Jake Cordell

Russian smugglers import luxury cars from Europe despite sanctions Wealthy customers hit with hefty charges as importers forced to take longer routes

"I don’t want to know what happens to the cars after" - a German car trader asked how a luxury vehicle he sold was quickly re-exported to Russia, despite sanctions

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Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.

Evan Gershkovich's first story back @wsj.com after being released from a Russian jail earlier this year.

With a dateline for the ages: ABOARD A RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL JET

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The Russian government's citizens advice platform appears to have, for some reason, published new information about Moscow's Oreshnik hypersonic missile

- Range: 5,500km
- Warhead: 1.5T
- Nuclear yield: 900 kilotons (45 x Hiroshima)
- Time to hit NATO's Brussels HQ: 17 mins

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Russian rouble hits 104 against USD, lowest since March 2022. Interest rates already at a 20-year high and threat of stagflation escalating.

Numbers already running far ahead of warnings in this article from 2 months ago: www.barrons.com/news/russia-...