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The history of a humble chapel created by Ukrainian prisoners reminds us of our duty to those refugees now fleeing Putin’s war.
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has recently praised the BBC’s work.
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A cold war - and the importance of trusted information - is pushing the UK government to revise its attitude to the BBC.
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Academic research about the process of war can shed light on the current situation.
Russian president Vladimir Putin and African leaders at the 2019 Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum in Sochi in 2019.
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Russia is attempting to export its governance model of an authoritarian, kleptocratic and transactional regime onto Africa.
A train with refugees fleeing Ukraine crosses the border in Medyka, Poland, on March 7, 2022.
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Canada’s temporary protection measures to Ukrainians fleeing the war ensure they’re brought to safety faster. But will this kind of response become the preferred method for all future refugees?
Displaced Ukrainians try to leave the country at the Lviv train station.
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Instead of providing safe and legal routes to protection to people in grave danger, Home Secretary Priti Patel has announced a minor loosening of visa rules.
Most Ukrainian refugees, like those pictured here on March 7, 2022, have crossed into Poland.
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More than 2 million Ukrainians have fled the country since the Russian invasion. The EU has welcomed the refugees, but research shows that host communities may tire of the newcomers.
A woman holds a placard with the words ‘language is a weapon’ written in Ukrainian during a 2020 protest of a bill that sought to widen the use of Russian in Ukrainian public education.
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To Russian nationalists, if the Ukrainian language is classified as a derivative of the Russian language, the invasion looks less like an act of aggression and more like reintegration.
Ukrainian passports say “Ukraine” with no “the.” On the Polish border, March 5, 2022.
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That three-letter word erases the country’s political sovereignty.
The flag of Ukraine has been tied around a statue of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ outside a church in Pennsylvania amid the Russian invasion.
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To many Ukrainians, Jesus’ mother has a special relationship with their country.
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The BBC has resumed broadcasting via shortwave radio to ensure civilians can access the news.
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What the world stands to lose due to Putin’s unprovoked war.
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The missiles, which can be fired by a single person, seem to be effective against Russia’s fleet of invading main battle tanks.
Some motorists are willing to pay more for the price of gas. Others are considering trading in gas-guzzling cars for more efficient vehicles. The price of gas at a Petro Canada gasoline station in Ajax, Ont., on March 7, 2022.
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Oil supply is very tight, and the current geopolitical crisis involving Russia, one of the world’s largest oil producers, has pushed prices over the edge.
Refugees who are foreign nationals, especially those from the Middle East, Asia and Africa are being discriminated against at the borders.
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We must demand safety for all refugees, not just Ukrainian nationals.
Demonstrators march at a rally in support of Ukraine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. on Feb. 28.
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Canada and its universities have roles to play in providing safe spaces to scholars in regions where research is under threat due to conflict and repression.
This painting by Russian artist Alexei Danilovich Kivshenko depicts the ceremonial pledge of allegiance by Ukrainian Cossacks to the Tsar of Russia in 1654.
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Throughout history, Russian rulers have seen it as their mission to ‘gather the lands of the Rus’.
The prospect of a peace deal remains remote.
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This is a situation with many moving parts, any one of which can derail diplomacy.
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, speaks during a special session of the General Assembly on March 02, 2022.
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The resolution is not legally binding, but is an expression of the views of the UN membership.
Ukraine could use war bonds to tap into the broad international outrage over Russia’s invasion.
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A historian explains how the US has used war bonds to both fund its wars and inspire patriotism among Americans.