Russia's aviation industry starts to eat itself;
Arms control a casualty of the Ukraine war?;
More Russian nuclear blackmail;
Wooing allies through arms sales;
Russia's military has a manpower problem

Moscow's political power play;
A turnaround in Turkey?;
Language as a battlefield;
Another reason the Kremlin covets Ukraine

Deportations, "filtration camps" key to the Kremlin's plans;
How Wagner is winning;
The Turkish role in Ukraine's war effort

The return of Russian disinformation;
Jerusalem weighs in with the Kremlin;
Russia's convict army;
The true state of Russia's economy

Russia's increasingly criminal war;
Moscow's "Twin Cities" program a soft attempt at integration;
How Putin plans to reshape Russian society in his image;
Tokyo takes a stand