While the filmmakers never received any explanation for the ban, they believe the film’s positive depiction of the west undermined the Russian media.
Ukrainian soldiers head toward the strategic town of Bakhmut on 20 may 2023, days before the start of the counteroffensive launched in early June.
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A year after two stays several weeks-long in war-torn Ukraine, ethnographer Romain Huet has gone back there. From Kiev to the Donbas, he’s on a quest to understand how the war has changed Ukrainians.
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant seen across the Dnieper River, which was receding after a downstream dam was destroyed.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency says the plant has enough water to last for several months. What happens afterward or if the remaining water is lost to the war could lead to a disaster.
The IOC has an opportunity to disavow the violence and illegality of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by extending the platform and status of refugee athletes to Russian and Belarusian athletes.
Russian troops outside the Perevalne military base near Simferopol, Crimea.
Stephen Foote/Alamy
If the west had paid more attention to the Russian invasion of Crimea, it may have avoided a Ukraine war.
Ukrainian soldiers in a trench under Russian shelling on the frontline close to Ukraine’s Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, on March 5, 2023.
(AP Photo/Libkos)
The Battle of Bakhmut embodies Russia’s ill-planned war in Ukraine. Even if it succeeds in taking the city, the divisions it’s created within its armed forces will erode Russia’s ultimate aims.
In Poland, hundreds of marchers carry the Ukrainian flag.
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About 1.5 million refugees are still there, with some putting down roots.
Ukrainian designer Margarita Chala stands next to shoes symbolizing war crimes committed against Ukrainian civilians at the Old Town Square in Prague in 2023.
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Trauma can affect how people remember and describe experiences. Many survivors express their pain through objects and physical symptoms, an anthropologist explains.
A Ukrainian soldier uses a commercial drone to monitor the front line in eastern Ukraine.
Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
The war in Ukraine has dramatically increased the use of drones in warfare, from repurposed consumer quadcopters to flying bombs to remotely piloted warplanes.
In war, it’s not the size or sophistication of the technology, but how it’s used – especially in combinations.
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A year ago, the Ukrainian military was largely equipped with Soviet-era weapons. It has since seen an influx of high-tech weapons. But it’s less what than how that’s made a difference.
Putin has survived with a little help from his friends.
Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
A new book argues the war against Ukraine is an escalation of an ongoing hybrid war of ‘Russia’ against ‘the West’ – and that only ‘real and credible force’ will make Putin step back from aggression.
Red-breasted geese breed mainly on Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula and migrate to areas adjacent to the Black Sea in Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria.
Daniel Mitev
Russia has vast natural resources and is involved in many conservation efforts. Its diplomatic isolation as a result of the war in Ukraine is making it harder to protect many wild species and places.
People protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, over daily power cuts, July 27, 2022.
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Russia tried to weaponize energy to keep European nations from opposing its war in Ukraine, but the real pain from Putin’s actions and Western sanctions has been felt far from Europe.
Pictured, left to right: Mohammed El-Kurd, Louise Adler and Susan Abulhawa.
Calls have erupted to cancel two writers from Adelaide Writers’ Week – including from South Australia’s Opposition leader. Why? And are they justified? Denis Muller weighs the evidence.
Maitre de conférences en sciences de la communication, Chercheur au PREFICS (Plurilinguismes, Représentations, Expressions Francophones, Information, Communication, Sociolinguistique), Université Rennes 2