How the FSB is evolving;
A deepening science deficit;
Russia repositions after Assad;
Moscow's drone-enabled espionage

Persecuting Navalny, continued;
A shakeup in the Russian intelligence ranks;
Moscow looks to Africa;
Finland fights back;
Homegrown resistance to academic propaganda

Seeking a post-Assad Modus Vivendi;
Subverting Ukraine from the inside;
Another use for Russia's shadow fleet;
More tyranny of the law

Assad gets asylum in Moscow...;
...as Moscow scrambles to preserve its Syrian presence;
Prisoners to the (war) front;
NATO mobilizes versus Russia;
Nazi sentiment makes a comeback;
Kadyrov's clout grows

Kremlin worries over domestic unrest
Still more foreign fodder for Russia's war;
A delayed economic reckoning...;
...As Putin doubles down