Russia's incredible shrinking military modernization;

The National Guard: more than national

Putin's new praetorian guard;

Ceding the Russian Far East

The unnoticed Ukrainian migrant crisis;

Putin's finances: do as I say, not as I do

Paranoia in the Kremlin as elections approach;

Russia's sly nuclear build-up

Kadyrov gets a stay of political execution;

The dollars and cents of Russia's Syria intervention