The cruelties of the Soviet Union as you’ve never read them before
Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...
Marc Champion: The hoary – and false – myths about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
With President-elect Donald Trump expected to quickly try bringing an end to the war in Ukraine after taking office, I want ...
The Africa Report22h
A chance of renewal for pan‑African organisations
Conservative leaders such as Ethiopia’s Haile Selassie and Côte d’Ivoire’s Félix Houphouët-Boigny, backed by the US and ...
The American Spectator2d
Max Boot’s Dirty War on the Reagan Doctrine
When the important writer Max Boot released his ten-year study of Ronald Reagan recently, it won a nice roll-out from the ...
Alaska Dispatch News2dOpinion
Opinion: What you think you know about Ukraine is probably wrong
With President-elect Donald Trump expected to quickly try bringing an end to the war in Ukraine after taking office, I want ...
Putin says he saved Russia, but a year of challenges suggests Moscow’s position is precarious
Marking 25 years in office, Vladimir Putin says he has remade Russia as a sovereign power and will prevail in Ukraine, but ...
The ‘Carol of the Bells’ comes from Ukraine’s fight for independence
It’s the historic repetition of that Ukrainian folk song over centuries – the one Americans know as “Carol of the Bells” -- ...
The Cipher Brief9d
In Lithuania, Fears of Being ‘Next on the Menu’ for Russian Aggression
Former Senior CIA Officer Ralph Goff discusses the Baltic States' fears about Russia's creeping influence across Eastern Europe.
The Mirror US on MSN5d
WW3 fears as US is warned: 'Prepare for Putin's land grab to re-establish Soviet Union’
Leaders in the US and Europe have been urged to prepare for conflict with Russia as a deal to end the Ukraine war 'will not ...
Russia is intensifying its air war in Ukraine. A secretive factory is ramping up drone production to fuel the offensive
A manufacturing plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region has significantly scaled up its production of Iranian-designed drones, ...
RBC Ukraine on MSN6d
Russia prepares propaganda campaign for Yalta Conference anniversary
Russian authorities and Crimean occupation officials plan to hold a televised event to mark the anniversary of the Yalta ...
The Hindu28d
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan reach deal on last contested Central Asian border
“Russia is the legal successor of the Soviet Union; there are archive documents and maps in Moscow,” Kyrgyz Security Council Secretary Marat Imankulov said at the time. But there was no sign ...