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Canada announced on Wednesday new sanctions targeting Russia’s drone and energy industries, as well as infrastructure it claims is used to launch cyber attacks against Ukraine. The measures, presented by Foreign Minister Anita Anand during a meeting of G7 foreign ministers held near Niagara Falls (Ontario), also target ships from Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” – vessels suspected of transporting oil with the aim of circumventing international sanctions. “Canada will continue to ensure that Russia’s actions do not go unpunished,” Anand declared in a press conference alongside Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Andriy Sybiha. Anand specified that this is the first time Canada…
President Vladimir Putin has authorized the sale of Citibank’s Russian subsidiary to local investment firm Renaissance Capital, according to a decree published on Wednesday. This decision effectively marks the completion of the American banking group Citigroup’s withdrawal from Russia. The Kremlin’s decree allows Renaissance Capital to acquire 100% of Citibank Russia’s shares from the parent company, Citigroup Netherlands B.V., without any other regulatory approvals. Citigroup first announced plans to sell its retail businesses in Russia in 2021, but decided to completely shut down operations after Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Since then, Citibank has significantly reduced its local…
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, authors of scientific publications in Russia have started to quote Vladimir Putin more frequently in their work, reports Verstka, which analyzed a large volume of texts from the academic database eLibrary. Between 2022 and 2025, Putin was mentioned in at least 26,500 scientific papers, and at least 705 publications were directly dedicated to him. The mentions appear not only in political science or sociology journals, but also in fields such as pedagogy, philology, cultural studies, and even medicine. In many cases, **quotes from Putin’s speeches, decrees, and messages are used not as…
Western countries could exploit the weak points in the supply chains of the Russian aerospace industry, particularly through tightening sanctions, as Ukraine targets Moscow’s industrial infrastructure, according to a new report published by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a British think tank specializing in security and defense. The analysis, signed by Jack Watling and Nikolay Staykov, shows that despite the considerable size of its defense industry, Russia remains “heavily dependent” on imported materials and components to maintain its production of fighter aircraft. This dependence makes it “vulnerable” to delays and blockages that could be caused by additional sanctions, the…
An international logistics network with three nodes massively fuels Russia’s war machinery. North Korea arms Russia and receives classified technologies in return. Approximately 70% of the ammunition used by Russia in the war against Ukraine is manufactured in North Korea, reports the Japanese publication Kyodo News, citing a Ukrainian analysis of classified documents regarding Moscow’s military resources. These documents detail how Russia procures supplies from North Korea and Iran, while managing to evade Western sanctions on vital components for weapon manufacturing via China. Since the start of the total war in 2022, Pyongyang has supplied Moscow with approximately 6.5 million…
New revelations emerge regarding high-level corruption acts involving Ukrainian businessman Timur Mindich, a close ally and business associate of President Volodimir Zelenski. He appears in the “bribes” case from Energoatom, but he is also accused of trying to pressure the former Minister of Defense, Rustem Umerov, to buy bulletproof vests from a certain company. The deal was ultimately not concluded. This matter was reported by journalist Tetyana Nikolayenko, the vice-president of the Anti-Corruption Public Council within the Ministry of Defense. It’s about the company “Milikon UA”, regarding which the Anti-Corruption Public Council from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense opposed “publicly…
Weapons manufacturers warn that NATO should set objectives for defense industries specific to war situations. Micael Johansson, CEO of the Swedish group Saab, said at an event in Brussels that the alliance should create new capability objectives regarding “minimum industrial capacity requirements” in case of war, according to Euractiv. Last week, German Lieutenant General Alexander Sollfrank, responsible for the country’s joint operations command, stated that Russia could attack its NATO member neighbors at any time. The high-ranking executive of Saab stated that he wants NATO to think about “how to manage the security of supply” with defense equipment and not…
The peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine ended this year without significant progress, leading to their suspension, the Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister, Serhii Kyslytsya, told The Times on Tuesday. According to him, Kiev has been actively working since the summer of 2025 to convince Ukraine’s international partners to increase pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to accept a personal meeting with President Volodimir Zelenski. “Under a dictatorship, it is impossible to have fruitful discussions with the people who represent the dictator. They have a very strict mandate and must defend the position they were instructed to defend,” Kyslytsya said, referring…
At least 37 deputies and senators of Russia would have obtained their parliamentary mandate to escape criminal prosecution, benefiting from parliamentary immunity, writes the publication Project. In total, 1 in 10 Russian parliamentarians would have had legal problems in the past, reveals an analysis of 622 members of the State Duma and the Federation Council. Buying a seat in the State Duma was a common practice since the 2000s, the price for an eligible position on the LDPR party lists reaching up to 5 million dollars. For many, the role in the state was a form of legal protection. For…
The Republic of Moldova is making a decisive step in strengthening its informational resilience. At the conference “Mapping the FIMI Factors and Stimulants Related to Elections in the Republic of Moldova”, Ana Revenco, the director of the Center for Strategic Communication and Disinformation Combat, presented a detailed plan for creating a proactive national information security architecture, the first of its kind in the region. The Republic of Moldova needs to move from reaction to prevention, in a context where hybrid threats and information manipulation become key tools of foreign influence, says Revenco. “Information manipulation and foreign interference are not only…