Most Russians get their news from government-controlled television. But those who look to Telegram, an online platform, are more likely to have views that break from the official position.
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The idea of a ‘witch’ was usually female in Western Europe, but not so in Orthodox Russia – partly because of the period’s rigid social hierarchies.
The prosecution and death sentences handed out to two British and one Moroccan national fighting alongside Ukrainian troops contravenes the Geneva Conventions.
Many predicted Russia’s currency would just keep plunging, but it hasn’t.
Russia’s military planners were not expecting such fierce Ukrainian resistance, especially in regions it has occupied since 2014.
Treatment of POWs by Ukraine and Russia is breaking international rules.
A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
The two Britons have rights under the laws of war. It’s not clear they are being respected.
Atrocities are made easier when one country’s troops are taught to despise the people they are invading.
Negotiations between Russia and Turkey to ensure safe passage of Ukrainian grain hint at a new era of global food diplomacy.
Peace between Russia and Ukraine will not be the end of the global crisis, say experts.
Third-country nationals are left powerless in the face of bureaucracies of asylum with only the help of others in the same situation.
Russia’s war in Ukraine calls for drawing a line between power and luck. Putin, who was widely considered among the most powerful people in the world, may have been simply lucky.
Weapons manufacturers in China are likely to benefit most from Russia’s losses, while US companies will also see a boon.
Ukraine is facing a struggle for survival. Its population could fall to 30 million by the time the war ends, with cities destroyed, crops expropriated and thousands already killed and wounded.
Pledges by the US and UK to supply longer-range artillery is really good news for Ukraine, but bad news for the invading Russians.
Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?
The experience of war also inspires non-violent forms of resistance.
The world’s indifference to Black African refugees is its own form of trauma.
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.
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor of International Relations, Jean Monnet Professor of European Security, National University Odesa Law Academy
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Military History, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Nottingham
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Professor of International Relations and Security, University of Bradford
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Lecturer in Modern European History, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Assistant Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Professor of International Security, University of Bath
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Associate Professor of Security and International Relations, Staffordshire University
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Senior Lecturer in Military Strategy and Law, University of Portsmouth
