Russia Policy Monitor No. 2723
Oil shipment refocuses attention on Russian spy hub;
Moscow's energy windfall illusion;
The Kremlin's hybrid war continues;
Russo-Iranian nuke ties hit by new war
Oil shipment refocuses attention on Russian spy hub;
Moscow's energy windfall illusion;
The Kremlin's hybrid war continues;
Russo-Iranian nuke ties hit by new war
Russia's demographic crisis gets deeper;
The Kremlin expands its digital crackdown;
Moscow eyes Afghan labor;
The Kremlin rewrites Russian history
Russia's crumbling state;
Russia shares intel with Iran...;
...As Iranian drones head in the other direction;
Network of "disposable agents" conducts sabotage in Europe;
FSB expands elite protection
Moscow weighs its options in the Arctic;
Teen labor fuels Russia's drone production;
Kremlin documents reveal the human cost of the war;
Russia's shrinking arms trade
Iran is pounding U.S. military positions across the Middle East with missiles and cheap but highly effective drones, killing U.S. troops and wreaking havoc across the Persian Gulf. The cost to the U.S. of its defensive systems far exceeds the cost of Iran’s drones, and America and its regional partners are burning through their air defenses.