Russia Matters

Newly published polling by the Levada Center indicates that a clear majority of Russians continue to oppose the use of nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine.

Fact-check: RM’s analysis indicates that Russia’s military expenditures increased 3.16–4.62 times in nominal terms from 2021 to 2025.

Russia is the asymmetric beneficiary of this new period of cyberwarfare as its offensive ecosystem architecture is designed to take full advantage of the jump in capabilities Mythos enables.

Several assessments of the Iran crisis featured in our “Clues from Russian Views” rubric at the conflict's outset have proven accurate.

Ukraine’s goals and strategies, the current battlefield situation and how and when the war might end were among the key topics Valerii Zaluzhnyi addressed in his latest extended Q&A.

Russia’s position in Iran’s war is that of a well-equipped backstage partner with a clear interest in the conflict’s prolongation and a sophisticated, if selective, toolkit for achieving it.

Russia's decision to shroud its population figures in secrecy represents only the latest chapter in a long history of Soviet and Russian demographic denial—and it portends dangerous consequences for regional stability.