The ESN party (Europe of Sovereign Nations) was founded on the initiative of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the summer of 2024, based on the former far-right group “Identity and Democracy” (ID), which had ceased to exist earlier that year due to internal splits and a reconfiguration of far-right...
How Russia uses deepfakes and bots to divide Germany
Trying to influence the political landscape in Germany ahead of the state elections (Landtagswahlen) in September 2026, Russia has launched a new wave of disinformation campaigns on social media. The operation aims to undermine Germans’ trust in almost all major political parties in the Federal Republic of Germany — with...
The IOC has destroyed trust in world sport for Russia’s return
On July 7-8, 2026, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), chaired by IOC Executive Board member Kirsty Coventry, officially announced the preliminary lifting of the suspension on the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). The official pretext for this move was the conclusion of the IOC Legal Commission, which...
The Kremlin prepares escalation against Poland: Analysis of scenarios and risks
Since the very beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Poland has acted not only as a key military and political partner for Ukraine but also as the primary transit hub through which the country receives Western weaponry. Russia has tried by all possible means to disrupt Europe's...
Russian missile terror in Ukraine as a modern manifestation of the Nazi “Blitz”
In the history of 20th-century wars, there are chapters that once seemed permanently closed, left behind in textbooks and archival records. One such chapter was the doctrine of “strategic bombing” of civilian populations, aimed at completely breaking a nation’s will to resist. In the autumn of 1940, Europe watched in...
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s anti-NATO stance and its implications for European security
Today's European security architecture is experiencing its deepest crisis since World War II. The unity and stability of European countries are being tested not only by external factors but also by internal socio-political polarization, which Russia is actively trying to fuel. France is one of the EU countries where both...
The GRU Spy web under the guise of oil exports
In late November 2024, a surge of activity unfolded over strategic US and UK airbases in East Anglia—RAF Lakenheath and RAF Fairford—where the US had resumed stationing its tactical nuclear weapons in the summer of 2025. Over the course of a week, groups of unidentified, low-flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)...
Project Fish revelations: the Kremlin’s secret operation against the British elite
In the corridors of British intelligence agencies and the halls of Westminster, rumors about the scale of Russian influence in the highest echelons of power had been circulating for a long time. However, recent revelations, largely based on intelligence archives and materials from the former head of MI6’s Russia desk,...
Who and how is shaking up the Italian government at the behest of Moscow
The Kremlin's animosity toward Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been repeatedly demonstrated through public attacks and insults directed at her by pro-government Russian propagandists. Russia is displeased with the consistent policy of the Italian official, who has done a great deal to reduce Italy's energy dependence on the Russian...
The Kremlin’s spy fleet — oligarchs’ superyachts in the service of intelligence
In 2018, an incident unfolded off the coast of Cyprus that remained in the shadows of official naval reports for a long time. The British landing ship HMS Albion, conducting closed maneuvers in the eastern Mediterranean, was forced to weigh anchor urgently and change its operating area. The reason for...