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The kremlin’s “Special Reproduction Operation”

Massive losses in the war against Ukraine have exacerbated russia’s demographic crisis to a critical level. The fertility rate in 2025 was 1.37 children per woman, far below the minimum required rate of 2.1. The kremlin’s response is a propaganda machine, retooled from military rhetoric to reproductive one.

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russian Businesses Are Replacing English Signs en Masse, Spending a Month’s Worth of Revenue

New rules regarding the use of foreign words in commercial activities have been in effect in russia since March. From now on, all signs, advertising materials, and product descriptions on websites and marketplaces must be exclusively in russian. The Latin alphabet and “insufficiently russian” words in Cyrillic are banned.

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russia’s Economy Is Repeating the Scenario of the Late ussr

Analysts are increasingly comparing the current situation to the delayed crisis of the late ussr, when economic problems were masked by debt for a long time. Although the scale of the current challenges is not comparable to the catastrophe of the 1990s yet, russia is inevitably facing a prolonged period of economic turbulence.

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putin’s Economy: a Quarter of a Century of High Prices

Twenty-six years of putin’s rule have left russians with a wonderful legacy: what cost 100 rubles in the early 2000s, cost 1,033 rubles by the end of 2025. Total inflation over this period was about 930%.

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russia’s Waste Recycling Industry Is in Deep Crisis

January and February were the most difficult months for businesses, when the turnover of many companies fell sharply amid a general decline in economic activity.

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Ships of the “Shadow Fleet” Flying the rf’s Flag Are Scaling up Hybrid Threats to Europe

The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine has received information about the kremlin’s plans to increase the number of tankers transporting oil under the rf’s flag. This decision is dictated by the increasingly frequent cases of detentions of tankers belonging to russia’s “shadow fleet” by European countries and the United States.

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Ukraine and the World – Against russia’s Aggression. Sanctions in Action

“The decisions regarding the EUR 90 billion loan (to Ukraine) were made collectively and relate to the military context. And the context of the war has not changed. We must honor our commitments and the decisions we have made, and this is precisely what we will be working on in the coming days and weeks,” said President of France Emmanuel Macron.

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Defense Industry As a Black Hole: How the Military-Industrial Complex of the rf Is Swallowing up the Civilian Economy and Failing to Save Even Those Who Work for It

For years, moscow has been promoting the narrative of the military-industrial complex as the engine of economic growth. The reality turned out to be fundamentally different. The military-industrial complex functions as a giant pump that sucks resources out of all other sectors, including the enterprises that directly serve it.