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russia’s Pension System Is Creaking at the Seams Under the Weight of the War: the Fund’s Deficit Has Tripled

The pension crisis is just one aspect of a broader collapse. Regional budget deficits have reached a record $19.49 billion, and the total shortfall in resources across the entire russian budget system is estimated at $107.83 billion for the year. The fund is increasingly functioning not for its intended purpose, but as an internal financial buffer for the government – a tool for concealing the true scale of the deficit.
4/18/2026
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The kremlin Is Finally Claiming the Right to Shape a Child’s Personality

Psychologists point out that the system of child-rearing in “putin’s new russia” is being built according to a single standard. And if a child’s worldview goes beyond what is permitted, the collective mind will simply crush all impulses, forcing the individual into an established mold.
4/18/2026
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The Visits This Week Were Specifically about Ensuring That in the Spring and Summer We Can Maintain Ukraine’s Resilience and Strength – Address by the President

Virtually every day, at both the political and military levels, we are in communication with our partners to strengthen air defense. We are seeking anti-ballistic capabilities. Most importantly, we are moving toward conditions in which we will be able to produce air defense in Ukraine and together with our partners – all the necessary formats, systems, missiles, and so on.
4/17/2026
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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

European Commissioner for Defense and Space Andrius Kubilius believes that the existing legal framework for European defense is insufficient and that a European Defense Union should be created, which should include Ukraine, among others.
4/17/2026
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russia Is Drowning in Debt: Corporate Defaults Have Reached the Level of the Crisis of 2008

russian businesses are sinking deeper and deeper into a debt quagmire. Overdue accounts receivable in the corporate sector have risen by 26% – from $79.3 billion to $100 billion – and their share of the total has reached 10.3%. This is the worst figure since the global financial crisis of 2008–2009.
4/17/2026
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russia’s Scientific Decline Has Hit Rock Bottom

The share of spending on civilian science in russia has fallen to a decade-low. While 0.58% of GDP was allocated to science in 2013, by 2021 the figure had dropped to 0.47%, and in 2024–2025 – to approximately 0.36%. This represents a 25% reduction from the already modest pre-war levels.
4/17/2026
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russians Will No Longer Be Able to Choose News

russians are being subjected to a total information vacuum: instead of any opportunity to independently choose sources of information, they will be fed carefully filtered state-controlled content wherever they spend time online.
4/17/2026
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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Ukraine has received a tranche of 752 million pounds sterling (approximately $1 billion) from the United Kingdom as part of the G7 Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration for Ukraine (ERA) initiative to strengthen Ukraine’s defense capabilities.
4/16/2026
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moscow Legalizing the Recruiting Pressing Machine

The state duma plans to adopt amendments to the Code of administrative offences – a draft law introduced by the government at the initiative of the ministry of internal affairs in March 2026. The document expands the list of offences for which foreign nationals and stateless persons may be subject to administrative expulsion.
4/16/2026
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Necromancy Has Become a Form of State Analytics in russia

A pro-government russian socio-political publication has published a “posthumous interview” with vladimir zhirinovsky. The editorial team contacted a medium, who “summon the spirit” of the politician – and the spirit, without any unnecessary formalities, commented on the timing of the end of wars, assured readers that a global conflict was impossible, and advised them to plant potatoes.
4/16/2026
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medvedev Has Turned His Attention to Textbooks: russia Is Shaping the “Correct” Mindset of Schoolchildren

The ministry of education of the rf is not even trying to hide the fact that medvedev personally edited the texts, making amendments that were subsequently incorporated not only into the textbooks but also into federal educational standards. In fact, this constitutes the political leadership’s direct interference in the content of school education.
4/16/2026
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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Germany will finance a contract between Ukraine and the US company Raytheon for the supply of several hundreds of missiles for Patriot air defence systems.
4/15/2026
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moscow Paying for the Caucasus’ Loyalty with Siberian Oil

As of early March 2026, subsidies from russia’s federal budget to the regions had increased by 23.8% compared to the same period in 2025. The figures reveal a systemic transfer of resources from productive regions to politically sensitive republics, where the actual contribution to the country’s economy is close to zero.
4/15/2026
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russia Cannot Afford Drinking Water

Every ninth resident of russia still lacks access to high-quality drinking water from centralized systems – and given the rate at which the networks are deteriorating, this figure will only worsen in the coming years.
4/15/2026
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russia Drowning in Sanctions: Internal Estimates Reveal Catastrophic Losses

In 2022–2025 alone, russia was forced to spend additional $130 billion – about $32.5 billion annually – to circumvent sanctions and purchase banned Western goods that it previously bought much cheaper directly from the West.
4/15/2026
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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

“Sanctions are having an impact. And, looking to the future, they will have a significant impact on the development of the russian economy,” said Director of Latvia's Constitution Protection Bureau Egils Zvedris.
4/14/2026
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Teeth Care As a Luxury: The War Has Turned russia’s Dentistry into a Market for Self-Treatment and Shadow Clinics

Sales of “home dentistry” products on russian e-commerce platforms have risen by 60% over the past three months, reaching nearly 40 million rubles. Temporary fillings account for the lion’s share of demand – 58% – with veneers making up the remaining 28%.
4/14/2026
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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

Cyprus’ EU Presidency will seek to resolve the issue of allocation of a EUR 90 billion loan to Ukraine as quickly as possible and to adopt the 20th package of sanctions against russia following Péter Magyar’s election victory in Hungary.
4/13/2026
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russia's Economy Has Officially Entered a Recession

The institute for economic forecasting has been consistently revising its estimates downward since November 2025. While the growth forecast for 2026 was +1.2% at that time, today’s figure stands at -0.6%. Each successive revision only deepens the negative picture.
4/13/2026
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How the OUN Security Service Uncovered in Its Ranks a Valuable Agent of the mgb of the Ukrainian ssr

Among the documents in the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, a number of files have been found detailing how, at various times, the nkvd / mgb / kgb of the ussr made considerable efforts to infiltrate the most secretive structures of Ukrainian émigré organizations abroad.
4/13/2026