Cuban President Fidel Castro watches former U.S. President Jimmy Carter throw a baseball on May 14, 2002, in Havana, Cuba.
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Beloved in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter became the 39th US president and used his office to make human rights a priority throughout the world.
The quest for space dominance has long sparked discussions about the quality of American education.
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Policymakers and others often invoke the 1957 Russian launch of sputnik when trying to spark a discussion about education reform. A rhetoric scholar examines how often they succeed.
Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh.
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The collapse of the self-proclaimed republic ushers in a new reality in the South Caucasus. For Armenia, the first concern is how to accommodate the needs of 100,000-plus refugees.
Yaroslav Hunka, right, waits for the arrival of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the House of Commons on Sept. 22, 2023.
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Russia seeks evidence in western countries that justifies its anti-Ukraine propaganda, and Canadian Parliament has provided it with much-needed ammunition for a tired and erroneous argument.
War in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region of the South Caucasus has been going on for more than three decades.
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With the rise of China and shifting international power dynamics, New Zealand needs to find its place in a complex system of alliances and partnerships.
Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, seated with his Eastern Christian queen Doquz Khatun.
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The Catholic community that Pope Francis will visit later this month has a complex history that goes back to the 13th century, when the Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan.
Preparations in 1972 in the Red Square to mark the 55th anniversary of the Russian revolution.
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A monumental book, newly translated into English, describes in painstaking, archeological detail, how the socialist project transformed the spaces in which Soviet citizens lived.
Cillian Murphy as physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in ‘Oppenheimer.’
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Spying was a concern from the dawn of the nuclear age, but charges that J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear weapons, was a Soviet spy have been proved wrong.
Lilian Ngoyi, one of the leaders of the 1956 women’s march against apartheid, is immortalised on an abandoned building.
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Russia’s systematic manipulation of children dates back long before the war in Ukraine, to when the Soviet Union first made false promises to its large population of orphans.
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping during happier times?
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China has provided Russia with economic support during the war in Ukraine. But Beijing may be concerned over recent events in Moscow.
Houses are seen underwater and polluted by oil in a flooded neighbourhood in Kherson, Ukraine, in June 2023, following the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine.
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The Kakhovka Dam was once a symbol of harmony and co-operation among Russia and various Soviet Union republics. Its destruction vividly illustrates the death of those Soviet-era ideals.
Boxes containing classified documents are stored in a bathroom of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club.
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The indictment identifies categories of risk to the United States and its allies due to his alleged mishandling of classified documents. A scholar of intelligence studies examines four of them.
People take part in a pro-European Union rally in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, on May 21, 2023.
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There are no polemics in Serhii Plokhy’s book about the Russo-Ukranian war. The Ukranian historian lets the facts speak – showing remarkable restraint.
There have been numerous iterations of Tetris since the game was first introduced but the iconic shapes never change.
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Gareth Jones reported on Moscow’s genocide against the Ukrainian people in the 1930s. His story holds lessons and an example for those reporting on the latest conflict.
Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida