A new Levada Center survey finds regular internet use in Russia stable at 83% of respondents, despite 77% reporting mobile access problems in March 2026. About 80% use social networks, with VKontakte ...
According to RM’s measurements using ISW data, from April 8, 2025, to April 7, 2026, Russia captured 1,897 square miles ...
Russia: +29,154 square miles. 13% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to half the U.S. state of Illinois). Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia presently controls, including Crimea and parts ...
Russia: +27,089 square miles. 12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to the U.S. states of Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire combined). 2 Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia ...
Russia: +25,000 square miles. 11% of Ukraine. Area equivalent to Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut combined. Ukraine: 0. Ukraine has not taken any territory controlled by Russia before the ...
On March 2, we at RM selected and published assessments of the then-early stage of the Iran conflict as part of our “Clues from Russian Views” rubric. A month later, several of these predictions ...
In that scenario [oil at $200 a barrel], sustained higher oil prices could plunge the world into a recession, raise borrowing costs, alter the outcome of ongoing wars, and shift the balance of ...
In that case, I think China would send a sharp message (as it did with Russia in 2022) that it strongly opposed any such action,” Ignatius said. Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan argue in FA that ...
Ten years ago this week, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton followed up on Vice President Joe Biden’s proposed “reset” in relations with Moscow by giving her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, a ...