feat(feeds): add Russian independent sources + fix server parity for ru locale

[zionappp-ui]

Summary

Fixes a server/client parity gap and adds one new independent Russian-language source.

The three existing ru-locale feeds (BBC Russian, Meduza, Novaya Gazeta Europe) were wired in src/config/feeds.ts but had no entries in server/worldmonitor/news/v1/_feeds.ts, so the server-side digest never served them. This PR fixes that gap and adds The Insider as a well-known exile investigative outlet.

Curation note

This block adds independent/exile Russian journalism only. State outlets (RT, TASS, Sputnik, RIA Novosti) already exist under their own separate entries and are not part of this lang:'ru' block.

New feeds

Name	URL	Items	Note
BBC Russian	https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/russian/rss.xml	~30	already allowlisted
Meduza	https://meduza.io/rss/all	30	already allowlisted
Novaya Gazeta Europe	https://novayagazeta.eu/feed/rss	~1	already allowlisted; low-volume but authoritative
The Insider	https://theins.ru/feed	50	new domain
Moscow Times	https://www.themoscowtimes.com/rss/news	50	already allowlisted

All feed URLs probed and verified.

Files changed

• server/worldmonitor/news/v1/_feeds.ts — new RU block in europe array (fixes parity with client)
• src/config/feeds.ts — add The Insider feed entry + lang:'ru' on Moscow Times + SOURCE_TYPES entries
• shared/rss-allowed-domains.json — add theins.ru
• scripts/shared/rss-allowed-domains.json — byte-identical copy
• api/_rss-allowed-domains.js — edge-compatible copy
• vite.config.ts — proxy allowlist
• shared/source-tiers.json — The Insider tier 2, Moscow Times tier 2
• scripts/shared/source-tiers.json — byte-identical copy

All 4 allowlist files and both source-tiers files verified with diff (zero delta).

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Greptile Summary

This PR fixes a server/client feed parity gap for Russian-locale sources and adds The Insider as a new independent Russian-language outlet. Allowlist, tier, and proxy config files are updated consistently across all four copies.

• New RU block in server/worldmonitor/news/v1/_feeds.ts: BBC Russian, Meduza, Novaya Gazeta Europe, The Insider, and Moscow Times are added to the europe array, closing the gap where these feeds were defined client-side but never served server-side.
• src/config/feeds.ts: The Insider is added with lang:'ru', and SOURCE_TYPES entries for The Insider and Moscow Times are registered as 'mainstream'. Moscow Times also receives lang:'ru', but this is incorrect — it is an English-language publication, and the tag causes it to be hidden from non-Russian-language views on both client and server.

Confidence Score: 3/5

The parity fix and new The Insider feed are clean, but tagging Moscow Times as lang:'ru' breaks its visibility for all English-language users and digests.

Moscow Times is an English-language publication that has always been visible to all users. Adding lang:'ru' causes both the client filter (rss.ts:360) and the server digest filter (list-feed-digest.ts:998) to exclude it whenever the active language is not Russian — effectively removing a previously available source from the default English view. The fix needed is to drop the lang tag from Moscow Times in both files.

src/config/feeds.ts and server/worldmonitor/news/v1/_feeds.ts — specifically the lang:'ru' tag on the Moscow Times entry in each file.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
server/worldmonitor/news/v1/_feeds.ts	Adds RU block to europe feeds (BBC Russian, Meduza, Novaya Gazeta Europe, The Insider, Moscow Times). Moscow Times is tagged lang:'ru' but publishes in English, causing it to be filtered out for non-Russian-language digest requests.
src/config/feeds.ts	Adds The Insider, adds lang:'ru' to Moscow Times, and registers SOURCE_TYPES entries. Moscow Times lang:'ru' tag incorrectly hides it from English-language users.
shared/rss-allowed-domains.json	Adds theins.ru to the allowlist; consistent with scripts/shared/ and api/ copies.
shared/source-tiers.json	Adds tier-2 entries for The Insider and Moscow Times; consistent with scripts/shared/ copy.
vite.config.ts	Adds theins.ru to the RSS proxy allowlist for local dev; change is minimal and correct.
api/_rss-allowed-domains.js	Adds theins.ru to the edge-compatible allowlist copy; consistent with other copies.
scripts/shared/rss-allowed-domains.json	Adds theins.ru; byte-identical to shared/rss-allowed-domains.json as stated in the PR description.
scripts/shared/source-tiers.json	Adds tier-2 entries for The Insider and Moscow Times; byte-identical to shared/source-tiers.json.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A[Client request / digest call] --> B{lang param}
    B -->|lang = 'ru'| C[Include feeds with lang:'ru' OR no lang]
    B -->|lang = 'en' / default| D[Include feeds with NO lang tag only]
    C --> E[BBC Russian ✓]
    C --> F[Meduza ✓]
    C --> G[Novaya Gazeta Europe ✓]
    C --> H[The Insider ✓]
    C --> I[Moscow Times ✓ shown]
    D --> J[TASS, RT, Kyiv Independent ✓]
    D --> K[Moscow Times ✗ hidden — was visible before PR]
    style K fill:#f99,stroke:#c00
    style I fill:#9f9,stroke:#090

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[greptile-apps]

Moscow Times incorrectly tagged as Russian-language content

The Moscow Times (themoscowtimes.com) is an English-language publication. Both the client feed filter (feeds.filter(feed => !feed.lang || feed.lang === currentLang) in src/services/rss.ts:360) and the server digest filter (list-feed-digest.ts:998) exclude feeds whose lang does not match the active language. Before this PR, Moscow Times had no lang tag and appeared for all users. After this PR, it is silently hidden for the default English interface — anyone not explicitly running lang=ru will no longer see it in the Europe section. The server side additionally instructs the LLM to output summaries in Russian when lang='ru' is active (_shared.ts:76), so English Moscow Times articles would appear inside a Russian-language digest.

[greptile-apps]

Moscow Times incorrectly tagged as Russian-language on the server side

This is the server-side counterpart of the same issue in src/config/feeds.ts. The Moscow Times publishes in English; tagging it lang: 'ru' causes list-feed-digest.ts:998 to exclude it from every digest request that is not explicitly lang=ru, breaking existing server-side coverage for English-language views of the Europe topic.

[zionappp-ui]

Fixed: removed lang: 'ru' from Moscow Times in both src/config/feeds.ts and server/_feeds.ts (commit 6755d40). Moscow Times is English-language — the tag was incorrect and would have hidden it from all non-Russian views. The English-only tag-free entry is restored.

[zionappp-ui]

Fixed: The Insider reclassified to 'intel' in SOURCE_TYPES — it is an investigative/disinformation-focused outlet, not mainstream news.