People who fled the war in Ukraine rest inside an indoor gymnasium being used as a refugee centre in the village of Medyka, a border crossing between Poland and Ukraine, on March 15, 2022.
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The European Union is once again faced with the danger of destabilization. Putin’s cyberwar on free societies using the migration crisis went well in 2015. He must not succeed now in Poland or beyond.
Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe demonstrate against the war in Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022 in Strasbourg, eastern France.
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As we observe with the war in Ukraine, humanities skills are crucial for understanding 21st-century problems.
Allies? Or client and patron: Belarus president, Alexandr Lukashenko, and Russian president, Vladimir Putin, after Kremlin talks in February 2022.
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Belarus president Alexandr Lukashenko has a difficult decision to make if he wants to help his ally Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.
Putin has psychological control over his people.
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How do you solve a problem like Putin? What is needed is a two-level game.
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As the invasion continues, humanitarian workers could become a target of the Russian army.
Cardiff Philharmonic came under fire for removing the Russian composer Tchaikovsky from its performance schedule, in response to the Ukraine war.
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Russian citizens in the west are being targeted in much the same way Germans, Italians, and Japanese were during the second world war.
U.K. politician Winston Churchill with U.S. President Harry Truman on March 3, 1946, leaving for Missouri, where Churchill would make a speech warning about the dangers of the Iron Curtain.
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The way two presidents used language to ask Americans to support intervening in a foreign conflict shows the power of a leader who uses plain speaking – and sets limits on intervention.
A woman looks at a computer screen as Russian state news editor Marina Ovsyannikova protests the Ukraine war during a news segment.
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Russia is cracking down on freedom of speech and media. But other factors, like outside online information, could make it difficult to control war propaganda - and block out other information.
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More can be done to prioritise protection against highly transmittable and serious diseases, such as polio and measles.
Everyday Russians, like these people in Moscow, may shoulder much of the burden of the world’s economic sanctions aimed at Vladimir Putin and his oligarchs.
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Personalist dictators tend to shield the elites who support them from the economic pain of sanctions by pushing costs onto regular people.
Firefighters extinguish fires in an apartment building after being hit by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 15, 2022.
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Seizing Kharkiv or Kyiv is going to take time and heavy use of artillery— called ‘the God of War’ by Joseph Stalin — if it happens at all.
Kenyan food vendors at an open-air market on the outskirts of Nairobi.
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In spite of public disapproval, food prices are likely to remain high this year unless the government intervenes to cushion farmers from rising costs.
A man walks past the remains of a house of culture following a night air raid in the village of Byshiv, 40 kilometres west of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022.
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Social media has helped draw people’s attention towards the crisis in Ukraine, but consuming richer forms of Ukrainian culture will need to happen in order to sustain that attention.
Red briefcase time again.
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The UK may be facing the worst economic conditions in many years, but the chancellor may prefer not to be overly helpful.
A coal power plant in Niederaussem, Germany.
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The ‘Energiewende’ relies on gas as a bridge between a coal-powered past and renewable future.
Putin sees himself as a ‘man of destiny’ for post-Soviet Russia.
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Ukraine war: Vladimir Putin is struggling to convince people why history is on his side – both internationally and at home.
Slovenia Prime Minister Janez Jansa (left), Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Fiala (second from left) and Poland Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (third from left) meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a visit to Kyiv on behalf of the European Council on March 16, 2022.
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The Russian invasion has triggered an outpouring of support for Ukraine from European countries. Will Putin’s gamble backfire and ultimately push Ukraine firmly into the European fold?
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War is a gender issue in many ways, but the coverage of Ukraine shows how the portrayals of men and women are changing.
Refugees on the platform of Lviv railway station are seen waiting for trains to Poland.
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Ukraine has one of the highest rates of multidrug-resistant TB in the world.
Heat of the battle: a Russian tank convoy is ambushed in the town of Brovary east of Kiev, March 2022.
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Five senior Russian officers have now been reported killed in three weeks.