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The banking system in Russia faced the strongest increase in overdue mortgage debts in decades in 2025. According to RBC, which cites data from the “Scoring Bureau”, by the end of the year, Russian citizens had accumulated arrears in the payment of mortgage loans and interest amounting to 276 billion rubles (approx. 2.7 billion euros). Over the year, the amount of arrears increased by 115.2 billion rubles — an increase of 76.6%. RBC emphasizes that such an increase — over 50% per year — was only recorded in the mid-2000s, when the mortgage credit system was just beginning in Russia.…

The structural imbalances accumulated in the Russian economy over the four years of military aggression raise serious questions about the possibility of achieving the goal set by Vladimir Putin to resume economic growth in 2026. According to a Reuters analysis, the engines of growth are exhausted, and the state’s resources are virtually depleted. The stability displayed in the years 2023–2024 was based on massive budget injections and significant revenues from the export of energy resources. However, in 2025 this resilience diminished: the economy is stagnating, and high interest rates and a high level of indebtedness severely affect the profitability of…

Discussions about the future of Chechnya’s leadership have intensified in recent weeks, against the backdrop of increasingly insistent information about the deterioration of Ramzan Kadyrov’s health. Sources close to the Kremlin and the United Russia party told the investigative publication IStories that the situation is being treated with utmost seriousness in Moscow, and the authorities are “working” on a plan to avoid a power vacuum in the North Caucasian republic. At the end of December, the Chechen leader was reportedly urgently hospitalized in a Moscow hospital, according to Novaya Gazeta Europe. Subsequently, on January 11, Ukrainian press, citing sources from…

A shocking case from the Russian army raises serious questions about sending wounded or disabled soldiers to active conflict zones in Ukraine. Sergeant Roman Bairamov, 46 years old, who had been severely injured in the pelvis and legs in November 2025, was sent back to the front in December, even though he was immobilized in a wheelchair, reports the portal Siberian Reality. Medical records show that Bairamov had been declared temporarily unfit for military service, category “G”. However, he was discharged early and sent directly to the front line, without the ability to move on his own. His family kept…

A disturbing incident took place on the afternoon of January 26, when a “Shahed” type kamikaze drone, belonging to the Russian Federation, was observed flying freely over the center of Kiev. Shortly thereafter, other unmanned devices were reported on the left bank of the Dnieper, and witnesses noted the possibility that these could be equipped with video cameras and guided by the Starlink system. The fact that such a drone managed to reach the capital of Ukraine, covering at least 200 kilometers from the Russian border or approximately 100 kilometers from Belarus, raised questions about the detection capacity of the…

For the first time, Russia acknowledged that a Ukrainian missile attack sank its flagship warship in the Black Sea, only to later erase the statement and revert to the official version that the guided missile cruiser Moskva sank as a result of an “accident,” reports CNN. The Moskva was one of the most important ships of the Russian fleet when it sank in April 2022, just seven weeks after Moscow launched its large-scale invasion against Ukraine. Kiev immediately claimed that the ship was hit by Neptune anti-ship cruise missiles, but Moscow promoted a different narrative. The Russian Ministry of Defense…

The founder of Russia’s largest metallurgical holding, “Rusal”, Oleg Deripaska, has deleted all posts critical of the war in Ukraine and the Russian authorities from his Telegram channel, notes the publication Vajnîie Istorii. All publications prior to November 1, 2025, were removed, including the post where the invasion was described as “madness” that “must be stopped immediately”. The comment in which Deripaska criticized the new customs duties for exporters, calling them “extortions/confiscation” and sarcastically stating that the “declared well-being of the population” can only be observed “in Moscow and on television”, has also disappeared. Among the deleted posts were: the…

False theories about the train accident in Spain, which resulted in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries, have spread online, while investigators continue to work to discover what caused the deadly train collisions, according to Euronews. On January 18, in Adamuz, southern Spain, three carriages from a train operated by the private company Iryo derailed and moved onto a separate line before colliding with another train operated by the Spanish state railway operator Renfe, which crashed into an embankment. At least 45 people died in one of the most severe train accidents in the country’s history. A few days…

Members of the Republican Party in the US Congress have warned Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other high-ranking officials at the White House about a possible impeachment procedure against President Donald Trump, if he decides to invade Greenland, political sources told Reuters, reports The Moscow Times. Thus, according to the sources cited, both Republican and Democratic congressmen have suggested to the Trump administration to abandon the idea of conquering Greenland by force. Congressmen are therefore concerned that Trump could launch a major military operation in Greenland, without first consulting the US Congress. US President, Donald Trump stated a few…

One of the close collaborators of the Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Sergei Kirienko, the Head of the Directorate for Public Projects, Sergei Novikov, found himself at the center of a scandal related to the editing of news on the state agency’s website “RIA Novosti”. He stated that 250,000 participants in the war in Ukraine, returned from the front, remain without a job. According to him, a “gray zone” has formed of people who have not applied to any specialized fund, but also have not returned to work. Shortly after publication, the news was modified – noted the…