Throwing the wounded back onto the front;
Wagner makes gains...
...And garners new sanctions...
..As a defector threatens to spill the beans;
How Russia is still fighting in Ukraine

A domestic resistance rises;
The Kremlin redraws the map;
Medvedev wants to punish "traitors;"
Estonia eyes Russian assets;
Moscow has money to burn

Russia's new naval intimidation;
Criminal conscripts prepare to return home;
Russian hackers take aim at U.S. nuclear scientists;
Russia eyes reinforcements for its Ukraine fight;
The mounting costs of Moscow's campaign;
Protectionism, Kremlin style

Putin ramps up wartime propaganda;
Gaming Moscow's munitions;
How Russia's economy weathered the past year;
Another military reshuffle in Moscow

Ukraine braces for a new offensive;
Russia seeks an alternative in the Americas...
...And formulates an answer to the west's price cap;
Moscow conspires to keep its new territories weak