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Photo: Firefighters work to extinguish fire following recent shelling at an oil storage in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in the town of Shakhtarsk, October 27, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

Russia: Taming the Outlaw State

November 29, 2022

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Photo: Pallets of ammunition are loaded onto an 86th Airlift Wing C-130J Super Hercules on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Aug. 7, 2022. Air Mobility Command's global air mobility support system is critical to the Department of Defense’s ability to rapidly fulfill Ukraine’s priority security assistance requests. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Emma Quirk via dvids

Ukraine: Time for a New Berlin Airlift

November 29, 2022

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Photo: Street with anti-tank obstacle defense during a blackout after a Russian missile attack on Ukrainian power infrastructure in Kyiv, Ukraine, November, 2022. Credit: Photo by Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto

Light Flares in Ukraine’s Darkness

November 28, 2022

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Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping before an extended-format meeting of heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit (SCO) member states in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Credit: Sputnik/Sergey Bobylev/Pool via REUTERS

The Menace of a Deepening China-Russia Axis

November 28, 2022

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Photo: Opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza laying flowers during the memorial. More than 10 thousand people took part in the memory of Boris Nemtsov on the sixth anniversary of the murder of the politician. Credit: Mihail Siergiejevicz / SOPA Imag/Sipa USA

High Treason, Stalin-Style

November 28, 2022

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Photo: Ukrainian servicemen ride a 2S7 Pion self-propelled gun, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near a frontline in Kherson region, Ukraine November 9, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi

China’s Victory in Ukraine

November 27, 2022

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Photo: ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 - Workers of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society and a psychologist of the State Emergency Service comfort a woman at the scene of a deadly Russian missile strike on a humanitarian convoy in Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. Credit: Dmytro Smolienko via Reuters Connect

Making Russia Pay

November 24, 2022

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Photo: Women board the evacuation train for displaced people from Donetsk and Luhansk areas destroyed by the constant Russian shelling during the combats between the Ukrainian and Russian armies to control the Donbas, Ukraine. Credit: Celestino Arce/NurPhoto

Ukraine’s Refugees Mull Return After Russian Retreats

November 24, 2022

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Photo: European Council President Charles Michel meets with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, October 26,2022. Credit: European Council.

Expanding the West’s Footprint in Tokayev’s ‘New Kazakhstan’

November 24, 2022

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Photo: People take part in the annual Russian March demonstration, organised by nationalists and activists of far-right political groups, on the National Unity Day in Moscow, Russia November 4, 2019. Credit: REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva.

Can the Kremlin Capture Russia’s Restless Ultra-Nationalists?

November 21, 2022

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Photo: Police officers restrain participants of an anti-government demonstration in Yerevan, Armenia May 3, 2022. Credit: Vahram Baghdasaryan/Photolure via REUTERS.

Russia’s Dying Eurasian Dream

November 21, 2022

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Photo: Ukrainian servicemen fire a 130 mm towed field gun M-46 on a front line, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near Soledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, in this handout image released November 10, 2022. Credit: Iryna Rybakova/Press Service of the 93rd Independent Kholodnyi Yar Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout

Blowing Hot and Cold

November 20, 2022

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Photo: Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov at the sixth meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 12, 2022. This is the the sixth such meeting of defense leaders from around the world since Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine. Credit: DoD photo by Chad J. McNeeley

It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia

November 18, 2022

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Photo: Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping. Credit: Federal Government/Imo https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/media-center/federal-chancellor-scholz-china-2140022

Zombie Ostpolitik

November 17, 2022

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Photo: President Joe Biden and President of the European Commission Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen at the G20 Summit in Indonesia. Credit: @POTUS via Twitter https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1593038717299888128.

West Must Craft a Russian Strategy

November 17, 2022

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Photo: Russian T-80BV tank on fire. Credit: OTU "Pivnich", Military unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine via Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=463092205554584

Doomed to Failure — Russia’s Efforts to Restore its Military Muscle

November 15, 2022

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Photo: Graphic picturing The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin by Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov. Credit: Sarah Krajewski/CEPA.

The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin

November 15, 2022

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Photo: Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi addressing the 22nd SCO Summit, September 16, 2022. Credit: President of the Islamic Republic of Iran website https://president.ir/en/139499.

Few-Friends Russia Embraces Iran

November 14, 2022

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Photo: Handout photo shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky taking part in the flag laying ceremony during his visit to the newly liberated city of Kherson, following the retreat of Russian forces from the strategic hub. Kherson, Ukraine, November 14, 2022. Credit: Photo by Ukrainian Presidency via ABACAPRESS.COM

Putin Runs out of Options

November 14, 2022

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Photo: Children celebrate after Russia's retreat from Kherson, in central Kherson, Ukraine November 13, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko.

November 13, 2022

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Photo: Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jochen Emrich, of the 189th Airlift Wing, Communications Flight, Arkansas Air National Guard, assesses real-world cyber threats, Dec. 5, 2021, at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas. Credit: Tech. Sgt. Jonathan Porter/Air National Guard

Russia’s Aggression Justifies Western Cyber Intervention

November 9, 2022

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Photo: 1959/60 Class photo. Martina Martinaitienė, located middle row, far left. Courtesy: Saulė Kubiliūtė

My Grandma — an Ordinary Hero of Lithuania’s Resistance

November 9, 2022

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Photo: Dark windows in residential blocks during a power cut amid the Russian destruction of Ukrainian power infrastructure in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 27, 2022. Credit: Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto

Putin Weaponizes Winter

November 9, 2022

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Photo: A man wearing a camouflage uniform walks out of PMC Wagner Centre, which is a project implemented by the businessman and founder of the Wagner private military group Evgeny Prigozhin, during the official opening of the office block in Saint Petersburg, Russia, November 4, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Igor Russak

Putin’s Chef Turns Handyman

November 9, 2022

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Photo: Joint Terminal Attack Controllers from the Latvian National Armed Forces conduct close air support training with A-10s from the 107th Fighter Squadron. Credit: Staff Sgt. Jacob Cessna, US Air National Guard

A Security Partnership Act for the Baltics?

