Crimea has been a battleground and a playground. Why it's coveted by both Russia and Ukraine
Russia's annexation of Crimea was recognized internationally only by countries such as North Korea and Sudan. In Russia, it ...
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Ukraine’s Forbidden Frescoes
A woman’s face emerges from the many exposed layers of plaster. The cheeks have lost their glow. The crack that cuts through the fine contours and has claimed one eye is only scarcely closed with ...
Ukrainian forces fighting inside Russia are almost surrounded, open source maps show
Thousands of Ukrainian troops who stormed into Russia's Kursk region last summer in a shock incursion are nearly surrounded ...
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Five Ukrainian Fables
The Ukrainian ambassador in 2016 wrote an op ... to triangulate China against the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan offered to share missile defense expertise with Soviet Russia. Europeans have hosted ...
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Ukraine’s Jews embrace a Ukrainian identity
The last page is a prayer for peace in Ukraine. For centuries, as Ukraine was controlled by the Russian Empire and then the Soviet Union, Ukrainian Jews read prayers only in Hebrew and Russian. But ...
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The soft suiting brand inspired by Soviet-era cinema
It was especially the colour palette of terracotta, wormwood, dusted greens, turquoise, and lemon yellow that attracted her to the 80s film, set in Soviet-era Moscow. ‘Maybe I’m a romantic, but that ...
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The European Union Film Festival honours Ukrainian stories with its 16th edition
Photograph: Courtesy Jan Lemiech / European Union Film Festival 2025 marks the third year since Russia launched its war against Ukraine, so the EUFF is honouring the plight of the Ukrainian people ...
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Washington – Kiev: what future?
either Kiev decides to pursue a peace agreement as outlined by the United States, or it will have to continue fighting alone without American military and financial support. The European Union is ...
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Second-ever privately funded space craft touches down on moon
Pic: AP Only five nations have been successful in soft-landings in the past: The then-Soviet Union, the US, China, India and Japan. Dr Nicola Fox, from NASA's Science Mission Directorate ...
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Is Ukraine Now Doomed?
President Donald Trump has given Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky an ultimatum ... ran out of funds while Congress debated the next aid package. The European Union also approved using frozen ...
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Trump’s Abrupt Turn to Russia—and Whether a U.S.-Russia Team Could Gain Any Sway in South and Southeast Asia
In some ways, this would vaguely resemble a reverse Kissinger—Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon had courted China, which was already splitting with the Soviet Union, to build a U.S.-China front ...