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“Prosperity” kremlin-Style: russian Shops Begging for Rent Discounts

Over the course of a year, from July 2025 to June 2026, 2,300 shops and retail kiosks closed in moscow’s shopping centers alone. Empty halls in shopping centers are becoming a new everyday symbol of the “success” of russia’s economy, which is paying a high price for the kremlin’s military adventure.
8/14/2026
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“Get Out of Africa”: Bishop of Tanzania Has Accused the russian orthodox church of Bribery and Schism

Bishop Chrysostomos of Bukoba and Western Tanzania, who belongs to the Patriarchate of Alexandria, has publicly accused the russian orthodox church of bribing local clergy and deliberately causing a schism within African Orthodoxy.
8/14/2026
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A Wave of Corporate Defaults Is Sweeping Across russia

A wave of defaults continues in russia’s corporate bond market. In the first half of 2026, 21 companies experienced difficulties servicing their bonds and digital financial assets for the first time – a 40% increase from last year.
8/14/2026
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How the KGB Tried to Obstruct Events Honoring Yevhen Konovalets

A series of documents has been discovered in the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine detailing how the kgb of the ussr, at various times, monitored events organized by the Ukrainian diaspora to honor the memory of OUN leader Yevhen Konovalets and attempted to obstruct them in every possible way.
8/14/2026
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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Japan is strongly protesting russian dictator putin’s visit to the disputed island of Etorofu, which russia refers to as Iturup.
8/13/2026
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russia Is Pushing to Create a “Shadow Fleet" for LNG

russia is speeding up the creation of a “shadow fleet” to transport liquefied natural gas (LNG) in preparation for the European Union’s complete ban on russian LNG imports, which will take effect on January 1, 2027.
8/13/2026
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The Decline in Production Is No Longer the kremlin’s Only Problem

In July 2026, russia’s economy showed a further deterioration in financial activity. The hardest-hit sectors were the extractive industry, petroleum product manufacturing, and public administration.
8/13/2026
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russians Have Begun Voting Against Propaganda with Their Rubles

A paradoxical situation is unfolding in the market: every year, the government spends colossal sums on domestic cinema, budgets are constantly growing, yet ratings are falling with equal consistency.
8/13/2026
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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

The growing “deficit” in the rf’s budget is fueling business concerns that taxes will rise again next year – for the third year in a row. 27% of companies consider an increase in the tax burden to be the most likely risk in the near term.
8/12/2026
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moscow Paying an Increasing Price for Its “Everlasting Friendship” with Beijing

“rosstandart”’s ban on the sale and distribution in russia of a number of Chinese truck models from the Dongfeng, Foton, FAW, and Sitrak brands calls into question the strength of the “friendly relations” between moscow and Beijing.
8/12/2026
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The russians Will Burn Through Millions of Rubles Just to Launch Their Own Tax Agency’s Website

Due to the mass revocation of GlobalSign’s international security certificates, russian websites are being cut off from the civilized internet. Currently, the websites of government agencies (the federal tax service) and major banks simply refuse to load in standard global browsers.
8/12/2026
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The “Degradation Quota”: Privileged Veterans of the War Against Ukraine Are Displacing russian Youth from Universities

What is most interesting is that the majority of war veterans and their children admitted to the top universities in the rf would not have been able to enroll at all without the “separate” quota. For example, at the voronezh medical institute, as many as 93% of those admitted under the separate quota based on the results of the unified state exam would not have been admitted without it.
8/12/2026
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Russia Is Preparing Mobilization for the Fall, Right After the Imitation of Parliamentary Elections – Address by the President

The Russian contingent in Ukraine is losing at least 30,000 personnel every month, 60 percent of them killed. The total size of the occupation army on our land has been gradually decreasing – thanks to our active operations and, above all, our use of drones.
8/12/2026
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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Chairman of the Bundestag’s (Germany) parliamentary oversight committee Mark Heinrichmann (CDU) is proposing to grant German intelligence agencies the authority to carry out preemptive cyberattacks against russian drone manufacturers.
8/11/2026
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The Campaign Against “wildberries” Has Destroyed a 1.3 Trillion Ruble Pyramid Scheme

The campaign against “wildberries”’ warehouses – which resulted in at least 14 of the company’s logistics hubs being burnt down – destroyed the business model of russia’s largest marketplace, which annually sold goods worth 3% of the country’s GDP.
8/11/2026
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Ukrainian Emigrants Under the Total Control of the kgb

Declassified documents from the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine reveal the areas and criteria used to monitor Ukrainians abroad, how and for what purposes information was collected, analyzed, and reported to party authorities.
8/11/2026
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There Will Be More Ukrainian Deep Strikes, Which Should Demonstrate to Russia and the Russians That Peace Is Necessary – Address by the President

We are taking all the necessary steps to make our deep strikes and our Ukrainian mid-range sanctions plan work as effectively as possible.
8/11/2026
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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

The European Union has allocated an additional EUR 30 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund.
8/10/2026
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russia’s Banking Crisis Will Hit belarus Harder than It Will Hit russia

A banking crisis in belarus will hardly begin at the same time as the one in russia. However, due to the country’s dependence on russia’s economy, its consequences could prove to be significantly more severe and prolonged.
8/10/2026
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While the kremlin Finances the War, Thousands of russian Schools Are Left Without Water and Heat

As the kremlin continues to ruin the country’s economy with unprecedented spending on the war against Ukraine, on September 1, russian children will once again return to schools without heating or a centralized water supply.
8/10/2026