How Russia hides the true cost of its foreign wars;

An expanding footprint in the Arctic

Russia in the Middle East: there to stay;

Belated recognition for Jewish veterans

Whitewashing Stalin's purges;

Soviet nostalgia rears its head anew

Russia digs in in Syria;

Expanding the definition of "

foreign agent"

The Russian threat to NATO connectivity;

In post-conflict Syria, the advantage goes to Russia