November 9, 2022

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Photo: A volunteer places a cross with a number to a grave of one of unidentified people killed by Russian troops, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, during a mass burial ceremony in the town of Bucha, in Kyiv region, Ukraine September 2, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Vladyslav Musiienko

Russia Fears Return of a Criminal Army

November 7, 2022

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Photo: An Ukrainian boy attends a demonstration of solidarity with Ukraine in Krakow, Poland on October 1st, 2022. Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto

November 6, 2022

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Photo: Slovakia's President Zuzana Caputova reacts next to the owner of a gay bar at the site of a shooting in Bratislava, Slovakia October 13, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa

Homophobic Murders Bring Dire Warnings From Slovak President

November 2, 2022

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Photo: Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attend an IRGC ground forces military drill in the Aras area, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, October 17, 2022. Credit: IRGC/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS

Iran Battles Turkish Influence in South Caucasus

November 1, 2022

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Photo: Ukrainians people living in Krakow and their supporters protesting in Krakow's Main Square, on the 229th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On Thursday, October 10, 2022, in Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. Credit: Artur Widak/NurPhoto

Russia — The World Hates Us

November 1, 2022

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Photo: Joint appeal with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, for the formation of German-Ukrainian town twinning. Credit: Jesco Denzel via the website of the President of Germany. https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Termine/DE/Frank-Walter-Steinmeier/2022/10/221025-Reise-Ukraine.html#-gallery

Germany’s Belated Awakening

October 31, 2022

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Photo: Riot police officers detain a man during a rally in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on January 31, 2021. Credit: Photo by Anatolij Medved/NurPhoto

Kremlin Must Loosen its Grip for Russia to Survive

October 31, 2022

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Photo: Rome, 23/10/2022 - After receiving military honours, the President of the Council of Ministers, Giorgia Meloni, reviews the Guard of Honour lined up in the courtyard of Palazzo Chigi. Credit: Italian Government website. https://www.governo.it/en/media/inauguration-ceremony-giorgia-meloni-s-government-palazzo-chigi/20746

Italy’s New Government: Five things to Remember

October 31, 2022

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Photo: Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi bows as he pays his respects at the memorial to the Nord-Ost theatre centre hostage crisis victims in Moscow, January 10, 2003. Koizumi on Friday demanded that North Korea go back on its decision to pull out of a global treaty aimed at stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. Credit: REUTERS AS/JDP

The Siege That Still Scars Russia

October 31, 2022

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Photo: Vendors count Russian ruble banknotes for tax at a market in Omsk, Russia October 29, 2021. Credit: REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko

Russia’s Costly War Saps its Regions

October 28, 2022

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Photo: Russian nuclear missiles. Credit: Andy Cat @akatyanin via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/PGEKTReynKk

Foreign Outreach Belies Putin’s Nuclear Threats

October 28, 2022

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Photo: ballistic missiles being launched into the air as Russia's strategic nuclear forces took part in drills. Credit: @MoreeuwL via Twitter. https://twitter.com/ChaudharyParvez/status/1585435573183209473

Russia’s Garbled Nuclear Missile Message

October 28, 2022

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Photo: Polish Border Control. Credit: @Straz_Graniczna via Twitter https://twitter.com/Straz_Graniczna/status/1584062657534885888/photo/1

Baltics Bring Down the Shutters on Free Migration

October 27, 2022

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Western Progressives and Reactionaries for Putin

October 27, 2022

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Photo: Odessa, Ukraine, 2022/04/14. Barricades and fortifications forbid the access to a street in the city center. Residents in Odessa fear to be the target of a Russian attack since the Russian navy ship Moskva was sunk by Ukrainian missiles off Odessa s coast. Credit: Photograph by Valeria Mongelli / Hans Lucas. Odessa, Ukraine, 2022/04/14.

Sirens and Flaming Shots — Life in Wartime Odesa

October 26, 2022

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Photo: Briefing on radiation security threats by the chief of nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov. Credit: MoD Russia via Telegram. https://t.me/mod_russia_en/4684

Dirty Bomb — What’s Russia’s Game?

October 26, 2022

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Photo: Graphic picturing Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty by Mark G Pomar. Credit: Sarah Krajewski/CEPA.

Freedom Calling — Cold War Radio, Then and Now

October 25, 2022

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Let the Guns Speak — Ukraine Is Writing its Future

October 25, 2022

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Photo: A view shows destroyed Russian tanks and armoured vehicles, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the recently liberated town of Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine, October 5, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra.

Russia’s Collapse? Good News for Everyone

October 25, 2022

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Photo: ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, UKRAINE - OCTOBER 05, 2022 - A soldier of a military mortar crew stands on the border of a dry sunflower field, Zaporizhzhia Region, southeastern Ukraine. Credit: Dmytro Smoliyenko via Reuters Connect

Give Peace A Chance

October 22, 2022

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Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a meeting with Muslim clerics in Ufa October 22, 2013. Putin accused foreign rivals on Tuesday of using radical Islam to weaken the Russian state, a day after a suicide bombing blamed on a Muslim woman. Credit: REUTERS/Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Kremlin

Russia’s Dilemma on Secular Islam

October 21, 2022

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Photo: The Russian flag is seen through barbed wire as it flies on the roof of the Russian embassy in Kiev, Ukraine March 26, 2018. Credit: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo

A Western Strategy for Ukraine: Part 3

October 20, 2022

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Photo: A service member of Kyrgyz special operations forces stands guard near Golovnoi water distribution facility outside the village of Kok-Tash in Batken province, Kyrgyzstan May 5, 2021. The clashes broke out last week along the frontier between Tajikistan's Sughd province and Kyrgyzstan's southern Batken province because of a dispute over a reservoir and pump, claimed by both sides, on the Isfara River. Credit: REUTERS/Vladimir Pirogov

Russia’s Enfeeblement Sends Shudders Through Central Asia

October 19, 2022

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Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping after awarding him with the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia July 4, 2017. Credit: REUTERS/Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY.

Hobbled Russia Cedes Influence to China

October 18, 2022

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Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during annual news conference in Moscow, Russia December 20, 2018. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

Putin Says the Gloves Are Off — Believe Him

October 18, 2022

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Photo: Polish border guards near the new fence on the Polish-Belarusian border near the village of Nowdziel. Credit: Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto

Europe’s New Military Frontline

October 17, 2022

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Photo: Joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Credit: NATO via Flickr. https://flic.kr/p/2mRf96y

October 17, 2022

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Photo: Men walk along a street in Stepanakert in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, November 16, 2020. Credit: REUTERS/Stringer

South Caucasus Inch Closer to Peace

October 13, 2022

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Photo: Russian flags in a garbage dumpster after a rally. Source: UkraineBizMag/Twitter https://twitter.com/Biz_Ukraine_Mag/status/1506311026400272396

Whisper it — Russia Begins to Discuss Defeat

October 13, 2022

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Photo: Officers of Russia's FSB security service stand guard near a defendants' cage, with detained crew members of Ukrainian naval ships inside, during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia January 15, 2019. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

