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Tracking Putin’s most feared secret agency—from inside a Russian prison and beyond
The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era
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Putin’s war rhetoric rallies Russian border towns, but nerves fray
Casualties haven’t so far shaken Pskov, region that is home to elite paratrooper division that occupied Bucha
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Russians mourn Ukrainians killed in war at statue to a Ukrainian poet in Moscow
People have been laying flowers at the Lesya Ukrainka monument in central Moscow nearly every day since the Dnipro apartment strike
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Putin, isolated and distrustful, leans on handful of hard-line advisers
Russia’s president built a power structure designed to deliver him the information he wants to hear, feeding into his miscalculations on the Ukraine war
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In Russian border city, pro-Kremlin Ukrainians, soldiers regroup after retreat from Ukraine
Belgorod is on edge after Moscow’s forces vacate northeastern Ukraine. ‘We ourselves don’t understand what happened.’
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In Russia’s biggest cities, Ukraine war fades to background noise
Bars are packed out, film and jazz festivals are sold out and Moscow’s police officers are busier handing out fines for public drinking than putting down dissent
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As Coffins come home, Russians confront toll of Ukraine invasion
Relatives of soldiers killed say they were defending both countries from fascists
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He worked for Moscow’s police for nearly 20 years. Then he spoke up about the Ukraine war.
Sergei Klokov, one of many Russian-Ukrainians, now faces 10 years in prison
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Russia Evacuates Wounded Soldiers to Belarus as Its Casualties in Ukraine War Rise
Convoys of ambulances in border area; ‘There has been a constant flow’
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Russian Vaccine Skeptics Rush to Buy Fake Covid Jab Certificates
Dozens of dealers are claiming to sell fake jab certificates and even falsified registration on the government's vaccination database.

The Kremlin has isolated Russia’s economy
It has protected the country from shocks but is choking any growth
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In Russia, ‘there’s nothing to hide’: A phone call with one of Putin’s closest friends
Sergei Roldugin, the godfather of Putin’s first child, explains why — and how — he bought a $20 million Stradivarius violin.
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The uneasy coexistence of Yandex and the Kremlin
Russia's biggest tech company is almost a Silicon Valley unto itself. But that comes at a price.
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Kremlin critic Navalny’s front door has had a tough year
Frequent raids on the offices of the Anti-Corruption Foundation have taught the team coping and carpentry skills.

Estonia’s natural experiment in fighting right-wing populism
Two models have emerged for dealing with a new nationalist government—but it’s not clear which will prove more effective.

Estonia joins the far-right club
Nationalist party, inspired by Donald Trump, vows to keep out immigrants and protect ‘indigenous’ Estonians as part of new government.

Russia’s fast-growing ‘Youth Army’ aims to breed loyalty to the Fatherland
The military-patriotic youth movement has almost half a million members.

For this green smoothie, the first ingredient is frog
An elixir popular in Peru and Bolivia relies not on leafy greens but on the endangered Titicaca water frog.