Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko has not been successful at persuading his citizens to back the Ukraine war.
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Some Belarusians have even become directly involved in the conflict to support the Ukrainians.
A U.S. Air Force fighter jet takes off from RAF Lakenheath in the U.K. in 2018. American nuclear weapons may soon be hosted there.
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NATO members, particularly those in eastern Europe, fear a Russian invasion of their territory. By stationing some of its nuclear weapons in the U.K. again, the U.S. could ease those fears.
People wave Russian, Palestinian and Hamas flags.
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The Gaza war has complicated issues in Ukraine, with Putin looking to exploit events in the Middle East to garner support among the Global South.
Vladimir Putin lays flowers at a monument to Peter the Great in Baltiisk, western Russia.
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The forthcoming March election in Russia is likely to mean another victory for Vladimir Putin, who remains popular, for now.
A suspected Russian collaborator arrested in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Liberated cities are prone to vigilante justice against those accused of conspiring with the enemy.
Under pressure: with things on the battlefield not going well, the last thing Volodymyr Zelensky needs is a corruption scandal in the military.
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As a new Russian offensive gets under way, Ukraine can ill afford to be mired in scandal and disunity.
Ukrainians observe a minute of silence in Kyiv on Oct. 1, 2023.
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As war drags on, more Ukrainians say that they are prepared to negotiate – but the majority still reject any deal with Russia.
Protesters in Niger’s capital Niamey hold a Russian flag and banner with images of coup leaders in Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea.
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Niger’s recent military romance with Russia could escalate tensions with France, regional allies and the European Union.
A woman with flowers walks past a building fortified with sandbags in the Podil neighborhood of Kyiv, Ukraine.
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The fragility of peace settlements in the Balkans provides a cautionary tale. US and EU policymakers may inadvertently make matters worse by acceding to the aggressor’s territorial ambitions.
The Daily Mail, which had previously been positive about Hitler and the brownshirts, enthusiastically supported Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement.
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How newspapers reported the risk of war in the age of appeasement.
belonging hard work landscape.
The army has released a new recruitment video on social media that resembles a Fortnite-style game.
A Communist Party supporter holds a portrait of Josef Stalin in Red Square in Moscow.
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The whitewashing of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his crimes is crucial for understanding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imperialist ideology and goals.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, a city on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far east.
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Putin is planning to bring a mass tourism industry to Russia’s wild far east.
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New statistics show a spike in the amount of journalists jailed in the country. To protect its democracy, Israel needs to be transparent about why members of the media are arrested.
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A selection of our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past fortnight.
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Ukraine is short of men and military equipment. It urgently needs security guarantees from the west.
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The next world war might take everyone by surprise.
Ukraine claims to have destroyed a Russian A-50 early warning aircraft.
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The downing of two important Russian aircraft show how stretched the invaders’ air force has become.
Pavel Sulyandziga, a Russian Indigenous activist, poses with his family in 2017 in Yarmouth, Maine, where he awaits a decision on political asylum.
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More than six years after Pavel Sulyandziga, an Indigenous activist from Russia, left the country to seek political asylum in the US, he continues to face harassment by the Russian government.
US treasury secretary Janet Yellen.
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Geopolitical shifts that are dividing the world could create problems for the US dollar, traditionally the dominant currency globally for trade and investment.