An olive branch to Moscow;
More signs of domestic discontent;
What Russian elites think about the war now;
Legalizing war crimes

Russia's war on Ukrainian education;
Another Kremlin critic jailed;
Russia's far right eyes future targets
Taking the fight to Wagner;
A helping hand from Capetown?;
Viktor Bouts' second act

Silencing soldiers' families;
A waning appetite for war;
Russia rails against international accountability;
Putin: No need for another draft - for now;
A skewed prisoner swap

The Prigozhin method of military recruitment;
Moscow is running out of missiles;
Moscow leans on Minsk;
Ukraine strikes back

Iran's quid pro quo to the Kremlin;
Russia's mounting war costs;
...Spur something of a fire sale;
Putin faces mounting discontent at home;
Evolving American perceptions of Russia threat, aid to Ukraine

Afghans contemplate fighting for the enemy;
Pentagon: Russia an "acute" threat to the homeland;
Moscow's subversion imperils Moldova;
The Russian ASAT threat

A framework for rebuilding Ukraine;
Teaching Russian students the world according to Moscow;
The ultimate penalty for Russian deserters

Chinese microchips are failing Moscow;
New tactics belie a different hand at the wheel of war;
Yet another German official compromised by the Kremlin;
In Russia, an underground ethnic protest movement emerges;
Israel recalibrates its Ukraine war policy

Cracks in the Kremlin consensus;
Western tech still fuels Putin's war machine;
Iran and the Russian war effort;
Putin consolidates power over Moscow-claimed territories

Rumblings in the military ranks;
...As ethnic minorities protest conscription;
Exploiting Africa to fund the Ukraine campaign;
Nationalizing Eastern energy;
Putin's newest conscripts