Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
Russia is dragging its feet on climate action - and risks being left out in the cold.
EPA/Yuri Kochetkov/Pool
Europe’s efforts to counter Russian propaganda may need to be stepped up.
Russian drone footage showing the bombed aid convoy en route to Aleppo.
EPA/Russian Defence Ministry
The war of words over a bombed UN convoy in Syria is just the latest in a long series of diplomatic breakdowns.
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A new Russian hack has claimed to reveal the details of so-called therapeutic use exemptions. But could transparency in this area be a benchmark for the fight against drugs in sport?
Turning plastic into fuel in Aleppo.
EPA
As a new cessation of hostilities comes into force, Russia’s influence over the Syrian conflict is deepening.
Watching over them no longer.
EPA/Dmitry Chebotayev
Central Asia’s most populous country is stagnant and repressive, but its two massive neighbours want in now Islam Karimov is gone.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in center.
REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating has not dropped below 80 percent since March 2014. Russians overwhelmingly support their president’s aggression in Georgia and Crimea. Here’s why.
Seeking a peaceful handover of power between parties and political opponents.
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It’s true that sophisticated hackers may be able to tilt the presidential election. But the more likely threat to democracy comes from sore losers who sow doubt about voting integrity.
Russia is flexing its cyberattack muscles.
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What do we know about Russia’s cyber strategy, capabilities, and intentions? This top-notch adversary is more advanced and stealthier than any other.
EPA/Sedat Suna
Ankara’s real target in Syria is the Kurds, but is Turkey getting bogged down on too many fronts?
Kremlin/Ru
Cooperation between Tehran and Moscow is strictly limited to Syria.
Portrait of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, by Vasily Perov (1872).
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When penning his novel ‘Demons,’ Fyodor Dostoevsky was influenced by political turmoil in Russia. But his impulsive, crass antagonist bears a striking similarity to the GOP’s candidate for president.
Some fear that Chinese investment will lead to a painful trade-off between Ukraine’s desperate economic needs and its long-standing democratic dream.
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Ukraine desperately needs Chinese investment but, like many other countries in this position, this is giving rise to concerns about the consequences for its fragile democracy.
Jim Thorpe and Ben Johnson were both banned from the Olympics. But if each had played at different points in history, they would have been allowed to compete.
Nick Lehr/The Conversation
In sports, what’s considered fair play has changed throughout history. At one point, even looking ‘too poor’ was grounds for exclusion.
A girl stands near fighters in Aleppo. August 7, 2016.
REUTERS/Rodi Said
The survival of civilians seem forgotten in a new U.S. and Russian agreement to root out IS and other terrorists in Syria.
Journalism has always been key to the way the world understands Russia – and its leaders have long known that.
Here’s hoping…
EPA/Pavel Golovkin
Two of East Asia’s biggest powers are still technically at war and deadlocked over contested territories. Now one of them wants to be friends.
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In the West, the public perception of Stalin and the Terror lingers from the period immediately after his death in 1953. It shouldn’t.
Do PEDs make athletes less human?
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As technology becomes fully integrated into our everyday lives, we may see athletes as the last vestiges of our humanity.
Defrosting.
Alexey Nikolsky/RIA Novosti/EPA
In the space of two days, Turkey showed more diplomatic goodwill than it has in the last two years. Why?