Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov are intent on growing Russia’s African influence.
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Russia is trying to normalise an international order where might makes right. And democracy and respect for human rights are optional.
Former president Donald Trump tosses hats into the crowd before addressing attendees during an event in on July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Fla.
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For our societies to survive, we must take action to figure out the psychology behind an attraction to tyrants — or we will be led in the future by fear-mongering, war-mongering tyrannical liars.
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No one knows what Vladimir Putin’s peace terms for Ukraine might be, but the risk of war spreading means the West must propose its own.
Another big table, but this time Vladimir Putin isn’t sitting at the head.
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A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
All smiles: Russian president Vladimir Putin, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan meeting in Tehran, July 2022.
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This is not so much an alliance as a coalition of the isolated.
Crimea has been an important strategic outpost for Russia during the war.
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Crimea has been a very important strategic outpost for Russia, which is why Moscow is threatening “doomsday” if Ukraine attacks.
A pro-EU protest in Tbilisi, Georgia, in June 2022.
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Russia’s neighbours are increasingly worried about the threat of invasion.
Rescue workers stand on the rubble following a Russian rocket attack on a residential apartment block, in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine on July 10, 2022.
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Those on the political left are conflicted: Supporting military aid to Ukraine involves siding with U.S. imperialism, but opposing military aid means condoning Russian atrocities in Ukraine.
A man stands in a crater after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on July 1, 2022.
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The EU must play the biggest role in ending the war in Ukraine. Peace negotiators should take a systematic approach that focuses first on where there is likely to be agreement.
In memoriam: an artwork in tribute to the victims of the massacres in Bucha in April.
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A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
G7 leaders convene at Schloss Elmau, Germany.
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The G7 summit offered the most recent insights for Africa into how western nations are considering their stakes in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the impact that could have on developing nations.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, widely known as Jokowi.
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Despite vague results of what the shuttle diplomacy will contribute to the world, at least the visits resemble Indonesia’s, if not Jokowi’s, own interest.
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Putin’s imperial ambitions have led him to refer to himself as a latter-day Peter the Great.
Russia has pioneered the concept of digital sovereignty and used it to severely restrict Russians’ access to the internet.
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For more than a decade, the Russian government has been putting teeth into its doctrine of ‘digital sovereignty’ by steadily increasing censorship of content and control over internet access.
Brittney Griner appears at a hearing at the Khimki Court outside Moscow on June 27, 2022.
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WNBA star Brittney Griner is scheduled to appear in Russian Court on July 1, 2022, after US officials determined she had been wrongfully detained.
Vladimir Putin speaks at a rally in Moscow in March 2022, according to this Kremlin image, with a banner that says “For the world without Nazism! For Russia!”
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For hundreds of years, Russia has elevated its political leaders as figureheads. That’s part of what makes its propaganda so convincing.
Kaliningrad is separated from the ‘motherland’ by Lithuania.
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A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
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There remains a significant danger the conflict falls off the international radar, or that Western leaders waver as the conflict drags on.
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As the conflict deepens, the chances of Russia’s ally being pressured into entering the conflict seem to be growing.
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Russia’s long-term plan for Ukraine is to draw it away from the west.