Russia Decoded

  • August 31, 2026: The Law of the Jungle

    August 31, 2026: The Law of the Jungle | RSS.com At a Moscow university on Saturday, Vladimir Putin told a room of educators and students that packs of orcas sometimes hunt and kill polar bears. “Children should be told about this,” he explained, “so that they understand what kind of world we live in and

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  • August 24, 2026: Pandora’s Box

    August 24, 2026: Pandora’s Box | RSS.com Last week, Vladimir Putin sat down for an interview with Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin, where he warned that Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy and logistics infrastructure had “opened Pandora’s box.” Moscow, Putin promised, would respond with devastating force. Kyiv’s deep strikes this summer have turned the war into

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  • August 10, 2026: Blame Russia for Everything

    Russia Decoded This week, Vesti devoted its Europe report to a single accusation: that a failing European political class blames Moscow for every crisis that it has created itself, from migrants surging into Ceuta to vineyards burning in France and Germany’s self-imposed energy shock. All of it, the program insists, is unfairly laid at Russia’s

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  • August 3, 2026: So Many Ways to Go Wrong

    Russia Decoded The Russia-Ukraine war is no longer contained to Ukraine, and the number of theaters now capable of pulling in one another, from Kyiv to Tehran, is growing faster than anyone’s ability to manage them. Was Ukraine’s recent strike on an Iranian vessel intended as a message for Donald Trump, and why did it

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