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A Russia-NATO War Would Look Nothing Like Ukraine

Russia planned its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine as a decisive, three-day campaign that would take its troops into Kyiv and quickly topple the Ukrainian government. More than three years later, that scenario remains a Russian pipedream. Suffering horrific casualties and losses of equipment, Russian forces are bogged down along …

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Customs takes the good. How the “Sechinsk clan” tried to capture the FCS, but did not succeed

On April 27, the 235th Moscow Garrison Military Court sentenced to 10 years in a strict regime colony, Major-General of the FSB Dmitry Muryshov, who, at the rank of a seconded employee, headed the Department of Anti-Corruption in the Federal Customs Service. Muryshov was found guilty of taking bribes for …

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