According to intelligence reports, wage arrears in Russia have risen by nearly 80% over the past year. This is exacerbating social tensions and sparking new protests among workers.
Half a million Russians declared bankruptcy last year as the country’s banking institutions bear the brunt of the cost of the war in Ukraine, a European intelligence report says this week.
Mass business closures
Between 12,000 and 15,000 companies have shut down in Russia each month for economic reasons since the start of 2026, roughly three times the monthly total in previous years, Kommersant reported.
Did Russia try to extend the war with Ukraine Into Germany? An airport employee in Leipzig, Germany discovered an armed drone lying near a runway, not far from where some Ukrainian transport planes were located. A second drone reportedly hit a cargo plane taking off.
There have been a series of unauthorised drone flights in Germany in recent months over sensitive sites including military bases, airports, energy terminals, seaports and logistics companies…
A police spokesman told the BBC that the object discovered overnight had been spotted close to parked Ukrainian Antonov transport planes.
German media reported the attached bomb was made of PETN and semtex plastic explosive – the second of the two being the munition that exploded inside Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie. But the bomb attached to the drone did not explode, because the detonator was faulty.
As casualties mount on the front lines in Ukraine, a troubling scam is sweeping across Russia: predatory opportunists, dubbed “black widows,” are allegedly enticing vulnerable soldiers into rapid, fast-tracked marriages right before deployment-or even on their deathbeds, reports CNN. Under Russian law, legal next of kin receive lump-sum compensation starting at 5 million rubles ($64,000) when a service member dies in combat.
However, grieving relatives are increasingly finding themselves cut out of these official survivor payouts by strangers who married their loved ones just days before they were killed, sparking nationwide outrage and calls for a legal crackdown.