Damaged buildings ruined by attacks are seen in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine in May 2022.
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Third-country nationals are left powerless in the face of bureaucracies of asylum with only the help of others in the same situation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Russia’s commissioner for entrepreneurs’ rights during a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow on May 26, 2022.
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Russia’s war in Ukraine calls for drawing a line between power and luck. Putin, who was widely considered among the most powerful people in the world, may have been simply lucky.
Russia is losing tanks at an astonishing rate.
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Weapons manufacturers in China are likely to benefit most from Russia’s losses, while US companies will also see a boon.
A Ukrainain boy sits in a swing at a playground outside a building destroyed during attacks in Irpin, Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kyiv, in May 2022.
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Ukraine is facing a struggle for survival. Its population could fall to 30 million by the time the war ends, with cities destroyed, crops expropriated and thousands already killed and wounded.
Range, precision and lethality: the Himars missile system.
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Pledges by the US and UK to supply longer-range artillery is really good news for Ukraine, but bad news for the invading Russians.
Yuri Shevchuk of the band DDT performs in 1987. In May 2022 Shevchuk was charged with a misdemeanor for insulting Russian President Vladimir Putin during a concert.
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Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?
A contemporary work of art? No, a protected one. Taken in Kiev, on 18 April.
Romain Huët
The experience of war also inspires non-violent forms of resistance.
A pop-up memorial in The Hague for those lives lost crossing into Europe.
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The world’s indifference to Black African refugees is its own form of trauma.
A woman walks past beds at a camp in Bucharest, Romania, ready for an influx of refugees fleeing the war in neighbouring Ukraine in April 2022.
(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
It has taken less than 11 weeks for the Russia-Ukraine conflict to become the greatest trigger for human displacement in Europe since the entire six years of the Second World War.
Pumpjacks draw oil in a canola field near Olds, Alta.
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Calls to export Canadian oil and gas to Europe are repackaging ethical oil rhetoric. But Canada and Russia share similarities in energy policy making.
A demonstrator holds a pro-Ukraine sign during a protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Almaty, Kazakhstan — a former Soviet republic that has largely stayed neutral during the conflict — in March 2022.
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The war in Ukraine is a seismic event. A weakened Russia will try to take advantage of a poorer, more divided and less secure post-Soviet region.
Russian players including Andrey Rublev competed at the 2022 French Open.
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Russian players are competing at the French Open, is this the right move?
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the International Migration Review Forum on May 19, 2022, at United Nations headquarters in New York.
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The West isn’t exactly diligent about following international rules of law. It conveniently ignores or sidesteps global rules-based order when it’s convenient.
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Both sides are now bracing for a long and bloody war of attrition.
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Russia’s botched invasion of Ukraine vividly demonstrates the real-world impacts of corruption, with Russian soldiers forced to eat rations years out of date while their leaders bought mega-yachts.
Swedish defence minister Peter Hultqvist visits military base in Adazi, Latvia, in April 2022.
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The nation’s military strengths will add a considerable amount to Nato’s capabilities around the Baltic, an expert says.
Liverpool enjoyed the semi-final against Villarreal.
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They may not be funded by gas and oil, but these two sides are big money players.
Ukraine is a major supplier of wheat globally but exports from the Black Sea ports are now blocked by the Russians.
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Food prices are not the only issue to worry about as the world starts to feel the economic fallout from the Ukraine war.
McDonald’s is leaving Russia after three decades of operating there.
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Corporate pressure campaigns usually work best in partnership with local institutions. While Russia’s civic organizations are generally weak, there are some signs of growing defiance.
A stray polar bear is seen outside Oktyabrsky mine on the outskirts of the Russian industrial city of Norilsk in 2019.
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The war in Ukraine threatens to turn back the clock on Russia’s climate progress, with some calling on the country to leave the Paris Agreement and roll back environmental regulations.