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The cracks in Putin’s rule are real for the first time. The machine to remove him in Russia still doesn’t exist

For the first time, the cracks in Putin's rule are real — a shrinking economy, a stalled war, an elite near schism. And for the first time, none of it may matter: Russia has the pressure without the ...
CNBC

Russia's economy 'stinks,' Trump says, and lower oil prices will stop its war machine

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Russia's economy "stinks" and lower oil prices will hammer Russia's war machine. The comments come as relations between Moscow and Washington hit a low ...
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Russia’s war machine is creaking

“I’m sure I’m not the first to tell you this. But something is definitely happening in Russia. You can feel it in the air. You walk down the street, get on the metro, sit in a café, and everywhere ...
The New York Times

How Russia’s War Machine Brutalizes and Exploits Its Own Soldiers

In hundreds of official complaints, inadvertently posted online by the Russian government, soldiers and their loved ones describe a lawless and violent military apparatus that abuses its own troops to ...
The New York Times

The Ukrainian Bureaucrat Working to Squeeze Russia’s War Machine

Vladyslav Vlasiuk has spent the past four years pressing Western allies to squeeze the Russian economy through more sanctions. He hopes that 2026 will be the tipping point. Vladyslav Vlasiuk, the ...