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Reuters: The Communists of Russia party has asked the FSB security service and top prosecutors to investigate the possible involvement of Western intelligence services in the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953.
Bloomberg: French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce a pledge as soon as this week to support a Czech proposal to source hundreds of thousands of artillery shells from countries outside the European Union to back Ukraine’s war effort.
ISW continues to document how Russian authorities are repeatedly engaging in large-scale and deliberate ethnic cleansing campaigns and systematically working to eliminate Ukrainian language, culture, history, and ethnicity in areas of Ukraine that Russia occupies.
Sky News: Iran has supplied Russia with ballistic missiles as Moscow wages war in Ukraine, Britain's defence secretary has signalled, accusing Tehran of being a "bad influence" in Europe.
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Reuters: Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council and an ally of Putin, described Ukraine on Monday as part of Russia and said what he called historical parts of Russia needed to "come home."
Eurasianet: The Caucasus is the key link in a rapidly developing “value chain” forged by Russia and Iran to circumvent Western sanctions, according to a policy brief published by a Dutch think-tank.
Reuters: The European Commission will propose on Tuesday ways for the European Union to boost its arms industry so it can shift to "war economy mode" in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Business Insider: Moscow is unlikely to be using its new tank, the T-14 Armata, on the battlefield in Ukraine because the system is far too costly, the head of a Russian state-owned weapons manufacturer said on Monday.
Reuters: Ukraine's military said on Monday its forces had contained a Russian advance outside the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka captured last month, but Moscow's troops were regrouping in an area further south.
Kyiv Post: Ukraine said Monday that it had not seen the 16 billion euros in proceeds from two donor conferences held in Poland in 2022, early in Russia's invasion.
Reuters: Russia's state railway company said on Monday it had been forced to cancel and re-route some trains in the Samara region after an explosion at a rail bridge, which Ukrainian military intelligence claimed was used by trains carrying ammunition.
The Kyiv Independent: The European Commission wants Ukraine to become a full member of the EU’s defense industry support scheme, which would help use the country’s military experience and bring Kyiv closer to EU accession, Euractiv reported.
The Moscow Times: At least a dozen clinics in Russia secretly conduct so-called conversion therapy, an abusive practice used to forcibly “cure” LGBTQ+ people, Current Time reported on Monday.
Reuters: NATO member Albania, which has no fighter jets of its own, opened a rebuilt Soviet-era air base to serve NATO aircraft on Monday amid an increased threat from Russia, Prime Minister Edi Rama said.
POLITICO: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock today called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to "intensively consider" potential deliveries of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, stressing that "the facts are very, very clear."
AP News: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Monday sharply criticized the Hungarian and Slovak foreign ministers for meeting with their Russian counterpart during a regional forum in Turkey.
Reuters: A group of more than 40 countries on Monday reiterated calls for Russia to allow an independent international investigation into the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in prison.
DW: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has warned against Russian influence. She said that helping Western Balkan countries to join the European Union is a crucial part of countering the threat from Moscow.
Reuters: Poland, seeking to meet the needs of protesting farmers, plans to ask the European Union to put sanctions on Russian and Belarusian agricultural products, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday during a visit to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
AFP: Russia's foreign ministry on Monday summoned the German ambassador to Moscow following the publication of a wiretap leak of a confidential Germany army discussion on Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's military intelligence agency launched a DDoS attack against the servers of the Russian Defense Ministry, gaining access to "a bulk of classified service documents," the agency said on March 4.
WSJ: Two years after the invasion of Ukraine, drones and U.S.-made computer chips are increasingly flowing to Russia from China through Central Asian trade routes, showing the difficulty of strangling supplies to Moscow’s war effort (archive).
worth mentioning
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Foreign Policy: The ‘Military Schengen’ era is here
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