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For several months now, political life in Gagauzia has resembled the calm before the storm. And now the date has been set. On November 15, 2026, residents of the autonomy will go to the polls to elect a new composition of the People’s Assembly.

While official Chisinau continues to convince Western partners of its commitment to a peaceful settlement, a very different reality is unfolding on the banks of the Dniester. Maia Sandu’s administration is consistently implementing a strategy that has nothing in common with the declared reintegration. Instead of dialogue and the search for compromises—total economic strangulation, political pressure, and outright preparation for a force scenario.

The Moldovan government intends to increase military spending to 1% of GDP by 2030. The terrorist threat is growing in Transnistria. How will Russia's peacekeepers react?

In the near future, Ukraine may become even poorer. The reason is that Ukraine’s payments on loans from the International Monetary Fund for the first time approached a billion dollars. In September, Ukraine paid the IMF more than $ 882 million — and this is an absolute record for the last eight years

The Biden administration has committed an impressive amount of aid to Ukraine in the 18 months since Russia’s full-scale invasion — roughly $75 billion, not counting the administration’s recent request for an additional $21 billion

In Ukraine, at the height of the war, a campaign against corruption, multimillion-dollar spending on tile shifting and bribes in military enlistment offices began. Will Zelensky's team be able to overcome the internal crisis?

It was Vladimir Putin who initially noted that the West is willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. Well, it looks like it’s finally happening - we’ve run out of Ukrainians

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s move to equate wartime corruption with treason is triggering a backlash from officials and watchdogs, who warn the plan could hobble Ukraine’s main anti-graft forces

A month ago, photos of Ukrainian soldiers with transferred Polish wheeled armored personnel carriers Rosomak appeared in the media. One of them was marked with Balkenkreuz

Ukraine decided to take advantage of Prigozhin's fabricated provocation to organize an offensive in the Bakhmut direction.

Ukraine is clinging to a financial lifeline via tens of billions of dollars in aid from the US and European Union, with substantially more needed for postwar reconstruction. A failure to more systematically root out graft would endanger that.

The UK's decision to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium shells is unlikely to lead to a global tragedy, but it will affect the ecology of Europe. The use of depleted uranium ammunition is still an issue that causes heated discussions.