FSB Seizes a Greater Role in Russia’s Shadow War

October 13, 2022

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Photo: A medical worker works with blood during the World Blood Donor Day (WBDD), amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at a transfusiology department in Odesa, Ukraine 14 June 2022. World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) is marked annualy on 14 June worldwide. Credit: STR/NurPhoto

Ukraine: Blood for Freedom

October 13, 2022

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Photo: "Atomic Orthodoxy ... Novonovosibirsk ... Andrey Molodkin and Alexei Belyaev-Gintovt". Credit: Mithgol the Webmaster via traditio.wiki. https://traditio.wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:%D0%90%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B5.jpg

How Russia Learned to Love the Bomb (Too Much)

October 11, 2022

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Photo: Head of Transdniestria Vadim Krasnoselsky takes part in a flag-rising ceremony on Victory Day, marking the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Tiraspol, in Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniestria, May 9, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Vladislav Bachev

Russia’s Imperial Dream Fades in Transnistria

October 11, 2022

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Photo: People pose for photos and take selfies in front of the large poster form of postage stamp depicting the Crimean Kerch Bridge on fire in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 08, 2022. Credit: Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto

Troubled Bridge Over Stolen Waters

October 9, 2022

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Photo: Anti war protester holding a sign about to be detained, in Moscow, Russia, on February 28, 2022 during a demonstration against the war on Ukraine. Credit: Daniil Danchenko/NurPhoto.

Call-Up Agitates Russia’s Army of Apathy

October 7, 2022

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Photo: Buses with an election campaign posters depicting Latvian Defence Minister Artis Pabriks and leaders of Latvia First party are seen in Riga, Latvia September 28, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

Latvia’s Russian Speakers Make Radical Electoral Choices

October 7, 2022

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Photo: A Ukrainian soldier poses next to a destroyed Russian tank in Malaya Rohan village, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 5, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes.

Russia Suffers a Torrent of Battlefield Defeats

October 6, 2022

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Photo: Exercises of the Collective Forces of the CSTO "Interaction-2022", "Poisk-2022", "Echelon-2022", Kazakhstan, October 3-7, 2022. Credit CSTO Website. https://odkb-csto.org/photogallery/618/

The Russian Double — Defeat and Decline

October 5, 2022

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Photo: An activist holds up an artwork depicting Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko as they attend a rally in support of the Belarusian anti-government movement and detained blogger Roman Protasevich, in front of the Ministry of Foreign affairs in Kyiv, Ukraine May 28, 2021. Credit: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Lukashenka Plays Russian Roulette

October 4, 2022

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Photo: KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 18, 2022 - Soldiers carry the coffin covered with a Ukrainian flag with the body of the 93rd Independent Kholodnyi Yar Mechanized Brigade serviceman known by his nom de guerre 'Fanat' after a memorial service at St Michael's Cathedral, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Credit: Pavlo_Bagmut via Reuters Connect

Blood Money — Calculating Russia’s Debt to Ukraine

October 3, 2022

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Photo: Steam is seen from the cooling towers of German RWE Power AG during sunset time in Weisweiler; Germany on March 24, 2022 Credit: Photo by Ying Tang/NurPhoto

The Energy Winter War

October 3, 2022

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Photo: Members of the local Russian diaspora in Krakow are seen during a silent anti-war demonstration and protest against Vladimir Putin and the war with Ukraine at the Adam Mickiewicz Monument in Krakow's Main Square. On Sunday, October 02, 2022, in Krakow, Poland. Credit: Artur Widak/NurPhoto

Dealing with Defeat

October 2, 2022

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Photo: In this photo illustration, a warning message in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish languages is displayed on a smartphone screen and in the background. Hackers carried out attacks on several of Ukraine's government websites, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education and Science, the State Service for Emergency Situation, and others, reportedly by local media. This attack, on Ukrainian government web resources, is the largest in the last four years. Credit: Photo by Pavlo Gonchar / SOPA Images/Sipa USA.

Ukraine is Winning the Cyber War

September 29, 2022

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Photo: An ethnic Armenian soldier fires an artillery piece during a military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in this handout picture released October 5, 2020. Picture released October 5, 2020. Credit: Press office of Armenian Defense Ministry/PAN Photo/Handout via REUTERS

Russia-China Axis Smiles on Disorder

September 29, 2022

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Photo: Russia, Moscow, 2019/02/28. A clock with the image of Vladimir Putin in a souvenir shop. Credit: Photography by Myriam Tirler / Hans Lucas. Russie, Moscou, le 2019/02/28. Une horloge a l effigie de Vladimir Poutine dans une boutique de souvenir. Photographie de Myriam Tirler / Hans Lucas.

Russia’s Playing the Waiting Game, Applebaum Says

September 28, 2022

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Charity Begins with Drones: Funding Ukraine’s Resistance

September 28, 2022

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War in Ukraine Will Decide World’s Future: Reznikov

September 28, 2022

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping walk down the stairs as they arrive for a BRICS summit in Brasilia, Brazil November 14, 2019.

West Must Awake to Russia-China Alliance, EU Warns

September 28, 2022

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Photo: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman holds a press availability at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on November 17, 2021. Credit: U.S. Department of State via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/statephotos/51686916751/in/photolist-2mKoXB6-2mKssAf-2kT6d3X-2nhk1KX-2n8ZQn7-2m21eS1-2kT3k5Q-2nbfGHX-2nxRC3m-2mYrV3Q-2m68xon-2nxT1BF-2m22fJV-2mVCwZ6-2nxRGLX-2mJ13Qy-2mHWMZA-2m25Wsh-2njLFFr-2mNm2wq-2nxLsYA-2nxT1qd-2mVWJiG-2mYtJRr-2nadLqw-2mfd6yi-2mNfAjW-2nxT1t9-2mwZYmP-2mYvGw8-2mVVu4q-2mHWMtF-2mKzfpB-2mHZ4oy-2mwS9pt-2n2AaeK-2mHVxFW-2mrJJLp-2mHZ4pf-2mNudvb-2mNxzJL-2mJ11HT-2mJTxtk-2mNrHTr-2n2BSMt-2mHZ3Ux-2mK1EzB-2mJ12Nt-2mHWLYT-2mK1TgP

US Will Stay the Course on Ukraine: Sherman

September 28, 2022

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Photo: Reservists drafted during the partial mobilisation attend a ceremony before departure for military bases, in Sevastopol, Crimea September 27, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Alexey Pavlishak

Putin’s Dangerous Bet

September 27, 2022

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Photo: Ukrainian servicemen prepare to fire a mortar on the front line, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Donetsk region, Ukraine August 29, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Stringer

Crimea in Ukraine’s Crosshairs, Say US Generals

September 27, 2022

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Photo: Matteo Salvini of "Lega" political party, Silvio Berlusconi of “Forza Italia" party, Giorgia Meloni of “Fratelli d'Italia" party attend the political meeting organized by the right-wing political alliance (Forza Italia, Lega and Fratelli d'Italia) as part of the electoral closure for the Italian general election, on September 22, 2022 in Rome, Italy. Italians head to the polls for general elections on September 25, 2022. Credit: Riccardo Fabi/NurPhoto

What Next for Italian Foreign Policy?

