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As Russia’s invasion falters, Putin boasts of imaginary victories

Russian arrested for spying on Nato bases

How Russia tries to recruit women into war by promising to write off their debt

EU Enlargement: Between Geopolitical Ambition and Economic Reality

Russia’s Hybrid Campaign Against Georgia: Motives, Methods, and Actors

After the "elections" – negotiations? What lies behind Moscow's signals?

Russia's banks head for a record $51bn year as corporate credit losses build

Sweden warns that Putin's robot army is targeting German and French elections

Russian region offers record $18,000 reward for recruiting foreigners to fight in Ukraine

UNDP and Adaptation Fund launch US$5 million initiative to scale locally led climate adaptation innovation across the Western Balkans

"Cultural exchange": Russia sends children from occupied Ukrainian territories to summer camp in North Korea

Ukraine Rethinks Mine Clearance for a New Age

Hungary orders 10 Russian diplomats to leave country over 'unacceptable' activities

Putin has found a new reason to talk about peace

€30 million EU grant boosts EIB support for district heating in Ukraine

China secretly supplied Russia with components for killer drones

Before the decisive attack? What was the summer like on the front for Ukraine and Russia, and what will autumn bring

EU targets camp in North Korea where Russia sends kidnapped Ukrainian children

EU or Eurasia: Why Putin sparred with Armenia’s PM

Is Ukraine’s Next Target to Shut Down Russia’s Commercial Airspace?

A New Chance for a Wider EU: What the Emerging Enlargement Debate Reveals about Europe's Future

US Renews Ukraine Peace Push, But Former Ambassadors See No Breakthrough

Danish intelligence says Russia preparing sabotage attacks against defense industry

Intelligence service says it has identified ‘concrete examples’ of Russia attempting to recruit ordinary Danes through social media and other online platforms

Ahead of the State Duma Elections: The Results Will Be Decided in the Kremlin

Mobilization "in the red": how the Russian Federation is trying to compensate for its own losses on the battlefield

EBRD lends €10 million to Aversi Pharma in Georgia

How young Cameroonians end up fighting in Russia's war

Analysts say economic desperation and fraudulent recruitment schemes are funneling Cameroonian youth into the Russian military — with deadly consequences.

Belarus fails to break free from Russia’s economic grip

Russian Oil Tracker – August 2026: Strikes on oil infrastructure and diesel export ban reduced crude and oil products shipments through the Black Sea by 26% and 47% respectively

Russia's saboteurs have followed the arms industry east into Nato

"Resilience plans are a PR stunt." Will Ukraine's regions be ready for the toughest winter of the war?

Ready4EIC: new training programme for innovative SMEs in EU enlargement countries

The Limits of China’s “No Limits” Partnership with Russia

Russia targets Ukraine’s rail network as war enters deadly new phase

Putin’s mouthpieces earn £800k a year for Kremlin propaganda

OPINION: Putin’s Knee-Jerk Nuclear Saber-Rattling

Kos sets out new path for EU enlargement: Internal reforms, safeguards and gradual integration to end impasse

China's HQ-9B Air Defense Under Fire After War Failures

iStories investigation shows how Russia recruits soldiers for its war against Ukraine: private firms, targeted Telegram ads, and phone numbers bought for as little as 12 cents apiece

Panicked Putin Reaches for Nationalization Button

Baku issues warrants for three Russian pundits over ‘hostile actions against Azerbaijan’

Glide bomb then infiltrate. This is Russia’s new way of war.

It’s ‘Black August’ in Russia, but Putin is sweeping this summer’s crisis under the rug

"Complete power outage": why Crimea was left without electricity and what it threatens the residents of Crimea

Baltic states arm for Russian threat as leaked letter shows growing fears

Russia Steps Up Multi-Front Pressure On Ukraine With Drones, Decoys, Missiles, And North Korean Forces – Analysis

Six regional partnerships selected under the 1st GEFund Open Call

China’s New Arctic Gamble Has a Russian Catch

'Land for peace' won't stop Russia's war on Ukrainian identity

The winners and losers of the EU’s Growth Plan for the Western Balkans

EU Dreams Collide with Russia’s Hybrid War in Moldova

A window for negotiations with Russia. What arguments does Ukraine already have?

