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The long-range drone war: Ukraine and Russia scramble for supremacy in the skies

Azerbaijan’s soil laboratories align with international standards

Purges of top PLA brass spur questions about fighting ability

Russia Chartbook by KSE Institute: Energy Price Moderation Returns Pressures; Budget Deficit Grows

"Ukrainian volunteers" in the Russian Federation: propaganda or a wartime resource?

Russia’s New Frontier in Africa

Russia is losing influence in Azerbaijan. How Baku Is rewriting the rules with Moscow

A Hard Winter Awaits Russia: Putin’s Plan Is Bursting at the Seams

Russia’s Wartime Duma Election: What the Result Reveals — and What It Cannot Prove

France and Switzerland take measures to counter Russian hybrid threats

Why a fresh wave of North Korean soldiers may fight in Russia's war in Ukraine

New international cooperation project in Western Balkans and Republic of Moldova supports EU accession by enhancing intellectual property systems

The Propaganda Monitor: RSF exposes China’s global campaign to distort journalism worldwide

ANALYSIS: How Russia Is Trying to Paralyze Kyiv Without Occupying It

Commission disburses €3.3 billion in defence funding to Ukraine

UN Human Rights report details shocking pattern of sexual violence amid Russia’s full-scale armed attack on Ukraine

Russia’s elites pay ever greater price for Ukraine war

Moldova: taxation as a tool in reintegrating Transnistria

"An alarming situation." In Crimea, elections for the Russian State Duma are being overseen by the military and the FSB.

Kremlin Prepares to Cross the Final Red Line

Why the Baltics are pushing back against new fears of a Russian attack

Russian spies ran a campaign against Kyiv on Anthropic’s Claude, and the AI chatbot’s maker caught them at it

Ukraine faces 'toughest winter' since Russia's full-scale invasion, UN official tells BBC

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

Russian arrested for spying on Nato bases

The camps where Xi Jinping tries to save his army from corruption

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