Find past issues in the Russia-Ukraine War Report Card archive. Sept. 29, 2026, update: Based on data from Ukraine’s DeepState OSINT group, in the past four weeks (Sept. 1–29, 2026), Russia made a net ...

As the Soviet Union unraveled in the late 1980s and early 1990s, power and legitimacy shifted rapidly from the union center and its leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to the republics. During this turbulent ...

A pretext becomes a serious warning only when two costly signals appear together: The accusation is voiced by Putin himself, and physical preparations—population moves near a border, state camera ...

The election demonstrated a model of “total control” that the Kremlin may expand into permanent workplace networks, political monitoring and possibly a social-rating system.

Andrei Pertsev argues that United Russia’s 57.96% of the votes cast in the past parliamentary elections and 59.32% turnout in these elections were not records for Putin’s rule, but appeared ...

Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia presently controls, including Crimea and parts of Donbas that Russia had seized prior to the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022: +45,199 square miles.

12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to half the U.S. state of Illinois.) +29,097 square miles. 12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to half the U.S. state of Illinois.) Total area of all ...

“Declaration of the Council of Heads of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Strengthening Multilateral Partnership for Nuclear and Physical Nuclear Security,” SCO member states, ...

Fareed Zakaria writes that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner view Russia as a potential partner and seek “‘win-win’ solutions with Putin.” In contrast, Putin “has never claimed to be a businessman ...

Putin is “a man who has repeatedly been willing to impose costs on Russia” if doing so weakens the United States.

Thomas Graham says Washington’s task is “to reconfigure the matrix confronting Putin” so that ending the war short of his maximal goals becomes “his best geopolitical option.” He proposes “three ...