A kindergarten in Kharkiv, Ukraine, destroyed by Russian shelling.
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The deportation of children during war goes to the heart of important and far-reaching human rights conventions. But bringing perpetrators to justice will be a long and complex process.
Finnish military personnel raise their country’s flag at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
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A historian looks at the steps leading up to Finland joining the Western strategic alliance – and what that means for small nations elsewhere.
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More than 5,000 documents were leaked by an anonymous whistleblower.
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What started as a short military operation will now take years and years. Changing its tune is all in a day’s work for the Kremlin.
Russian rhetoric about Ukraine echoes language used in the second world war by the Soviets seeking to stem independence movements. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin insisted on Ukraine getting a separate vote to the USSR at the United Nations, even though it wasn’t an independent state.
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Putin’s rhetoric over Ukraine has roots in the end of the second world war, attitudes explained by Paul Winterton, a British journalist at the time.
Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Vladimir Putin at the first Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, Russia, in 2019.
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The government must not trample on its own laws and court decisions. Compliance with the constitution must be the priority.
Crimea: as pro-Moscow citizens celebrate nine years of Russian occupation, talk of Kyiv’s plans to retake the peninsula grows louder.
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Russia is reportedly preparing massive defences to prevent a lightning offensive to retake the occupied peninsula.
Georgians protest a foreign agent bill that mirrored a Russian law used to crack down on dissent.
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Foreign agent laws claimed as a tool to fight back against foreign interference can also be used to silence critics and repress law-abiding NGOs, independent media and individuals.
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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Ecological damage, risk of nuclear accident and the economic fallout from war all affect countries well beyond the conflict zone. How should the world deal with these borderless threats?
The Moscow meeting between presidents Xi and Putin seems to signal a deepening of their alliance.
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History shows us why China and Russia want to form a strong alliance.
Opening the doors to Russia and China’s perception.
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The setting was grand, so too was the plan. But behind the peace plan put forward by China and welcomed by Russia, is the question, what do both nations seek?
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The International Criminal Court sets a high bar for prosecuting heads of state for crimes committed while they are in power.
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The recent Iran-Saudi Arabia diplomatic truce brokered by Beijing heightens expectations of Xi’s visit. But the Ukraine case is vastly different.
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Maria Lvova-Belova, wanted by the ICC along with Vladimir Putin, is one of a handful of women to be prosecuted in international criminal law.
Crime scene? Vladimir Putin visits Mariupol, which Russia captured in May 2022 after the deaths of thousands, including many civilians.
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The list of crimes for which Putin is considered complicit is long. The question is whether he can be held accountable.
A woman wrapped in the Ukrainian flag shouts through a megaphone during a demonstration in front of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, in March 2022.
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The International Criminal Court’s charges against Vladimir Putin are likely to have a minimal impact on him, but it does signal that wartime atrocities have consequences — and the world is watching.
Former President Donald Trump reacts to the crowd after he finished speaking at a campaign rally in support of Sen. Marco Rubio in Miami in November.
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The newest class of right-wing populists aims to not only dismantle the guardrails of democracy, but also the most fundamental principles of the rule of law. We must prepare.
A Reaper drone like the one downed over the Black Sea costs about US$56 million, according to the Pentagon.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict over the past fortnight.
Marina Tauber, vice-president of Moldova’s Russia-friendly Shor Party, leads a demonstration in the capital, Chisinau, against the pro-western government and low living standards.
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There are fears that Russia might try to compensate for its poor performance in Ukraine by upping its meddling in neighbouring countries.
Ukrainian soldiers in a trench under Russian shelling on the frontline close to Ukraine’s Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, on March 5, 2023.
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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.