Moscow preys on the mentally infirm;
Putin's growing paranoia;
Russia's shadow fleet takes the sky...;
...as its mercenaries struggle in Mali

Putin chokes off the internet;
The dismal state of the federation;
Russia pushes population displacement in occupied Mariupol;
More crackdowns on rights groups;
Putin reshuffles Russian soft power

Anti-corruption justice inches forward;
More Russian covert action thwarted in Kyiv;
Russia expands HIV testing;
Russia proffers nuclear assistance... on Iran;
Russia is still in dire economic straits 

A setback for Moscow in Budapest;
Moscow boosts Iranian strikes;
A budget blowout;
The Kremlin targets another rights group

Oil shipment refocuses attention on Russian spy hub;
Moscow's energy windfall illusion;
The Kremlin's hybrid war continues;
Russo-Iranian nuke ties hit by new war