In the first year of ‘Russiagate’ coverage, the combined profits from Fox News, MSNBC and CNN increased by 13 percent.
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For the rest of us, it’s another sign of the country’s eroding media and political landscape.
US demonstrators who favor and oppose stricter gun laws, in 2018.
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Legislators in a growing number of democracies are clamping down on civil society. In the United States, it’s happening at the state level.
Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
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Ukrainians have lost faith in the political class – and are looking for new alternatives. Populism and Russia may benefit.
In Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province, on February 26, 2019: a man holds the body of his daughter, killed in a bombardment by pro-Assad forces.
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Giving up means giving the Assad regime and Russia both a strategic and intellectual victory with incalculable consequences for global security.
A solider poses with a Javelin anti-tank system during a military parade in Kiev, Ukraine.
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At worst, more lethal aid could escalate the conflict further. At best, it will continue to keep alive a conflict that has already claimed more than 10,000 lives.
Cars pass the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 25, 2019.
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Russian media outlets are holding up the Mueller report as another example of American dysfunction, with President Trump a symptom of larger problems rather than the man who might solve them.
Members of Jehovah’s Witnesses wait in a court room in Moscow, Russia, on April 20, 2017. Russia’s Supreme Court banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses from operating in the country.
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Last week a Russian, Sergei Skrynnikov, was charged with “participating in an extremist organization” because he is allegedly a Jehovah’s Witness.
A Likud party election campaign billboard outside Jerusalem reads: ‘Netanyahu is a different league’.
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The US president’s tweet declaring the US would recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Syrian territory was unexpected and will do nothing for regional stability.
‘Games without frontiers, war without tears …’
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Five years after Crimea returned to Russia, the east-west stalemate over Ukraine is far from stable.
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime has yet to show it differs from that of Robert Mugabe.
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The debate on sanctions on Zimbabwe has been lost in the southern African region and on the continent.
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If you think Americans are suckers for conspiracies theories, you ought to hear some of the theories that are popular in Putin’s Russia.
Aid from UNICEF being distributed to Syrian refugees at a flooded camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, Jan. 10, 2019.
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The Syrian civil war has ended, but there are millions of Syrian refugees living in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon. With danger from a hostile regime back in Syria, what will happen to them now?
Vietnam’s President Nguyen Phu Trong with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev met in Hanoi on November 19, 2018.
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A small country surrounded by giants such as China, Russia and the United States, Vietnam long ago learned to work with its neighbours and assert its independence.
Metropolitan Epiphanius, head of the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which is newly independent of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Ukraine’s Orthodox Church recently broke off from Russia. This dispute has a history that goes back to medieval Christianity, and continues to shape modern-day politics.
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Revolut recently got an EU banking licence from Lithuania but it’s facing some political headwinds.
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Polar bears ‘invading’ a Russian village have renewed concern over climate change in the Arctic, but human-wildlife conflicts are flaring up everywhere.
The presidents of Russia and Egypt.
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Russia’s efforts to sow discord, discontent and chaos extend far beyond the US, including into leading media outlets in the Arab world.
Angolan President Joao Lourenco and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Johannesburg in 2018.
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has new aspirations in Africa in pursuit of his country’s assertiveness in the global arena.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
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A Cold War era treaty helped dismantle more than 2,500 missiles between the US and Russia.
Artist’s concept of Beresheet on the lunar surface.
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The private space race is about to take another great leap as Israel sends a private lander to the moon.