September 27, 2022

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Photo: A man carries a bag on his head as travellers from Russia cross the border to Georgia at the Zemo Larsi/Verkhny Lars station, Georgia September 26, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze

Russians Dash for the Exits

September 27, 2022

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Photo: Russian conscripts, wearing military uniforms, are seen at a local railway station before the departure for the garrisons in Omsk, Russia November 21, 2019. Credit: REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko

Putin Gambles on Winter and Orbán 

September 27, 2022

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Photo: 2022.06.01 Irpien, Ukraine | A visit to the site of war damage. Credit: Krystian Maj/KPRM via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/premierrp/52113498557/in/photolist-2np6inH-2np6ivP-2npeafY-2n1m1Cn-2npeaea-2npbyHM-2n1gbhd-2n1ptj1-2npcPYC-2npcQ1S-2np6itV-2npcPWi-2npeahw-2npbLk1-2n1nGhU-2n1nGgg-2n1poGW-2n1nGgG-2n1mqW4-2n1poJu-2n1poKb

‘Intoxicated’ West Guilty of Russia Errors, Says Polish Premier

September 27, 2022

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Photo: Krišjānis Kariņš attends a meeting with the EU and NATO about Latvia's energy independence. Credit: @krisjaniskarins via Twitter https://twitter.com/krisjaniskarins/status/1562090221830799360/photo/3

Energy Costs the Price of Freedom, Latvia’s Kariņš Says

September 27, 2022

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Photo: A conscript, wearing a military uniform, looks on inside a train carriage at a local railway station during departure for the garrisons, in Omsk, Russia June 17, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko

September 27, 2022

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Photo: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, (on screen) addresses the Security Council Meeting on Maintenance of Peace and Security of Ukraine. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Expelling Russia from the UN Security Council — a How-to Guide

September 26, 2022

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Photo: Cardinal Joseph Zen and senior barrister Margaret Ng, arrive at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ courts in Hong Kong, China, May 24, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

Vatican Silent as Brazen China Targets Cardinal

September 26, 2022

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Photo: Airmen and civilians from the 436th Aerial Port Squadron prepare cargo in support of Ukraine at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. Credit: US Department of Defense via Twitter

A Western Strategy for Ukraine: Part 2

September 26, 2022

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Photo: Russian soldiers exercise with the Teikovsky missile unit. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defence

All Bluff? Russia’s Nuclear Threats

September 24, 2022

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Photo: Finland participated as an observer member in all parts of the NATO Military Committee meeting together with the commanders of the member states. Credit: Chief of the Finnish Defense Forces via Twitter @Finnchod

Finland Gets Russia: So Listen

September 23, 2022

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Photo: Moscow, Russia. 2 November 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a gala event to mark the centenary of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia known as the GRU at the Russian Army Theatre Credit: Planetpix/Alamy Live News

Putin Gambles His Future on Mobilization

September 23, 2022

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Photo: Lieutenant General Oleksandr Syrsky shakes the hand of President Zelenskyy. Credit: @armyinformcomua via Twitter

The Ukrainian General Behind Putin’s Defeats

September 23, 2022

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Photo: Meeting of the Presidents of Iran and Russia. Credit: Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran Website.

Iran and Russia Seek New Sanctions Evasion Corridor

September 22, 2022

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Photo: Russian Marine Corps conscripts stand in formation in front of Soviet Navy flags as they take the oath in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea December 9, 2017. Credit: REUTERS/Pavel Rebrov

Russia’s Military Manpower Crunch Will Worsen

September 21, 2022

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Photo: The Government of the Netherlands, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission are hosting an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 14 July 2022. Credit: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2022

Justice Demands the Arraignment of Russia’s Guilty Men

September 21, 2022

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Democracies United Versus Illiberalism

September 21, 2022

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Photo: Evgeny Prigozhin (L) assists Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a dinner with foreign scholars and journalists at the restaurant Cheval Blanc on the premises of an equestrian complex outside Moscow November 11, 2011. Picture taken November 11. Credit: REUTERS/Misha Japaridze/Pool/File Photo

Putin’s Chef Seeks the Ingredients of Death

September 20, 2022

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Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping before an extended-format meeting of heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit (SCO) member states in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Credit: Sputnik/Sergey Bobylev/Pool via REUTERS

September 20, 2022

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Photo: Meeting of the leaders of the CSTO member states, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the creation of the CSTO. Credit: CSTO Website. https://en.odkb-csto.org/photogallery/605/

Russian Power Wanes in the Borderlands

September 19, 2022

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Photo: Russian conscripts attend a ceremony before their departure for garrisons, in Omsk, Russia June 17, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko

Putin’s Options Dwindle Despite ‘Coffin Money’

September 16, 2022

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The Bewilderment of Kremlin Propagandists

September 16, 2022

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Photo: The IAEA Support and Assistance Mission to Zaporizhzhya (ISAMZ) arrives at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine, comprising IAEA nuclear safety, security, and safeguards staff. 1 September 2022. Credit: Fredrik Dahl / IAEA

Time to Confront Russia’s Nuclear Recklessness in Ukraine

September 15, 2022

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Photo: Servicemen of the Ukrainian National Guard take positions in central Kyiv, Ukraine February 25, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Russia’s Military — Losing the Will to Fight

September 15, 2022

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Ukraine’s Titanium Can Armor the West

September 14, 2022

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Photo: People protest during a European far-right leaders meeting at Wenceslas Square in Prague, Czech Republic April 25, 2019. The signs read: "Stop Zeman. Stop totality." Credit: REUTERS/David W Cerny

Czech Government Wobbled by Mass Protests

September 14, 2022

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New Fighting Flares in the South Caucasus

September 13, 2022

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Image: RYAZAN, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 17, 2021: A girl and cadets of the Margelov Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School vote in the 2021 Russian parliamentary election at polling station No 1019. Russia holds legislative elections on 17-19 September 2021; voters will go to the polls to elect members of the Russian State Duma; voters will also elect heads of nine Russian regions and 39 constituent regions of Russia will hold regional parliamentary elections. Credit: Alexander Ryumin/TASS.

