The Ukraine war has prompted thousands of Russian Jews to flee the country, an expert investigates why.
US president Joe Biden speaks with his ‘old friend’, CIA director William J Burns (left), during a national security team meeting in the White House.
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With a formidable Kremlinologist in charge and Donald Trump out of the presidential picture, has the CIA regained its influence amid the ‘new cold war’?
New Zealanders fighting in Ukraine are facing significant risks, with no official support from the government. The fighters’ motives may be noble but are they muddying the waters?
Firefighters battle a blaze caused by a Russian attack near Kyiv at the beginning of the Ukraine war.
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Ukraine is marking its 31st year of independence on Aug. 24, 2022. A scholar of protest movements explains why Ukrainians have never taken its independence for granted.
Zhanna Dynaeva and Serhiy Dynaev stand with a cat inside their house, which was destroyed by Russian bombardment, in the village of Novoselivka, Ukraine, Aug. 13, 2022.
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An anthropologist explains how years of conflict have made Ukrainians reassess their priorities and relationships.
Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in March, and now have taken it over. It’s the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.
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Ukraine’s biggest nuclear plant has many safety measures, but could not cope with direct bombing.
Crimea’s ports have been recognised as strategically important for centuries. Here, celebrations of the memorial of defence of Sevastopol in 1941-42 were cancelled due to a Ukrainian military strike.
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Ukraine is partnering with an advertising company to produce an innovative nation branding campaign during a war. The campaign could have influence beyond how Ukraine and Russia conduct this war.
Polish volunteers give Ukrainian refugees food in May 2022.
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A scholar of humanitarianism sums up what she saw on the ground during a five-week research trip to Poznań, Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow and several smaller cities along the Poland-Ukraine border.
People attend an exhibition of Russian equipment destroyed by the armed forces of Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine, Aug. 11, 2022.
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Democratic nation-states were supposed to be the legitimate successors of empires. It hasn’t quite worked out that way in the past century, and Russia’s war on Ukraine is a reflection of that.
Soviet-era monument in Riga, Latvia, which was splashed with the colours of the Ukraine flag the day after Russia invaded in February 2022.
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Unrest in the Balkans might be orchestrated by Russia, but the crisis is also an opportunity for the west.
The first ship out of Odesa since the start of the Russian blockade was the Sierra Leone-flagged ship Razoni, carrying 26,000 tons of corn.
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Russia has secured gains in the east but Ukraine is pushing back in the south.
Added firepower: US MLRS systems being used during a live-fire training exercise in Minnesota, July 2022.
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In terms of stated war aims, some sort of Russian ‘victory’ — albeit a costly one — is closer than the sort of victory upon which Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pinned his hopes.