Russias Novovoronezh plant in central Russia which is a sister project to Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant.
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Russia is a big player in the global nuclear power construction business. Why this era could soon be over.
Two men speak in the backyard of a house damaged by a Russian airstrike, according to locals, in Gorenka, Ukraine, March 2, 2022.
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Over centuries, theory on just war has developed six main criteria for assessing conflicts.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, points to the training facility hit by Russian artillery at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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The world held its collective breath as Russian troops battled Ukrainian forces at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The battle is over and no radiation escaped, but the danger is far from over.
Putin has kept most oligarchs at a distance – literally and figuratively.
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An expert on oligarchs explains how they came to be Russia’s richest and most powerful people and scrutinizes their relationship with Putin.
Russian police have detained thousands of Russians who have taken to the streets to protest the invasion of Ukraine.
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Sanctions follow a ‘punishment logic,’ which often hurts the wrong people – and will likely weaken an already beleaguered Russian opposition.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been lauded for his resistance to the Russian invasion.
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A political philosopher explains the moral symbolism ascribed to Zelenskyy’s ‘heroism’ and why he offers hope to those who hold democracy dear.
Unsettling times.
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Here are the threats being faced by banks, companies and investment funds.
These charity leaders teamed up to fundraise on March 3, 2022, for refugees fleeing Ukraine.
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Give with your head, not just your heart, advises a scholar who has studied donations made after disasters and other crises.
Isolated: Vladimir Putin in a video conference with his Security Council.
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The Russian president has already shown he will come down hard on domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine.
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The fire at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine understandably raised the spectre of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. But thankfully this time another nuclear catastrophe was avoided.
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Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Professor Paddy Nixon, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Russian Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin during a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on Feb. 20, 2021.
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The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reaches into outer space, as Russia threatens to stop co-operating on supplying and participating in space missions.
In this 1919 caricature, Ukrainians are surrounded by a Bolshevik (to the north, man with hat and red star), a Russian White Army soldier (to the east, with Russian eagle flag and a short whip), and to the west a Polish soldier, a Hungarian (in pink uniform) and two Romanian soldiers.
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Borderlands are all about diversity and competing understandings of community and nation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sit far apart during talks in the Kremlin in Moscow a week before Russia invaded Ukraine.
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Just because deep-rooted Russian fears might not seem reasonable doesn’t mean they aren’t real in Vladimir Putin’s mind.
War is hell: protesters gather in Warsaw.
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Truth may be the first casualty of war, but knowledge and expertise is all the more important.
A gym is in ruins following a shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 2, 2022. Russian forces have escalated their attacks on crowded cities in what Ukraine’s leader called a blatant campaign of terror.
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Putin never formally declared war on Ukraine, calling the invasion a “special military operation.” Official declarations of war are increasingly a thing of the past. Here’s why that’s detrimental.
Sacred memory: the Holocaust shrine at Babyn Yar in Kyiv where 34,000 Jews were murdered in the SS in 1941.
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The site of the Babyn Yar memorial represents one of the worst atrocities of the second world war.
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You ask a question, call for a particular action and express solidarity with the person who represents you in parliament.
Scaling up?
Lukasz Stefanski
What bitcoin giveth, it also takes away.
Much of the region around Chernobyl has been untouched by people since the nuclear disaster in 1986.
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With Russian troops rolling through the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine, a biologist who studies wildlife in the area describes the risks of disturbing this radioactive landscape.