Putin dusts off millennia-old chronicles, finding in them proof of his reactionary utopia, his imagined historical right to possess Ukraine. Let’s talk about the most underestimated cause of this war — ideological obsession. The Russian idée fixe.
London and Washington were right about the Russian invasion, but failed to persuade European powers. They underestimated Ukrainian resistance and overestimated Russian power, just as Putin had. Four years later, the war continues.
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A status update on the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Where the two sides disagree and how to read the often overly optimistic messaging in the media.
An obscure 19th-century Russian novel about love and class and a 21st-century gay hockey romance might seem worlds apart. But both Heated Rivalry and Molotov offer the same thing: small parables of tenderness and bravery in overwhelming times.
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Former head of MI6’s Russia desk, Christopher Steele, says it appears to him that, as early as the 1970s, Epstein was “effectively involved in Russian organised crime.”
The far north has long been a region of exceptional international cooperation. It has been replaced by an emerging era of competition over resources-rare earth metals and control of shipping lanes. Trump’s designs on Greenland come at such a time.
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