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Racist mobs attacked a 1949 concert in Peekskill, NY, helping raise anti-communist fervor after World War II and illustrating how hatred could gain legitimacy amid today’s political turmoil.
If a peace deal isto be reached it’s important to understand why Russia wanted this war.
Russia and Vietnam pledge to strengthen ties as Vladimir Putin visits Hanoi.
Gershkovich is the first foreign correspondent to be charged with spying since the end of the cold war.
Fears are growing that Russia may be trying to put a nuclear weapon into orbit.
The 2024 D-day commemorations sent a message of European unity but missed the opportunity to acknowledge Ukraine’s contribution to the defeat of Nazism.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said D-Day ‘was not a game changer’ in World War II – and Soviet media delivered that message starting the day after the invasion.
Georgia seems to be particularly prone to activism, distinguishing it from its neighbours in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Georgia is backsliding toward Russia’s sphere of influence.
Since annexing Crimea ten years ago, Putin has set out to destroy non-Russian identities on the peninsular.
News that four of the suspects in the Moscow terror attacks are Tajik will likely result in further demonization against people already facing poverty and discrimination, despite a glorious history.
A repeat of the Berlin airlifts of 1948 and 1949 would require a unity of political will that doesn’t exist in the west – at least, not yet.
During the Cuban missile crisis, World War III was likely averted by what one US official called ‘just plain dumb luck.’
Argentina is already feeling the sting of its new president’s policies – but Javier Milei is pressing ahead with ever-more radical plans to overhaul the economy.
Why is there such a Russian focus on the Second World War? Because it’s used to justify authoritarian states, the rule of dictators like Putin and Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko.
Among the missions being planned is a huge helicopter drone to explore Saturn’s moon Titan.
The whitewashing of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his crimes is crucial for understanding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imperialist ideology and goals.
Putin is planning to bring a mass tourism industry to Russia’s wild far east.
More than six years after Pavel Sulyandziga, an Indigenous activist from Russia, left the country to seek political asylum in the US, he continues to face harassment by the Russian government.
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