Kremlin Lifts Electoral Burden From Voters

September 13, 2022

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Photo: Service members of pro-Russian troops fire from a tank during fighting in Ukraine-Russia conflict near the Azovstal steel plant in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine May 5, 2022. Picture taken May 5, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

The War of Putin’s Defeat

September 13, 2022

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Photo: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan addresses parliament following an escalation in hostilities over the Nagorno-Karabakh region along the border of Armenia with Azerbaijan, in Yerevan, Armenia, September 13, 2022. Credit: Tigran Mehrabyan/PAN Photo via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT.

New Fighting Flares in the South Caucasus

September 13, 2022

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Photo: Sweden's Prime Minister and Party leader of the Social Democrats Magdalena Andersson vote for the general elections at a polling station in Nacka outside Stockholm, Sweden, September 11, 2022. Credit: Ali Lorestani/TT News Agency/via REUTERS

Sweden Pays for a Negative Election

September 13, 2022

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An Education: Islamic Universities in Russia

September 12, 2022

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Photo: Britain's Queen Elizabeth views the interior of the refurbished East Wing of Somerset House at King's College in London, Britain, February 29, 2012. Credit: Eddie Mulholland/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

The Elizabethan Era

September 9, 2022

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Photo: A flag of Abkhazia is on display inside a car in the town of Tkvarcheli, some 50 km (31 miles) southeast of Sukhumi, the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia December 27, 2013. The territory of Abkhazia is located several miles southwest of the border with Russia and the Olympic Park in the Adler district of the Black Sea resort city of Sochi which will host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in February. Abkhaz separatists fought Georgian government forces in 1992-1993, after which the breakaway region declared independence. Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru, Vanuatu and Tuvalu recognized Abkhazia as an independent state while all other countries regard it as a Georgian province, according to local media. Picture taken December 27, 2013. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov.

Russia’s Caucasian Vassals Learn a Hard Lesson

September 9, 2022

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Photo: Duga zone, Chernobyl, Ukraine. Credit: Yves Alarie via Unsplash.

For Russia, Nuclear Plants Are Nuclear Bombs

September 9, 2022

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Photo: Taipei Energy Hill solar park from above. Credit: Anders J/Unsplash

The West Must Break China’s Solar Chokehold

September 8, 2022

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RYAZAN, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 17, 2020: A live TV broadcast of the 16th annual end-of-year news conference by Russia's President Vladimir Putin at a home appliances store. Credit: Alexander Ryumin/TASS

Muzzling the Watchdogs: Russia’s Media Crackdown

September 7, 2022

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Photo: Ukrainian soldier flying a flag in celebration of Ukrainian Independence Day. Credit: Arsen Petrov via Twitter @ArsenPetrovAlex.

Ukraine Is Winning

September 6, 2022

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Photo: Police stand blocking people taking part in a right-wing protest against increasing energy prices and rising living expenses in Leipzig, Germany, September 5, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Christian Mang

Germany’s War-Induced Energiewende — a Crisis With Benefits

September 6, 2022

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Photo: MOSCOW, RUSSIA – DECEMBER 28, 2021: A Memorial society supporter and law enforcement officers are seen outside the Russian Supreme Court during a hearing of arguments of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office and international public organization Memorial Society (a non-profit organization declared a foreign agent in Russia). Earlier, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office filed a motion to disband the international public organization Memorial Society (a non-profit organization declared a foreign agent in Russia) and its subdivisions for violating the 'Foreign Agent' law. Founded in 1989, Memorial is an international historical society researching the political repressions and monitoring human rights in the present-day Russia and other post-Soviet states. The Memorial Society was declared a foreign agent in 2016.Credit: Gavriil Grigorov/TASS.

Russia’s Multiplying War Problems

September 6, 2022

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Photo: Chancellor Olaf Scholz, on a visit to Kyiv, June 16, 2022. Credit: Bundesregierung/Denzel

Saying “Sorry”

September 5, 2022

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Photo: People gather to mourn the death of Belarusian anti-government protester Roman Bondarenko, who was allegedly beaten by the country's security forces in Minsk, outside the Belarusian embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine November 13, 2020. A placard displays images depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Credit: REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Might Putin Annex Belarus?

September 1, 2022

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Photo: Ukrainian servicemen fire a 2S7 Pion self-propelled gun at a position in Donetsk region, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, Ukraine August 26, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova

Ukraine Rolls the Dice in Kherson Offensive

August 31, 2022

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Photo: Swiss President Ignazio Cassis, Minister of Foreign Affairs, left, gives his national statement next to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, during the Ukraine Recovery Conference URC, Tuesday, July 5, 2022 in Lugano, Switzerland. The URC is organised to initiate the political process for the recovery of Ukraine after the attack of Russia to its territory. Credit: KEYSTONE/EDA/Alessandro della Valle

A Western Strategy for Ukraine

August 31, 2022

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Who Pays for the Failed Nord Stream 2? European Taxpayers

August 31, 2022

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Photo: NANCHANG, CHINA- In the photos taken on February 17, 2020, staff members test the equipment on the China-Europe freight train at the Xiangtang railway port in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, east China, on February 17 2020. The China-Europe freight train to Moscow from Russia and Minsk from Belarus left Nanchang on Monday (17), which means restoring its regular operation. The freight train carried 41 container wagons, fully loaded with auto parts, mechanical installations and clothing. Credit: Latin American News Agency via Reuters.

Circumventing Russia

August 31, 2022

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Photo: File photo of U.S. President Ronald Reagan (R) and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty at the White House, Washington on December 8 1987. Credit: REUTERS/Dennis Paquin/File Photo

Accidental Hero

August 31, 2022

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Photo: JAS 39 E Gripen being flown on Swedish Air Force Day. Credit @soldfcom via Instagram.

The Swedish Fighter Pilot Crisis

August 30, 2022

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Photo: A Ukrainian serviceman jumps from a military vehicle near a frontline in Mykolaiv region, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, Ukraine August 10, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Anna Kudriavtseva TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Ukraine’s Offensive — What to Look For

August 30, 2022

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Ukraine’s ‘War of the Bridges’ Begins With Southern Push

August 29, 2022

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Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin (C), Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (R) and Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov watch events marking Victory Day, in Sevastopol May 9, 2014. Putin flew in to Crimea on Friday, marking the Soviet victory in World War Two and proclaiming the success of the peninsula's seizure from a Ukraine that Russia says has been taken over by fascists. Credit: REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin

Red Hands, Red Faces

August 29, 2022

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Photo: Turkish Bayraktars TB2 were dressed in Ukrainians vyshyvanka. Credit: Rustem Umerov via Twitter @rustem_umerov.

