Yuri Shevchuk of the band DDT performs in 1987. In May 2022 Shevchuk was charged with a misdemeanor for insulting Russian President Vladimir Putin during a concert.
Joanna Stingray/Getty Images
Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?
A contemporary work of art? No, a protected one. Taken in Kiev, on 18 April.
Romain Huët
The experience of war also inspires non-violent forms of resistance.
EPA-EFE/stringer
A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
AAP Image/Dan Peled
Australia exports most of its coal and gas, and prices have skyrocketed. We could be facing a winter of pain for gas users.
A woman selling produce at the Manzini Wholesale Produce and Craft Market in Swaziland.
Edwin Remsberg/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Monitoring and enforcing competition rules is essential to level the playing field for fairer food markets.
A woman walks past beds at a camp in Bucharest, Romania, ready for an influx of refugees fleeing the war in neighbouring Ukraine in April 2022.
(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
It has taken less than 11 weeks for the Russia-Ukraine conflict to become the greatest trigger for human displacement in Europe since the entire six years of the Second World War.
Pumpjacks draw oil in a canola field near Olds, Alta.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Calls to export Canadian oil and gas to Europe are repackaging ethical oil rhetoric. But Canada and Russia share similarities in energy policy making.
A demonstrator holds a pro-Ukraine sign during a protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Almaty, Kazakhstan — a former Soviet republic that has largely stayed neutral during the conflict — in March 2022.
(AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov)
The war in Ukraine is a seismic event. A weakened Russia will try to take advantage of a poorer, more divided and less secure post-Soviet region.
Russian players including Andrey Rublev competed at the 2022 French Open.
Roger Parker/Alamy
Russian players are competing at the French Open, is this the right move?
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the International Migration Review Forum on May 19, 2022, at United Nations headquarters in New York.
(AP Photo/John Minchillo)
The West isn’t exactly diligent about following international rules of law. It conveniently ignores or sidesteps global rules-based order when it’s convenient.
EPA-EFE/stringer
Both sides are now bracing for a long and bloody war of attrition.
Good to know you! Taiwanese newspapers hail the election of Joe Biden in November 2020.
EPA-EFE/David Chang
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised concerns about China’s intentions towards Taiwan.
President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud during a 2014 media briefing.
Isaac Kasamani/AFP via Getty Images
President Mohamud’s main challenge is to restore security in the capital Mogadishu and elsewhere.
Michael Klimentyev/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool/EPA
Russia’s botched invasion of Ukraine vividly demonstrates the real-world impacts of corruption, with Russian soldiers forced to eat rations years out of date while their leaders bought mega-yachts.
EPA-EFE/Stéphanie Lecocq
Turkey’s veto on Finland and Sweden joining the alliance is part of a complex political game being played by Ankara.
Swedish defence minister Peter Hultqvist visits military base in Adazi, Latvia, in April 2022.
Reuters/Alamy
The nation’s military strengths will add a considerable amount to Nato’s capabilities around the Baltic, an expert says.
Liverpool enjoyed the semi-final against Villarreal.
EPA-EFE/DOMENECH CASTELLO
They may not be funded by gas and oil, but these two sides are big money players.
Oxia Planum on Mars – where the rover was set to land.
Nasa
The European space agency will need both a launch vehicle and a lander platform to launch its ExoMars rover without help from Russia.
Danes will vote in the referendum to end the EU defence opt-out on June 1.
Bo Amstrup / EPA-EFE
EU member states are increasingly turning towards single-issue referendums to decide major constitutional issues.
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Fury personally greets Angelika, the first Ukrainian refugee off the plane at St. John’s, NL, on May 9, 2022.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Greg Locke
The disparate treatment of Ukrainians compared with other refugees to Canada suggests to some an unfairness in our immigration process at best — and systemic racism at worst.