EPA-EFE/Anatoly Maltsev
Atrocities are made easier when one country’s troops are taught to despise the people they are invading.
Alamy
Peace between Russia and Ukraine will not be the end of the global crisis, say experts.
Damaged buildings ruined by attacks are seen in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine in May 2022.
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Third-country nationals are left powerless in the face of bureaucracies of asylum with only the help of others in the same situation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Russia’s commissioner for entrepreneurs’ rights during a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow on May 26, 2022.
(Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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.
Russia is losing tanks at an astonishing rate.
AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
Weapons manufacturers in China are likely to benefit most from Russia’s losses, while US companies will also see a boon.
A Ukrainain boy sits in a swing at a playground outside a building destroyed during attacks in Irpin, Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kyiv, in May 2022.
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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.
Range, precision and lethality: the Himars missile system.
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Pledges by the US and UK to supply longer-range artillery is really good news for Ukraine, but bad news for the invading Russians.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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President Mohamud’s main challenge is to restore security in the capital Mogadishu and elsewhere.