The meaning of September’s State Duma elections

Russia is trying to force Ukrainian children to become Russian, with reeducation, forcible transfers and camps

Norway to maintain Ukraine aid at around $9 billion in 2027, PM says

Damages to Ukraine’s infrastructure from the war have risen to $197.5 billion – KSE Institute estimate as of February 2026

Is Putin's 'Caspian Express' A New Lifeline Between Russia And Iran?

Fake videos and false allegations target candidates in French 2027 presidential election

Will North Korean forces bolster Russia's Ukraine war?

Support for EU accession remains high across enlargement partners, latest surveys show

From “biolabs” to Bandera: how Russian propaganda seeks to break Ukrainian prisoners

European Union and UN Partners Launch a New Initiative to Improve Air Quality in Armenia

Sino-Russian Defence Ties in a Multipolar World: Shared Goals, Limited Trust, and Strategic Implications

From social media to the front line: Russia’s foreign recruitment pipeline

Russian-Armenian Tensions Keep Rising

Russia’s oil money is drying up—so its own people are paying for the war

From Guns to Gulags: The FSB’s Empire Builders

Russian arrested in Bosnia, at the center of a sabotage investigation that extends to several European countries

“This is a real disaster” What prevents Ukraine from exporting grain by bypassing ports

How EBRD and donors support young entrepreneurs in the Western Balkans

China expands its spy networks across the European Union and beyond

Paying off the court

At least 8,000 Russian criminal defendants have donated to the army to get their sentences reduced. How did funding the war become a legal strategy?

Which way for EU enlargement? Brussels faces moment of truth over bloc's expansion

Instrumentalised Migration and Russia’s ‘Disposable Agents’

Entire districts could be left without gas stations. What are the consequences of Russian attacks on gas stations?

Russian life satisfaction slumps to 47% as gloom returns to mobilisation levels

Georgia Was Not the Beginning

Putin plays on the "Anchorage spirit" again: what the Kremlin is counting on

Panic as a weapon of the Kremlin

EU receives €1.4 billion in revenue from immobilised Russian assets to be used for supporting Ukraine

The Failure of Chinese Defense Systems: From Operation Sindoor to Venezuela

Deserted Or Dead? Russian Military Saves Money By Declaring Missing Soldiers AWOL

Russia’s Shadow War Surges Southward

"You will be expelled from here." In Crimea, FSB persecutes man for talking about war in taxi

The Russian far-right has taken root in the region: "Russian" connections lead from Visegrad and Belgrade to the front in Ukraine

The Russian far-right movement “Russo-Slavic Unification and Revival”, known by the abbreviated name “Rusov”, maintains ties to political and far-right circles in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, while individuals affiliated with this organization participated in the war in Ukraine.

Russia prepares its 'final push' of the war this fall

Ninth edition of EuroSchool brings together young people from all around Azerbaijan

Sexual violence as a weapon of war: how the UN finally put Russia on the “list of shame” and why it matters

Putin bans Russia’s only anti-war party from running against him

The four futures of Russia – and why none of them scare Belarus as much as the present

Ukraine’s 40-day campaign has not brought the war closer to an end

Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine: EU lists five additional individuals supporting Russia’s military-industrial complex

Explosion at Bulgarian arms plant revives Russian sabotage concerns

Targeted Strikes on Bortnychi: Why Is Russia Attacking Kyiv’s Water Treatment Plants?

ReSPA and Italian Partners Strengthen Senior Public Leadership through Capacity Building and Mobility Programme 3.0

CRIME AND CORRUPTION

A Police HQ, Wind Farms, and Natural Gas: Mapping China’s Investments in Europe

At least six assassination attempts have targeted Russian generals away from the front line over the past two years — three of them fatal

‘Black widows’: Women accused of marrying Russian army recruits to claim death payouts

How Russians Are Bracing for Montenegro 2027? – Danilo Kalezic

Russian human safari of a Kherson market trader reignites war crimes accusations

EU Dreams Collide with Russia’s Hybrid War in Moldova