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Six months after the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine, the Russian economy finds itself at a crossroads.

Sanctions have noticeably complicated life for Alexander, a 23-year-old art museum worker from Moscow. Surging prices have forced him to cut back his spending and explore getting a side job to help pay the bills. At the same time, finding certain goods that he once took for granted, such as furniture and other household items, has become a far more cumbersome process.

Ukraine’s southern offensive marks a new phase of the war

On february 24th the Russian army invaded Ukraine. It quickly became bogged down around Kyiv, the capital, but within a week it had captured its first major city: Kherson, the capital of the southern province of the same name. Kherson has been occupied ever since. On the night of August 28th Ukraine launched an offensive towards the city, declaring that “the battle for Kherson has begun.” It is too early to judge how successful these attacks have been. But why does the region matter?

У Украины нет бронетехники для масштабного наступления на юге, но российская армия уже готова бежать

Вчера началось событие, которое давно можно было предсказать, и предсказывал его, в частности, Алексей Арестович: российский фронт под Херсоном посыпался.

Technological Advancements Are Helping Kyiv Succeed

At the outset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, most experts expected that Kyiv would fall quickly. Ukrainian forces were fighting against a military that was bigger and better armed. Russia’s troops had more combat experience and funding. The question was not if Moscow’s forces would depose the Ukrainian government but when regime change would happen.

The Kremlin Will Eventually Tire of Its Reliance on China

As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine drags on and realigns global geopolitics, the United States needs to review and revise its long-term strategy toward Russia. The primary focus of this strategy, not unlike the original Cold War–era strategy of containment articulated by George Kennan in this magazine 75 years ago, must once again be a “patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.”

Ukraine launched a long-awaited counteroffensive in the Russian-occupied Kherson region Monday, breaking through Russia’s front line in the southeastern Ukraine oblast, its military said in a statement Monday.

“Ukraine has a brilliant chance to reclaim its territories,” the Ukraine military’s Operational Command South said in a statement Monday.

How Distortions About the Past Feed Delusions About the Future

Vladimir Putin is determined to shape the future to look like his version of the past. Russia’s president invaded Ukraine not because he felt threatened by NATO expansion or by Western “provocations.” He ordered his “special military operation” because he believes that it is Russia’s divine right to rule Ukraine, to wipe out the country’s national identity, and to integrate its people into a Greater Russia.

Существует ли Национальная Республиканская армия, которая якобы убила Дарью Дугину?

Вчера вечером экс-депутат Госдумы РФ, а ныне киевлянин Илья Пономарев рассказал на своем канале «Утро февраля», что хорошие русские есть, даже «отличные русские есть», и «вчера они двинули собой». Что несколько месяцев назад он завел телеграм-бот «Роспартизан» для связи с внутрироссийским сопротивлением, и ему по этому боту написала некая Национальная Республиканская армия (НРА), которая под бело-сине-белым флагом будет убивать путинских чиновников, и он с ними переписывался, и они уже осуществляли акции «прямого действия», он даже кого-то вывез, а несколько человек было убито (!) в Волгоградской области. И вот они ему написали, что убьют Дугина и его дочку («они нам говорили, что это будут Дарья и Александр Дугин»), и выполнили обещание, а в машине людей было двое — а чью смерть вместо Дугина скрывают, он, Пономарев, представить не может.