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UNBELIEVABLE: Darya - The Untold Story

The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban to read Orwell

Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pore over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest Hemingway

The Guardian - UK

Who, If Not Us? The Fight for Democracy in Belarus review – activists display their defiance

Collateral comedy spins out from underneath the repression and violence charted in this sobering documentary that follows three indefatigable women

The Guardian - UK

Drones, informers and apps: Iran intensifies surveillance on women to enforce hijab law

Iranian police are using digital tools to identify and punish women who defy the Islamic state’s harsh dress code

The Guardian - UK

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Russian support for Putin’s war in Ukraine is hardening

As Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine struggles into its second year, his transformation of Russian society is in overdrive.

Tribune News Service

‘With God’s help, we will go back’: Ukrainians flee annexed regions as Putin declares them Russian

Vladimir Putin declared on Friday that four regions of Ukraine were now part of the Russian Federation

The Independent UK

Alexander Dugin: who is Putin ally and apparent car bombing target?

Ideologue’s views helped shape ideas behind Ukraine invasion, but his influence on Putin is disputed

The Guardian - UK

‘I can’t tell him his mother has died’: the cost of Russia’s assault on Kharkiv

Shelling is so intense that doctors and nurses at one hospital have lived there for 29 days, as casualties including many young children are brought in under fire

The Guardian - UK

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Coinciding with Biden visit to Poland, Russia signals scaled-back goals in Ukraine

LVIV, Ukraine — As President Joe Biden visited Poland on Friday in a show of support for NATO’s eastern flank, Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s military chiefs signaled a streamlining of war aims in Ukraine — a potentially face-saving path for Moscow to exit what has become a lengthy, grinding and…

Los Angeles Times

Coinciding with Biden visit to Poland, Russia signals scaled-back goals in Ukraine

LVIV, Ukraine — As President Joe Biden visited Poland on Friday in a show of support for NATO’s eastern flank, Russian military chiefs signaled a streamlining of war aims in Ukraine — a potentially face-saving path for Vladimir Putin to exit what has become a lengthy, grinding and increasingly deadlocked…

Los Angeles Times

Biden arrives in Poland as death toll rises for both Ukraine and Russia

LVIV, Ukraine — As President Joe Biden landed in Poland in a show of support for NATO’s eastern forces, the Ukrainian government said Friday that it had conducted its first prisoner exchange with Moscow during their month-long war, even as it accused enemy forces of forcibly sending people to Russia…

Los Angeles Times

Death toll mounts in Ukraine as Biden heads to Poland

KHARKIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian government said Friday that it had conducted its first prisoner exchange with Moscow during their month-long war, even as it accused enemy forces of forcibly sending people to Russia and reported at least 300 dead in a recent airstrike on a theater in Mariupol.

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