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Putin’s Fifth Term: Inauguration and Outlining Russia’s Strategic Objectives to 2030

On May 7, 2024, Vladimir Putin was officially inaugurated for his fifth term as Russian president in a ceremony at the Grand Kremlin Palace, and outlined a plan for...

U.S. Identifies and Sanctions LockBit 3.0 Leader After Eleventh-Hour Data Dump

Update (1035 EST): The U.S. Department of Justice has formally charged Mr. Khoroshev. The announcement reads below: "Dimitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, also known as LockBitSupp, LockBit, and putinkrab, 31, of Voronezh,...

Polish Judge with Access to Classified Information Defects to Belarus

Defection Timeline On May 6th, 2024, at approximately 0500 EST, Polish Judge Tomasz Szmydt of the Warsaw Voivodeship Administrative Court and the former head of the legal department of the...

Belarus Orders Inspection of Tactical Nuclear Weapons

As this publication reported in March 2023, the Russian Federation signed several Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with Belarus to host nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil. Yesterday, President Putin ordered...

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