The Drone That Won Ukrainian Hearts

August 29, 2022

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Photo: Meeting of the Presidents of Iran and Russia. Credit: Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran Website.

The Empires Strike Back: A New Age of Imperialism

August 29, 2022

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Photo: KALININGRAD, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 24, 2022: A woman walks past a digital board displaying the current rates outside a currency exchange office. As of 10am, the Moscow Exchange has reported the US dollar and Euro trading at 89.6 and 99.99 respectively against the Russian rouble, thus reaching their historic highs. Credit: Vitaly Nevar/TASS.

Putin’s Greatest Enemy? A Prosperous Russia

August 29, 2022

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Photo: Downing Street is adorned with sunflowers, the national flower of Ukraine, on the eve of Ukraine’s Independence Day. Credit: UK Prime Minister via Twitter @10DowningStreet.

UK on Course to Continue ‘Holiday From Reality’

August 26, 2022

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Photo: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko gestures as he takes part in the celebrations of Independence Day in Minsk, Belarus July 3, 2020. Credit: REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko/File Photo.

Lukashenka: Looking Out for Number One

August 24, 2022

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Photo: ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, UKRAINE - JULY 17, 2022 - A man in a military uniform stays in a burning wheat field as Russian troops shell fields to prevent local farmers from harvesting grain crops, Polohy district, Zaporizhzhia Region, southeastern Ukraine. Credit: Dmytro Smolyenko via Reuters Connect

August 24, 2022

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Photo: The 93rd Kholodny Yar brigade of Ukraine shoots a javelin at a Russian tank. Credit: 93rd separate mechanized brigade "Kholodny Yar" of the Operational Command "East" of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine via Facebook.

Russia — Relegated to the Second-Division of Military Powers

August 24, 2022

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Photo: A Palestinian engineer works at a workshop to generate electric power through solar cells in the northern Jordan Valley in the West Bank. Many Palestinian residents have resorted to using solar energy cells as a primary source of electricity in light of the high electricity prices. Credit: Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh / SOPA Images/Sipa USA

Middle East Sun Power Can Save Europe

August 23, 2022

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Photo: Cadets watch Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual news conference on TV at the cadet school outside the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don December 20, 2012. Putin said on Thursday a U.S. law that punishes Russians who abuse human rights was poisoning ties with Washington but signalled support for a retaliatory ban on Americans adopting Russian children. Credit: REUTERS/Vladimir Konstantinov

Nasty Nancy Drews — a Russian Anti-Saboteur Plan

August 23, 2022

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Photo: U.S. Army Pfc. Ryan B. Stuart of Brooklyn Park, Minn., assigned to Company D, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Task Force Storm, provides security for Afghan National Security Forces in Kharwar District Jan. 11. Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Cooper T. Cash, Task Force Patriot Public Affairs. Credit: U.S. Army.

The Afghan Collapse: An Insider’s Account

August 23, 2022

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Photo: Directory at Tbilisi Airport, Georgia. Credit: Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport Website.

Georgia: A Deluge of Russians

August 22, 2022

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Photo: Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during a meeting with his Serbian counterpart Tomislav Nikolic in Belgrade, Serbia June 18, 2016. Credit: REUTERS/Marko Djurica

China’s Europe Game

August 14, 2022

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Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin (C), Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (R) and Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov watch events marking Victory Day, in Sevastopol May 9, 2014. Putin flew in to Crimea on Friday, marking the Soviet victory in World War Two and proclaiming the success of the peninsula's seizure from a Ukraine that Russia says has been taken over by fascists. Credit: REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin

Storm Clouds Build Over Putin’s War

August 12, 2022

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Photo: Canada, Montreal, 2022-02-25. Russian passports are burnt by their owners during a protest in support of Ukraine. Credit: Paola Chapdelaine / Hans Lucas.

Visa Bans: Help Our Russian Friends, Punish Our Enemies

August 12, 2022

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Photo: A girl passes by a poster with a sign "Ukrainian resistance' in an Old Town of Kyiv, Ukraine on June 8, 2022. As the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine 3 and a half months ago, fierce fighting continues in the East of the country. The capital, Kyiv stays in relative safety, though reminders of the war such as protective sand bags, road blocks, national and anti-war symbols are present all over the city. Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto

Extreme Tourism+? Visit Ukraine

August 12, 2022

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Photo: Pro-Russian demonstrators take part in a rally in Yevpatoria, Crimea March 5, 2014. Russia rebuffed Western demands to withdraw forces in Ukraine's Crimea region to their bases on Wednesday amid a day of high-stakes diplomacy in Paris aimed at easing tensions over Ukraine and averting the risk of war. Credit: REUTERS/Maks Levin/File Photo

Russia to the World — Get Lost

August 11, 2022

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Photo: An AS532 Cougar helicopter landing on TCG Alemdar to practise medical evacuation of injured submariners during exercise Dynamic Monarch/Kurtaran 2021 in the Eastern Mediterranean. Credit: NATO

Ignore NATO’s Southern Flank at Your Peril

August 11, 2022

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Photo: A delivery worker rides a scooter past a screen showing an image of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers, on the day of 95th founding anniversary of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), in Beijing, China August 1, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

Preparing the West for the Coming China Crisis

August 10, 2022

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Photo: Chinese soldiers practice marching in formation ahead of military parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing, China September 25, 2019. Credit: Naohiko Hatta/Pool via REUTERS

The Chinese Roots of Hybrid Warfare

August 10, 2022

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Photo: A detail photo shows Cypress Semiconductor chips in the on-board computer of a Russian 9M727 missile that was collected on the battlefield by Ukraine's military and presented to Reuters by a senior Ukrainian security official, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 19, 2022. To match Special Report UKRAINE-CRISIS/RUSSIA-MISSILES-CHIPS Credit: REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Tech Sanctions Against Russia Are Working

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Photo: The Narva Tank Memorial was opened on May 9, 1970. A T-34-85 tank has been stationed at the location of a battle over crossing the Narva River by Soviet Red Army troops under General Fedyuninsky in February 1944. Credit: Tony Bowden

A Small City, its T-34, and the Empire of Putin

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Photo: Chancellor Olaf Scholz, on a visit to Kyiv, June 16, 2022. Credit: Bundesregierung/Denzel

Germany’s Zeitenwende — Be Patient, It’s Early Days

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Photo: US basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, stands inside a defendants' cage before the court's verdict in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia August 4, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool

Prisoner Swaps, Putin Style

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Photo: Seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at its headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Credit: Central Intelligence Agency.

