Defiant: everyday life in Kyiv, July 2022.
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Ukraine is losing this war at the moment. The west needs to massively step up its military aid to the country.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, widely known as Jokowi.
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Despite vague results of what the shuttle diplomacy will contribute to the world, at least the visits resemble Indonesia’s, if not Jokowi’s, own interest.
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Set in Ukraine in 2014, Solntsepyok’s propaganda is designed to confuse, entertain and overwhelm the audience.
Giving Russia the finger: drinkers in Kyiv enjoy the iconic image of defiance from Russia’s capture of Snake Island early in the war.
EPA-EFE/Oleg Petrasyuk
Beyond a symbolic win, reclaiming Snake Island has strategic repercussions, from the opening of a safe corridor to the diplomatic confrontation between Moscow and the west.
Word from The Hill: People’s pockets hit again, with rate rise and floods set to boost veggie prices
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with Peter Browne from the politics + society team
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A heartening 70% of British voters want to allow Ukrainians into the UK but only 50% feel the same way about Afghans. And the difference is even starker among those who vote Conservative.
People wait for Ukrainian nationals fleeing the ongoing war to arrive at Trudeau Airport in Montréal on May 29, 2022.
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Canadian refugee and immigration policy often leads with the head and the heart — and that works.
The US is deploying more troops closer to European allies’ borders with Russia.
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US plans to add more combat-ready forces in eastern Europe to send a strong message to Russia.
A Russian foreign debt will have limited implications for global financial markets but will affect Russia’s credit risk profile.
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Experts discuss the implications of Russia’s recent debt default for the global financial markets and Russia’s reputation
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The prime minister sent a message to the Chinese government that it should learn the lessons from Russia’s ‘strategic failure’ in Ukraine.
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Bringing aid to the residents of bomb-ravaged cities becomes all the more difficult and perilous when the front line is just a stone’s throw away.
Russia has pioneered the concept of digital sovereignty and used it to severely restrict Russians’ access to the internet.
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For more than a decade, the Russian government has been putting teeth into its doctrine of ‘digital sovereignty’ by steadily increasing censorship of content and control over internet access.
Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-born German revolutionary and co-founder of the German Communist Party, addressing a meeting in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1907. She was assassinated in January 1919.
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Antisemitism has been used as a weapon against leading Jewish politicians in Europe for over a century – no matter how assimilated they were. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy is no exception.
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Word from The Hill: Parliamentary ‘newbies’ inspect their workplace, with some complaints
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with Peter Browne from the politics + society team
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Four months since the start of invasion, the European Union has already adopted six sanction packages. Room for manoeuvre is shrinking.
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Boycott actions often do more harm to individual athletes than to the condemned regime.
Kaliningrad is separated from the ‘motherland’ by Lithuania.
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A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
Stuck in the middle: the border between Lithuania and Russia’s exclave at Kaliningrad.
EPA-EFE/Valda Kalnina
A small piece of Russian territory on the Baltic coast has become the focus of heightened tensions on Nato’s fringe.
Snake Island, seen here in commemorative postage stamps, has become a symbol of Ukraine’s resistance.
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As the war drags on and its maritime dimension intensifies, Russia is more likely to be strategically defeated in the long term.
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There remains a significant danger the conflict falls off the international radar, or that Western leaders waver as the conflict drags on.