Youth take part in an action to mark the ninth anniversary of the Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has increasingly turned to education and membership groups to promote patriotism and loyalty among the country’s youth.
The president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, presides over a military parade in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Azerbaijan is positioning itself to play peacemaker at Cop29 in a strategic move to boost its global image.
Pro-Ukraine LGBTQ marchers at the Pride event in London in 2022.
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Ukraine’s LGBTQ soldiers continue to face discrimination and abuse, despite some changing attitudes.
CHess began in India, now India dominates the modern game.
Attila Volgyi/Xinhua/Alamy Live News
Over the centuries Chess has become a proxy for geopolitical conflict where rivalries are played out over a board game.
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A digest of some of the best of our recent coverage of the conflict in Ukraine.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, has been subjected to regular bombardment over nearly three years of war.
EPA-EFE/George Ivanchenko
Buffer zones are supposed to be mutual agreements, not imposed by one side of a conflict on its rival.
A British publisher commissioned photographs of the army in the Crimean War to be used as the basis for oil paintings. Cornet Wilkin, 11th Hussars, by Roger Fenton.
(Roger Fenton/Library of Congress)
A study of images of soldiers from the Crimean to the Iraq War examined how images may be just as significant for what they leave out as for what they reveal about soldiers as individuals.
Satellite image of the aftermath of a large series of explosions at an ammunition depot in Toropets, Russia, on Sept. 18, 2024.
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The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a war of attrition, and most analyses have assumed that plays to Russia’s advantage. But that view disregards the importance of Ukrainian resolve and morale.
A peacekeeper of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The UN faces a crisis because of its failure to address the world’s biggest conflicts.
Roll-call of the dead: a tribute to some of the casualties of the 30-month conflict in Ukraine.
AP Photo/Tony Hicks
Just half of survey respondents wanted to continue fighting to regain all Ukrainian territory including Crimea.
Time to shake up the U.N. Security Counci?
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The permanent members of the UN Security Council have repeatedly used their power of veto to block resolutions relating to mass atrocities. Is it time to revoke that power?
President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un make a toast.
VLADIMIR SMIRNOV/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL/AAP
In Autocracy Inc., Pulitzer winner Anne Applebaum suggests there is a “network” among the world’s autocrats, which they use to further their aims and undermine democracy. But is there?
The Last Word at the Marylebone Theatre.
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The Last Word focuses on the sheer absurdity of putting women on trial for daring to speak out. The women’s speeches are all verbatim transcripts, spoken by one actress.
Ukrainian president Zelensky meets with US secretary of state Antony Blinken and British foreign secretary David Lammy.
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A round-up of all the latest stories relating to the Ukraine war.
Norwegian F-35 Lightning fighters took part in the Arctic Challenge Exercise along with Nato partners in 2023, a cross border training event.
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Russian attempts to use the Arctic as a military resource for the war are starting to be diminished by more effective western pushback.
A Ukrainian soldier patrols in the centre square in Sudzha in the Kursk region of Russia in August 2024.
Fabien Nachi/SOPA/Alamy
Putin could have used the Ukraine offensive into Kursk as an excuse to ramp up conscription.
Inside the studio during an RT broadcast.
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A new study found that pliant local media in Ukraine and Georgia was manipulated by Moscow to present anti-Western narratives.
Vladimir Putin with RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan at the 10th anniversary of the network in Moscow.
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The White House believes it has uncovered a widespread Russian attempt to undermine the 2024 US presidential election.
Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP
Russian leaders have routinely engaged in nuclear sabre-rattling since the Ukraine war began, aimed at curtailing Western support for Kyiv.
German protesters with placards supporting a closer relationship with Russia and calling for no more tanks for Ukraine.
icholas Muller/S/Alamy
East Germans are not the only former members of the Soviet bloc who are moving closer to Putin’s position on the Ukraine war.