The West Has Forgotten How to Keep Secrets

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Photo: SEVASTOPOL, RUSSIA - JUNE 12, 2021: A serviceman stands by the Black Sea as he attends a celebration of Russia Day. Credit: Alexei Pavlishak/TASS

Russia Raises Stakes on the World’s Oceans

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Photo: Taiwan Foreign Minister H.E. Joseph Wu (left) greets US House of Representatives Speaker the Hon. Nancy Pelosi and delegation members the Hon. Subramanian Raja Krishnamoorthi and the Hon. Gregory Meeks. Credit. Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Anger at Pelosi Taiwan Trip Reveals Beijing Weakness

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Photo: Civilian volunteers learn how to use their rifles during a military training in a camp of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. With the Russian army just a few kilometers of the city, many civilians are getting military skills for the future combats in the Russia´s war in Ukraine. Credit: Celestino Arce/NurPhoto

Why Shouldn’t Ukraine Strike Back?

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Photo: Bulk Carrier M/V Razoni vessel carrying 26,000 tonnes of corn cargo is seen leaving port of Odesa, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, on 1 August 2022. The first ship since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, left the port of Odesa, in deal to ease global food crisis, with tons of corn to Lebanon. Credit: STR/NurPhoto

Hesitantly, Ukraine’s Grain Begins to Ship

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Photo: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Council of Europe. Credit: Council of Europe

Orbán Mixes it Up

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Photo: President Michel meets President of Azerbaijan and PM of Armenia. Credit: European Union.

Eroding the Russian Imperium

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Photo: The first ship left the Odesa port since 24.02.2022. Credit: Oleksandr Kubrakov @OlKubrakov via Twitter

Grains of Hope and Risk in the Black Sea

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Photo: Russian service members line up before a rehearsal for a military parade marking the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 7, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Russia’s Military Grows Afraid of the Long War

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Photo: British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss meets Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland, on April 5, 2022. Credit: Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto

Political Lessons

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Is Moldova Next?

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Photo: V.Zelenskyy was presented with the Winston Churchill Leadership Award. Credit: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ukraine via Twitter.

The Righteous Glorification of Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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Photo: Handout file photo dated January 8, 2019 of U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 65th Field Artillery Brigade, and soldiers from the Kuwait Land Forces fire their High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (U.S.) and BM-30 Smerch rocket systems (Kuwait) during a joint live-fire exercise. Joe Biden has announced the US will send advanced missile systems to Ukraine. The new weapon is the Himars multiple launch rocket system, or MLRS: a mobile unit that can simultaneously launch multiple precision-guided missiles. Both Ukraine and Russia already operate MLRS, but Himars has superior range and precision. Credit: U.S. Army photo by Sgt. James Lefty Larimer via ABACAPRESS.COM

Ukraine: Peace Through Victory

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Photo: A worker is seen at a semiconductor fabrication facility owned by Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors N.V. in Chandler, Arizona in an undated handout photo provided on September 29, 2020. Credit: REUTERS/Handout courtesy of NXP Semiconductors.

Don’t Stop Now — Tech Sanctions Can Wreck Putin’s War Machine

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Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin toasts with gold medallists of the 2022 Beijing Olympics during an awarding ceremony honouring the country's Olympians at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia April 26, 2022. Credit: Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin

The Good Engineer Zima

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Photo: Picture of photographs and a passport illustrating the Dutch forensic investigations into war crimes. Credit: Royal Netherlands Marechaussee/ Netherlands Ministry of Defence.

Russia’s Crimes: Proof Is the Easy Bit

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Photo: Italy's acrobatic Air Force squadron blaze the colours of the Italian flag over the capital as they celebrate the 98th anniversary of the establishment of the Air Force, in Rome, Italy, March 30, 2021. Credit: REUTERS/Remo Casilli

Rome Alone? Italy’s Mediterranean Defense Strategy

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Photo: Pallets of ammunition bound for Ukraine are secured onto a commercial plane during a security assistance mission at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, July 21, 2022. The Department of Defense is providing Ukraine with critical capabilities to defend against Russian aggression under the Ukraine Security Assistance initiative. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Faith Schaefer via dvids.

High-Tech Alone Won’t Win European Wars

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Photo: A Ukrainian territory defense soldier walks past the ruins of a building hit by shelling on the outskirt of the separatist region of Donetsk (Donbas). Donetsk(Donbas) region is under heavy attack, as Ukraine and Russian forces contest the area, amid the Russian full invasion of Ukraine started on February 24, the war that has killed numerous civilians and soldiers. Credit: Photo by Alex Chan Tsz Yuk / SOPA Images/Sipa USA.

Be Afraid, Russia Tells Occupied Ukraine

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Photo: Two girls are seen in front a residential area affected by bombardment - June 14, 2022 in Bucha, Ukraine. As the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine more than 3 and a half months ago, fierce fighting continues in the East of the country. Some of the most devastated towns since the beginning of the conflict - Irpin and Bucha - build their way to normality. More and more civilians get back to their homes and reestablish their lives. Credit: Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto

Dreams Amid the Rubble — Rebuilding Ukraine’s Schools

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Photo: SOCHI, RUSSIA - MAY 29, 2021: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (L) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin during a boat ride off Russia's Black Sea coast. Credit: Sergei Ilyin/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASz

Will Belarus Fight for its Russian Master?

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Photo: Roundtable with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba. Credit: Council of the European Union.

Ukraine’s Long and Winding Road to EU Membership

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Russia’s Energy Blackmail — Just Say Nyet

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Photo: French soldiers scan the horizon for possible threats with the French weapon system during exercise Ramstein Legacy 22. NATO and partner nations are taking part in exercise Ramstein Legacy 22, a NATO large-scale live-fire air defence exercise. Seventeen Allied and partner countries trained in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland with aircraft, missile defence systems and electronic warfare systems from 6 to 10 June 2022. Credit: NATO.

NATO Must Embrace AI and Autonomous Weapons

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Photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to conference participants via video link at the Ukraine Accountability Conference. Credit: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs via Flickr

Russian Cyberattacks Need an International Criminal Court Response

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Photo: Steam is seen from the cooling towers of German RWE Power AG during sunset time in Weisweiler; Germany on March 24, 2022 Credit: Photo by Ying Tang/NurPhoto

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Photo: The 6th International Conference of the New Horizons begins with the motto "The Palestinian Highness of the Hittites" on May 12, 2018, with the participation of thinkers from all over the world at the Mashhad's Tomb, and runs until May 16. Credit: Mahdieh Gaforian for farsnews via Wikimedia Commons.

