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Russian Oil Tracker – January 2026: Russia’s oil export structure shifts as Rosneft and Lukoil lose dominance

Munich Security Report 2026: Russia - possible to attack a neighboring state six months after a ceasefire in Ukraine

A turning point in the war: why, despite a terrible winter under shelling, it seems as if the critical line has already been crossed

EIB Group invested €822 million in the Western Balkans countries in 2025

China and Russia in the Arctic: From a Bumpy Ride to Deeper Engagement

Modern Weapons Shaping the Ukraine-Russia War

EU and German development bank boost alternative finance for vulnerable businesses in Eastern Neighbourhood

Russia–Azerbaijan: Relations Back on the Rocks

Russia’s imitation game

Vladimir Alexeyev shooting: All we know about ‘attempted assassination’ of Putin’s senior general

Moldova Convicts Three of Attending Subversion Camps in Bosnia, Serbia

A year after the loud announcements: why there was no return of Western business to Russia

EBRD 2025 finance for Ukraine rises to a record €2.9 billion

From Classrooms To TikTok, China's Soft Power Push Expands In The Balkans

Russian colleges are offering struggling students ‘one-year’ army contracts. Lawyers warn it’s a trap.

RIDDLE: Russia’s industrial winter

Security service: Russia thinking about Baltics the way it thought about Ukraine

EBRD invested over €800 million in Serbia in 2025

Non-Aggression Pact

What information are Russian state hackers collecting in Serbia?

Russian 'war hero' turned deserter: 'I shot myself and my own men to get us out of Ukraine'

Leaked Russian report details influence strategy for diaspora in South Caucasus

Indifference and fear: how the war has changed Russians

EBRD investment in Moldova accelerates, rising to €508 million in 2025

China has purged its highest-ranked military general

'Ukraine Is Not Losing, Russia Is Not Winning': Amid Push For Peace, Here's How Things Look On The Battlefield

Russian hybrid threats: Council sanctions six individuals over information manipulation activities

Telegram remains key channel for Russian propaganda in the EU, despite restrictions

ANALYSIS: Ukraine’s Energy System Faces ‘Hardest Period of the War,’ Analyst Warns

Germany makes multiple arrests for illegal exports to Russia

When even the navy goes infantry: a telling trend inside Russia’s army

Commission delivers €171 million support package for infrastructure and businesses in the Western Balkans

Europe considers cutting out Huawei and China for good

No chance of capturing the entire Donbas: Russia switches to plan "B"

Russians continue to build up forces for the offensive. Front overview

Ukraine receives bodies of 1,000 soldiers from Russia

Abu Dhabi talks: Europe’s absence leaves Ukraine exposed in trilateral format

The Current Situation In Belarus: An Overview – Analysis

'Impossible to ban grief' — how Russia tries and fails to hide its casualties in Ukraine

EIB invests €50 million in Amber Dragon, the first-ever infrastructure equity fund for Ukraine’s recovery

Xi Jinping's trust in China's top generals appears to wane

Russia’s forces advance slower than any army in the past century

A quid pro quo approach to enlargement reform: streamlining accession while safeguarding the Union

Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals

Russia Recruits Central Asian Prisoners for War in Ukraine - Human Rights Activists

Russian gas imports: Council gives final greenlight to a stepwise ban

Security And Geopolitical Crisis In Bosnia And Herzegovina: Russian Influence, Secessionist Policies Of Republika Srpska And International Responses – Analysis

2025 deadliest year for civilians in Ukraine since 2022, UN human rights monitors find

Ore and order: Russia’s rare-earth strategy for the Ukraine talks

Negotiations in Abu Dhabi: There is contact, there is no agreement

EBRD invests in Nova’s inaugural bond issuance

Polar power play: China, Russia and the race for the Arctic (Part II)

Polar power play: China, Russia and the race for the Arctic (Part I)

80 companies left the Russian market in 2025. The practice of forced seizures of foreign businesses in Russia is intensifying — KSE Institute analysis

In 2026, the Russian economy is in big trouble

Normalizing pro-Russia narratives straight from the Kremlin playbook: an autopsy of an average Italian social media feed

Russia is filling its ranks with foreign fighters and treating them as ‘disposable soldiers’

Unfriending Europe: How Georgian Dream Turned its Rhetoric against the EU

EU allocates first €10 million for special tribunal on Russiaʼs crimes against Ukraine

Serbian police used EU funds to purchase technology from a sanctioned russian company

OPINION: Why Putin Isn’t Interested in Ending the War

Chinese Influence in the Eastern Trio and the Western Balkans: Strategic Fragmentation in the EU’s Enlargement Countries

Putin is weaponizing winter as Russia tries to freeze Ukraine into submission

EU Plans New Russia Sanctions As Loopholes Persist

Russia Targets NATO Frontline States – Analysis

Leak exposes Kremlin-funded “legal aid” network as new front in Russian hybrid warfare in Ukraine

Scraping the barrel: The Kremlin is facing a massive budget deficit due to the low cost of Russian crude oil

Moldova’s quiet push for Transnistria’s reintegration: a new chapter unfolds

Putin Gets a Drenching in High Seas Drama

EIB Group provides EU-backed guarantees to expand finance for war-affected businesses in Ukraine

China ousts top generals amid deepening power shake-up

Going to cede

Why Russia has kept quiet over Maduro's ouster in Venezuela

“Imposing a love of war” Russia is turning Crimea into a military bridgehead: problems with mobilization, propaganda and fuel

Infrastructure of Russian Influence in the Western Balkans

Russia lost 19 generals during the war in Ukraine

Armenia to Improve Access to Affordable Housing for Refugees and Catalyze Private Investments to Mortgage Market with World Bank Support

Russia and China’s Shadow War in Europe

Action plan for 90 billion euros: how the EU is preparing assistance to Ukraine and what it will demand from Kiev

EU’s enlargement to the Western Balkans no longer just about membership: The Case for Operational Integration

New German military plan views foreign sabotage as preparation for war

The Kremlin’s new deadline is April 1: is the Russian Federation capable of capturing the Donetsk region in 2026?

War Spending Accelerating Russian Infrastructure Collapse – Analysis

Azerbaijan and Russian experience a fresh bout of rancor over 2024 air disaster

A grave miscalculation

Putin’s attempt to re-enact World War II in Ukraine has gone horribly wrong

(InCLUDE) – Include the Western Balkans in the EU as Full Members

China's Arctic Strategy and Hybrid Warfare: Targeting Governance and Strategic Responses

Behind the contact line How would the 20-point peace plan impact the millions of Ukrainians living under Russian occupation?

NATO warns Russian intelligence adapting spy tactics in Europe to evade post-war security measures

When did Russia really begin its aggression against Ukraine?

Hypersonic Weapons Escalate War Risks in Ukraine 2026

Cyprus blames Russia for disinformation campaign

Russian Oil Tracker – December 2025: Russian oil export revenues reached the lowest level since the start of the full-scale invasion, India’s imports decreased by 40%

Expanding Cooperation with Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership Countries and Russia (Eastern Partnership Programme)

EBRD and EU support Ukraine’s energy security with €75 million for hydropower

China intensifies Cyber-Attacks on Taiwan as Energy Sector Sees Tenfold Spike

How Russia is turning housing policy into a tool for forcing cooperation in the occupied territories

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Russia’s Africa footprint is deeper than imagined

An alliance that comes at a high cost: The political and economic price of Serbia’s closeness to Russia

Torture and blackmail with children: Ukrainian women on Russian captivity

EU-Western Balkans summit 2025