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In late 2021, REvil appeared to shut up shop. But it seems the group, or at least a close genetic descendant, is back in business.
Ukrainian personnel fire a canon in the Kherson area.
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There are 3 reasons why Russia’s loss of Kherson – if Moscow’s claims are accurate – will likely prove decisive for the future of the war, and potentially Putin’s own fortunes too.
Vladmir Putin is very popular in Serbia.
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European leaders have failed to notice how much support Serbia is providing to Russia, an expert says.
Iran’s short-range surface-to-surface Fateh-110 being test-fired in 2010.
UPI/Vahid Reza Alaei/ Iranian Defence Ministry
Iran has showcased these new weapons, with deadly result, in Yemen and Lebanon.
The bombed ruins of buildings in Mariupol after Russian attacks.
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Vladimir Putin has updated his siege tactics as Ukraine enters a winter war
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Eight million Ukrainians have fled abroad since the invasion started.
Two protestors, one wrapped in the Belarusian opposition flag and the other in the Ukrainian, walk side by side in Berlin calling for peace in Ukraine on February 27, 2022.
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While Belarus is rightly seen as a co-aggressor in Russia’s war on Ukraine, its future involvement in the conflict is open to speculation. One thing is certain: a majority of Belarusians oppose it.
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There are 3 reasons why we shouldn’t discount the possibility that defeat in Ukraine might make the Kremlin’s edifice crumble.
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There are political risks to even floating the idea. But a summit could conceivably reset the discourse around a war currently stuck dangerously in cycles of escalation.
Jacinda Ardern addressing the UN General Assembly in September 2022.
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Small states have limited power to influence global events, but New Zealand can still up its game in an increasingly lawless and dangerous world.
For one, the writing may be on the wall too.
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People understand the world through the stories they are told and tell, a historian writes. In the case of the war in Ukraine, narratives can create problems.
People with old Belarusian national flags march during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, in October 2020. Tens of thousands rallied to demand the resignation of the country’s authoritarian leader.
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The benevolence shown to Belarusian exiles in 2020 has turned into hostility because of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. How is it fair to blame citizens for the actions of a regime they despise?
On 22 July 2022, President Andrzej Duda chose to ratify the NATO protocol on the accession of Sweden and Finland to the Alliance on a Polish warship.
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By the end of the decade, Poland’s arms capacity could exceed that of the French, German, UK, Italian, Dutch and Belgian forces combined.
Major concern: a simulation of the explosion of a ‘dirty bomb’ in Seattle, US, in 2003.
Ken Lambert/Seattle Times/EPA
Western analysts believe Russia’s accusations are a ‘false flag’ operation designed to shift the blame for any use of WMDs on to Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, hands a bunch of flowers to Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill during a ceremony presenting him the Order of St. Andrew in the Kremlin in Moscow in November 2021. Both men have accused the West of trying to impose LGBTQ+ rights on Russia.
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The Russian state, in tandem with the Russian Orthodox Church, is using LGBTQ+ rights as a red-button issue to win support for its criminal war campaign in Ukraine.
Brrr: a trench in the Donetsk region of east Ukraine where fighting has been going on since 2014.
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The gruelling winter months have arrived in Ukraine and both sides are digging in for a long few months of sub-zero temperatures.
President Xi Jinping at the Communist Party Congress on October 16.
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How the crises in geopolitics and the world economy could affect us over the next two to five years.
EPA-EFE/Gavril GrigorovSputnik/Kremlin pool
The Kremlin has a range of non-nuclear options for putting more pressure on Ukraine and the west.
Eric Blair, aka George Orwell, from his Metropolitan Police file c.1940.
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In today’s world, propaganda thrives and manipulation is rife, but in ways that Orwell never envisioned.
The aftermath of a drone attack on Kyiv, October 17 2022.
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.