The Domestic Cannibalization While the external walls are closing in, the internal floor is rotting. On New Year’s Day, Russia’s VAT officially jumped to 22%. This isn't a sign of strength; it’s an act of desperation. The Kremlin is cannibalizing its own middle class to plug a federal budget revenue gap that fell 20% short of targets in 2025.

The United States is accusing Russia of a “dangerous and inexplicable escalation” of the nearly four-year war in Ukraine at a time when the Trump administration is trying to advance negotiations towar

Washington has proposed the first face-to-face negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in months, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday, expressing scepticism about whether Moscow genuinely wants to end the war. The proposal for three-way ...

Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk's Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped ...

The Department of Energy will award $2.7 billion over 10 years to three firms to expand U.S. uranium enrichment.

BRUSSELS (CN) — European leaders scrambled Monday to respond to a weekend assault from Washington that won praise from Moscow, exposing divisions over how to counter an increasingly hostile U.S. administration. The crisis unfolded over four chaotic days.

In January 2025, when the Trump administration froze nearly all foreign aid, more than 1,000 emergency communal kitchens in Sudan shut down within weeks.

The United States remains “unacceptably vulnerable” to a dangerous form of escalation by Russia in space, including the possibility of a nuclear detonation that could cripple satellites and disrupt daily life on Earth,