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Reuters: More Russians are informing on fellow citizens for their views on the war in Ukraine and other alleged political crimes. Critics say the wave of denunciations is helping Putin's government crack down on dissent.
ISW: The Kremlin's recent economic policies indicate that the Russian economy will likely face significant challenges in 2025 and that Putin is worried about Russia's economic stability in the long term.
Reuters: A Russian air attack struck a residential building and energy installations on Thursday evening in and near Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa, killing one person, injuring eight and knocking out a boiler plant used for heating, officials said.
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Bloomberg: The European Union is working on a new package of sanctions aimed at targeting the shadow fleet of tankers Russia is using to get its oil to market (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine is developing a 10-point "internal resilience plan" that will be presented next week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address on Nov. 14.
Reuters: A small Russian assault group briefly broke through to the outskirts of Ukraine's northeastern city of Kupiansk for the first time since Moscow's forces fled in September 2022, officials said, in a sign of mounting pressure on the outpost.
AP News: A French military task force with a festive name — “Champagne” — is wrapping up a mission that’s no party: training a whole new brigade of several thousand Ukrainian troops who will be joining the fight against Russia’s invasion armed with France-supplied tanks, artillery canons and other heavy weaponry.
The Kyiv Independent: Private Chinese oil refinery Landbridge Petrochemical Co. has made a rare purchase of a shipment of West African oil instead of typical import from sanctioned Iran and Russia, Bloomberg reported on Nov. 14.
The Moscow Times: High-ranking Kremlin officials and Russia’s security services were behind the decision to shutter Moscow’s award-winning Gulag History Museum, Moscow officials close to the matter have said.
Reuters: Citigroup is being probed by U.S. government agencies over its ties to sanctioned Russian billionaire Suleiman Abusaidovich Kerimov, Barron's reported on Thursday.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia's Foreign Ministry on Nov. 14 warned that it can expel International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors from the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant if it finds their work "inappropriate."
Meduza: A Russian military commander reportedly ran a torture prison on his unit’s grounds, where soldiers were held and extorted for money. Relatives of the freed men confirmed they’d been kept in inhumane conditions, beaten, and robbed of their wages.
The Insider: Electronic warfare (EW) technology from the West is entering Russia through Kazakhstan. The Insider has uncovered a network of Kazakh firms buying high-end radio-technical equipment and sending it to Russia, where it is used to develop and produce EW systems.
The Moscow Times: Russia’s political and business elites, as well as their friends and families, have for years been able to travel abroad using diplomatic passports, the investigative news outlet The Insider reported Thursday, citing documents it obtained.
The EU Commission has given a positive assessment for the second regular payment of close to €4.1 billion under the EU's Ukraine Facility, to support Ukraine's macro-financial stability and the functioning of its public administration.
Meduza: A Russian man sentenced to four years in prison for "secret cooperation with a foreign state" was, in fact, communicating with an FSB operative posing as a Ukrainian in an elaborate sting operation.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian soldiers shot dead an unarmed woman walking on the street of the front-line village of Terny in Donetsk Oblast, the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office reported on Nov. 14.
Reuters: Russian gas supply to oil and gas company OMV in Austria is at risk of stopping before the end of the year due to an arbitration case against Gazprom, the company said.
The Moscow Times: Foreigners arriving in Russia through four Moscow airports and a land border checkpoint with Kazakhstan will be required to submit their photos and fingerprints starting next month, according to a Russian government decree.
Meduza: Russia's Rosaviatsiya may not distribute $192.4 million in subsidies for key airline routes by year’s end. Without this support, airlines may be forced to adjust schedules or cancel routes, potentially cutting up to half of subsidized flights.
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