The Russian finance minister Anton Siluanov is working on a new fiscal rule for the country as it transitions into a wartime economy. His efforts have put him at odds with Vladimir Putin as his powerful rivals at the Kremlin watch on.
Based on their own observations and diplomatic contacts with Pyongyang, the Russian intelligence services expect North Korea to test an inter-continental ballistic missile before 20 September and possibly carry out a nuclear test subsequently in response to a recent South Korean-US military exercise.
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Now back at work after the summer recess, the parliamentary intelligence body presided by ruling party MP Sacha Houlié counts for the very first time among its members a parliamentarian from the far-right Rassemblement National party, Caroline Colombier.
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A growing proportion of the Chinese Communist Party and the Central Military Commission agrees that Xi Jinping's departure from politics in five years' time should usher in the end of Taiwan's self-rule and its reunification with China.
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France is maintaining its links with Ukraine, while trying to tread a fine line between providing military and logistics support for Ukraine in cooperation with the allies and, at the same time, preparing itself for life in a war economy and developing its own strategic autonomy.
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Investigations firm Barber Mullan & Associates, which is run by a small, mainly British team, used to do most of its business as a subcontractor for larger firms, which are now concerned about the loss of this valuable support.
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Azerbaijan's small cyber sector has brought in Israeli experts to make up for the deficit in its own capacities. Local integrator Prosol, which is in the process of building up its own product range, is leading private sector initiatives in this area.
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