The energy superpower now rations fuel by QR code lottery
Governors negotiating jerry-can quotas. The assemblies voting not to convene. What the fuel crisis looks like from Samara, Pskov, Irkutsk, and Sevastopol.
Russia annexed Crimea to control it. Now it can’t even control the gas station line
Stations open briefly without warning as pump and resale prices pull apart.
Russia’s oil exports hit a wartime record—its income didn’t
More tankers sail, but their Russian cargoes are worth less.
Moscow spent centuries explaining Ukraine to the world. A Lviv institute is breaking the monopoly
Sasha Dovzhyk runs INDEX, a Lviv institute that brings foreign scholars to live inside wartime Ukraine long enough to get it right. She spoke with Euromaidan Press about epistemic justice and why she thinks the world still lets Moscow narrate its neighbors.
Polish-Ukrainian diplomatic spat hasn’t touched its memorial work in Lviv
A journalist is still tracking down the families of Ukraine’s Polish-descent dead, with consulate help.
1.7 million tons in reserve, queues at the pump—Russia’s fuel math doesn’t close
Russia says it still holds 1.7 million tons of gasoline. Queues, rationing, and import deals show why that number does not put fuel in the tank.
Ireland shipped $308 million in alumina to Russian smelters—EU ban still absent
Coalition presses Ireland to back restrictions on material linked to Russian missile supply chains.
I came to be bored, then a Ukrainian poet’s reading hit me like a freight train
Victoria Day in Lviv marks the close of the fellowship named for writer Victoria Amelina. A skeptic’s account of an evening about home.
Ukraine’s banks got too profitable to sell—so the deadline keeps slipping
The central bank sees a “good chance” of two sales by December. The price the market will pay says otherwise.
Russia can’t blockade Ukraine’s grain ports, so it bombs them—exports could drop a third
The heaviest strikes are expected during the July harvest.
Ukraine binds a quarter of its economy to EU procurement rules—and unlocks $3.4 billion
Reform clears a first-cluster accession requirement as Hungary stalls the talks.
Occupied Crimea’s “energy independence” runs on gas Ukraine can cut
A decade of spending bought dependency dressed as autonomy.
Russia’s fuel rationing reaches Siberia as occupied Crimea runs dry
The shortage is spreading region to region, and Russia is importing gasoline by sea.
Ukraine’s economy posted its sharpest contraction since the wartime recovery began
Russian strikes drove Ukraine's sharpest economic contraction since the recovery began, and forecasters have cut the year to near zero.