Ordinary Ukrainians are committed to defending their country’s sovereignty.
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What ordinary Ukrainians think about the cost of war against Russia.
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Monument to the victims of the mass deportations of Tartar peoples from Crimea.
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Forced relocation of civilian populations is a war crime.
These ‘islands’ are on the move.
Martin Nissen
The new discovery echoes a mission in 1931, when a five-day zeppelin flight sent robots to the stratosphere and redrew the maps of the high Arctic.
‘Kherson is Ukraine’: a show of support for the counteroffensive that aims to push Russian troops out of the southern region.
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Ukrainians who have turned coat and are working for the Russians in occupied regions are being targeted for assassination.
Satellite view of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine.
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Plans to create a safe zone around the massive nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia require Russian agreement, which so far looks unlikely.
Vladimir Putin appears larger than life on screen as he addresses an audience at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on the eighth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea in March 2022.
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There’s no question the Russian population is subject to a Russian media largely loyal to the Kremlin. But that doesn’t mean Vladimir Putin lacks genuine supporters.
The Obelisk, adorned with communist star, was torn down in Riga, Latvia.
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History is not being destroyed but the way people remember is being changed.
Managed blackouts or rationing or power could be required to address the energy crisis this winter.
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Why UK energy rationing is increasingly likely this winter, whether Truss likes it or not.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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The global realignment triggered by the end of the Cold War and Gorbachev’s reforms ushered in a period of transition on the African continent.
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For over a decade, Putin has been systematically destroying Gorbachev’s historic achievements.
‘Run for your lives’: Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russian troops ahead of Ukraine’s southern offensive.
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Tourism resorts around the world have suffered an economic hit with a drop in Russian tourists.
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Resorts around the world are looking to attract travellers from other countries to replace Russian travellers.
Mikhail Gorbachev in 2007 with the editor of independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, holding a book about the murdered reporter Anna Politkovskaya.
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Glasnost was hailed as one of the Soviet leader’s great achievements. But it was a fragile freedom and soon overturned by Vladimir Putin.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a group of 150 business executives in San Francisco in June 1990.
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While Mikhail Gorbachev was feted in the West — he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 — he was widely despised in Russia by those both mourning and celebrating the end of Soviet power.
Mikhail Gorbachev at his news conference following a summit with US President Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1986.
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External changes, including the end of the Cold War, helped lead to the ending of apartheid. Gorbachev played a major role in that process.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev played a significant role in bringing down the wall between eastern and western Europe.
Liberator, failed reformer or architect of Soviet demise?
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Mikhail Gorbachev died at 91 on Aug. 30, 2022. A historian of the Soviet era assesses his impact and the consequences of his failed attempts to reform state socialism.
The Nord Stream pipeline from the Baltic Sea to Germany is regularly being closed this year as Russia restricts gas supply.
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Russia is burning off and wasting millions of pounds of gas rather than supply it to Europe. Here’s why.
A Ukrainian solider is seen in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Aug. 15, 2022.
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While Russia and Ukraine’s war wages on, previous peace talk discussions didn’t appear to include women. Changing that can make a difference, research shows.