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The Chakhoyan Dispatch

The world’s future depends on Ukraine’s victory. This publication unpacks the geopolitical and economic forces shaping the fight

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Inside the careless London Laundromat

Where kremlin narratives are washed, pressed, and published as serious foreign-policy analysis.

Essential reading: open letter to The Economist

After giving a Russian oligarch extraordinary editorial space to launder Kremlin narratives through language of pragmatism, The Economist deserved this response from Nataliia Popovych.

Fear and loathing in St Petersburg

For decades, Moscow waged cognitive warfare largely unopposed. Now the Kremlin is getting a taste of its own medicine.

Everyone is guilty, everyone lies, and everyone kills children, the kremlin wants you to know

CNN did not mean to tell that story, but it did, and that's the problem.

Russia, the unmysterious aggressor

Europe keeps trying to crack the Russian riddle: Why invade neighbors? Why the war crimes? But the answer hides in plain sight.

Russia is reaping what it sowed

Moscow’s war is coming home, and the May 9 'victory cult' spectacle that used to whip the people of Russian into frenzy now looks less like triumph and more like panic.

The raging mediocrity of putin

Why Russia’s war is the product of an oppressive and expansionist imperial system, not a given tzar nor commissar

Meet Shahed: born in Iran, raised in Russia

Soon coming to a neighborhood near you, if Europe doesn’t wake up in time to help Ukraine expel the invaders

When wishing for peace brings war

Performative pacifism doesn't prevent violence. It invites it.

Ukraine is America's friend. russia is the enemy.

Moscow provides targeting intelligence to kill Americans. Kyiv provides drones to save them.