russia’s plans to expand its presence on Svalbard by increasing tourist traffic, as always, are turning into yet another round of empty statements from kremlin officials. moscow simply has no vessels to transport those tourists. ceo of the “arktikugol” trust ildar neverov has stated this openly.
7/16/2026
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Currency Panic: Demand for the Dollar in russia Has Surged 12-Fold

The second quarter of 2026 revealed just how fragile financial confidence remains within putin’s economy. Despite years of rhetoric about giving up “unfriendly” currencies, russians rushed to buy up dollars and euros with an intensity reminiscent of a panic reaction to an obvious threat.
7/16/2026
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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

The German defense company Rheinmetall has delivered to Ukraine the first batch of 155-millimeter artillery ammunition, manufactured at the company’s new plant in Unterlüs.
7/15/2026
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moscow Is Offsetting the Drop in Profits with Massive Fiscal Pressure

According to the results of the first quarter of 2026, russia’s federal budget received $13.04 billion in corporate income tax, which is by 29.37% more than a year ago.
7/15/2026
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russia Is Completing the Iron Curtain for Its Own Internet

Experts describe the new restrictions as another step toward implementing the “sovereign internet” concept promoted by the kremlin – the complete centralization of control over internet traffic, regardless of the telecom provider or connection method.
7/15/2026
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Fuel Shortage Threatens Harvest in russia

The pace of the harvest is lagging behind last year’s nearly 3-fold. As of July 1, only 1.3–1.5 million hectares had been threshed in russia, compared to 4.2–4.6 million hectares on the same date in 2025.
7/15/2026
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Yurii Boiko-Blokhin and His Full of Trials Path to the Statehood of the Ukrainian Nation

Documents on the  operational cultivation of   prominent Ukrainian scholar, public and political figure, theorist of Ukrainian nationalism, Yurii Boiko-Blokhin abroad, shed light on why the kgb / mgb of the ussr paid such close attention specifically to scientists – historians, linguists, literary scholars, and archaeologists.
7/15/2026
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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Chancellor of the FRG Friedrich Merz has stated that the security guarantees Ukraine will receive after the war with russia ends will be determined by Kyiv and its allies. moscow will not participate in the process.
7/14/2026
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The kremlin Is Turning Fines Into a New Source of Oil: the rf’s Budget Is Relying on Repression

The state budget of the rf is shifting to new “high-tech” sources of funding. kremlin bureaucrats have decided to no longer tie the state treasury solely to global oil prices, but instead to rely on penalties and fines imposed on violators of all kinds of rules and regulations.
7/14/2026
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The volga, the Color of Poison: putin’s River Restoration Project Drowned in Corruption

Nearly 127 billion rubles from taxpayers’ pockets were allocated to save russia’s main waterway, funds for which   local officials have already “found use” without a hitch. However, instead of a clean river, russians ended up with a green swamp.
7/14/2026
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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

The government of the FRG has allocated EUR 90 million to finance the purchase of 50,000 Ukrainian Shrike drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
7/13/2026
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belarus Is Training a Generation of Unskilled Workers Instead of Engineers

Over the past five years, the number of students enrolled in community colleges and vocational schools has increased by 17.4% and 8.6%, respectively, while the number of undergraduate students has plummeted fourfold.
7/13/2026
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russia Has Lost Its Ability to Maintain Its Previous Pace of Recruitment for the War

The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine has noted a number of distinctive peculiarities of this year’s campaign to recruit contract soldiers for the armed forces of the rf to participate in combat operations against Ukraine.
7/13/2026
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The kremlin Is Preparing russia for a Wave of Corporate Bankruptcies

Authorities have effectively acknowledged the failure of the current system: in 2025, external administration was applied in only 51 cases, financial rehabilitation – in only eight, and rehabilitation procedures accounted for less than 1% of all corporate bankruptcies.
7/13/2026
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In russia, Brands Are Being Stolen Even from “Fraternal” China

While the kremlin proclaims a strategic partnership with Beijing, russian entrepreneurs have no qualms about stealing their partners’ intellectual property, creating clone websites and blocking genuine brands from entering the market.
7/13/2026