How to Ensure Putinism Survives Putin

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Photo: The President of the Council of Ministers, Mario Draghi, held a press conference together with Undersecretary of State Roberto Garofoli following Council of Ministers meeting no. 85. Credit: Italian Government Presidency of the Council of Ministers website.

Italy Can Step Back From the Brink

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Giving Peace (More of a) Chance

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Photo: Tour guide Jurgita Norvaisiene points at a red button in the central control room during a guided tour in decommissioned Ignalina nuclear power station in Visaginas, Lithuania July 24, 2019. Picture taken July 24, 2019. Credit: REUTERS/Ints Kalnins.

Baltics Race to Replace Russian Power Links

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Photo: U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Mhel Barde, a County Ventura, California native and a section chief with 2d Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment load a reduced range practice rocket M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System during Exercise Rolling Thunder 22-2 on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, April. 4, 2022. Credit: US Army via DVIDS.

Battlefield Lessons for the Arsenals of Democracy

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Photo: A Russian national flag flutters in front of a general view of a new bridge over the Golden Horn bay in the Russian far-eastern city of Vladivostok September 10, 2012. Credit: REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin.

Goodbye Vladivostok, Hello Hǎishēnwǎi!

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Photo: Evgeny Prigozhin (L) assists Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a dinner with foreign scholars and journalists at the restaurant Cheval Blanc on the premises of an equestrian complex outside Moscow November 11, 2011. Picture taken November 11. Credit: REUTERS/Misha Japaridze/Pool/File Photo

How to Tame a Tyrant

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Photo: A man holds a mobile phone while walking past a board with a Kazakh state flag during a protest against LPG cost rise following authorities' decision to lift price caps on liquefied petroleum gas in Almaty, Kazakhstan January 5, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev

Kazakhstan Thumbs its Nose at Putin

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Photo: Meeting of the President of Ukraine with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Credit: President of Ukraine.

Fog on the Thames

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Photo: A massive fire at a Ukraine Armed Forces ammunition depot lights up the sky on the outskirts of Lozovaya town, about 450 km (280 miles) east of the capital Kyiv, August 28, 2008. The fire first broke out in a nearby forest, where high winds prevented the fire services from extinguishing it, and swept into the ammunition dump, the Defence Ministry said. No one had been killed and military families had been evacuated from the area. Credit: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE)

Saving Ourselves by Saving Ukraine

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Poland Begins to Fortify a New Iron Curtain

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Photo: “The defence of the motherland is a sacred duty of every citizen of the USSR. Learn to master firearms!” — Soviet poster published in 1961 showing an officer passing a Kalashnikov to a younger soldier. The poster was designed by R. Dementiev and published by the Ministry of Defence. Translation and info courtesy of @antikbar.co.uk. Credit: @Propagandopolis via Instagram.

Russian Propaganda — Words No Longer Matter

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Photo: Riot police officers detain a participant in an unauthorized rally in support of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny in Komsomolskaya Square. In connection with calls for protests, pedestrian movement and public transport have been restricted in central Moscow. Access to several stations of the Moscow Metro has been temporarily closed, with trains passing without stopping. Valery Sharifulin/TASS.

Putin Deploys Comrade Stalin’s Tactics

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Photo: A student looks on with her face painted during the demonstration. Pro EU protesters gathered in Tbilisi demanding to join EU, and the resignation of Prime Minister of Georgia and the whole government. Credit: Photo by Nicolo Vincenzo Malvestuto / SOPA Images/Sipa USA.

Georgia’s Rocky Road to Europe

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Photo: Working trip of the President of Ukraine to the Kharkiv region. Credit: President of Ukraine Website.

Ukraine’s Terms for Peace

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Photo: Alarmstufe Gas - Pressestatement Robert Habeck zur Energie und Versorgungssicherheit Aktuell, 23.06.2022, Berlin, Bundeswirtschafts- und Klimaminister Robert Habeck Gruene im Portrait beim Pressestatement zum Thema Gas Alarm - Energie und Versorungssicherheit mit der Grafik ueber Gas Speicherfuellstaende im BMWK in Berlin Berlin Berlin Deutschland *** Alarm gas press statement Robert Habeck on energy and supply security Current, 23 06 2022, Berlin, Federal Minister of Economics and Climate Robert Habeck Gruene in portrait at the press statement on gas alarm energy and supply security with the graphic about gas storage reservoirs in the BMWK in Berlin Berlin Germany. Credit: IMAGO/Political-Moments via Reuters Connect.

Germany Needs Green Power, and Quickly

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Photo: Ukrainian soldiers patrol in the frontline of Mykolaiv surrounded of the destruction after the russian shelling over a village, Ukraine. Credit: Photo by Celestino Arce/NurPhoto.

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The Strange Death of a Russian Scientist

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Photo: Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu visit the newly constructed Resurrection of Christ Cathedral, the main Orthodox Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, near Moscow, Russia June 22, 2020. Credit: Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS.

Putin Sacks Top Priest over Ukraine War

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Photo: A Ukrainian woman cries outside a destroyed residential building by artillery in a residential area in Kyiv amid Russian Invasion, in Kyiv, Ukraine, 18 March 2022. Credit: Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto

The Fallacy of Russian ‘Non-Humiliation’

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Photo: (From right to left) the Leaders of Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland. Credit: Sauli Niinistö, President of Finland, via Twitter.

Defending NATO in the High North

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Photo: Two patches on the arm of an American crew member of a NATO Boeing 707 E-3A AWACS. Credit: NATO via Flickr.

NATO’s Joint ISR and the Madrid Summit

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Russia’s Studied Indifference Can’t Mask a New Defeat

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Photo: Protestors raise their fists during a rally in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia January 31, 2021. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Putin’s War Splinters the Russian Opposition

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Photo: An Ukrainian soldier stands guard as president Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the city of Mykolaiv on the Black Sea coast on Saturday June 18, 2022. His visit followed a military strike on Mykolaiv on Friday, which killed at least two people, according to the Mykolaiv regional administration. Images released by the Presidential office showed Zelenskiy, alongside the head of the regional military administration Vitaliy Kim and his team of officials visiting the ruins of the administration's building. The building was destroyed by Russian shelling in April, which killed at least 34 people. The Ukrainian President also presented medals and honors to Kim, other regional army officials and fighters. Credit: Eyepress Media via Reuters.

Drones, Sweat, and the Shadow of Death

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Photo: Romanian special forces aboard a fast launch RHIB on the Black Sea. Credit: NATO via Flickr.

NATO — Back in the Black (Sea)?

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Photo: NATO Secretary General meets the ambassadors of Finland and Sweden to NATO. Credit: NATO via Flickr.

Why Finland and Sweden’s Accession Is a Game-Changer for NATO

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