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HISTORICAL FACTS: 7 | History Defined

Putin’s bodyguards ‘collect his excrement on trips abroad and take it back to Russia with them’

Practice allegedly carried out in bid to stop foreign powers gathering information about Russian leader’s health

The Independent UK

Russian artists grapple with the same dilemma as their Soviet forebears – to stay or to go?

With few exceptions, most Russian artists who oppose the war have been relegated to releasing songs, posting artwork or publishing articles on social media.

The Conversation

ANU project saves key Ukraine history

ANU becomes repository of essential information on Stalin's Ukrainian famine

The Canberra Times

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Putin’s real goal in Ukraine isn’t land

Putin isn’t just trying to take over Ukrainian land — he is trying to obliterate Ukrainian identity

Salon

Chinese TikTok Users Are in Love With ‘Daddy Putin’

Foreign Policy

Vladimir Putin ‘more dangerous than Hitler or Stalin’, says Poland’s prime minister

Morawiecki accuses west of blissfully forgetting threat of Russia resurrecting demons of history

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin 'more dangerous than Stalin and Hitler' with 'deadlier weapons'

Polish leader Mateusz Morawiecki pointed out the Russian president has "deadlier weapons at his disposal" than the 20th century despots, amid fears Putin is preparing for a long war

Daily Mirror

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The Coup in the Kremlin

How Putin and the Security Services Captured the Russian State

Foreign Affairs

Memories of last time Red Army invaded still haunt families living on the Russian border

Finland’s historically fraught relationship with Russia is now at its most fractious, after the invasion of Ukraine convinced the Nordic nation to ditch its neutral status and apply for NATO membership

Daily Mirror

Russia: Victory Day 2022 and why commemoration of the end of WWII matters today

Even in the darkest days of the pandemic in 2020 Russia didn’t cancel Victory Day, its anniversary of the end of the second world war – it was just postponed. This year, the Kremlin promises a parade on May 9 with 11,000 servicemen and women plus 62 airplanes and 15…

The Conversation

The Power Struggle After Putin

Russia’s Inevitable Succession Crisis

Foreign Affairs

Sanctions won't stop Putin — this might

All along, Putin has counted on the fact that Europe needs Russian gas. But that's also his Achilles heel

Salon

How Russia's fixation on the Second World War helps explain its Ukraine invasion

Russian media references to the “de-Nazification” of Ukraine to justify its invasion have placed Russia'a fascination with the Second World War in the public eye.

The Conversation

Ukraine and the psychology of genocide

To understand the massacre in Bucha, we need to stop off at Babi Yar, Katyn and Oradour-sur-Glane. It's a long trip

Salon

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Why does Russia keep poisoning people? The wild history of Moscow's chemical assassination plots

Billionaire Roman Abramovich is just the latest in a long line of people who suspect they may be the target of a Kremlin poison plot. Russia is well-practised in the art of chemical assassinations, but carrying out a murder using poison is inherently risky.

ABC News

Korean Ukrainians refuse to become 'Russian prisoners' again

Fighting against Russia's invasion means more than independence for many Korean Ukrainians, whose ancestors were deported by Joseph Stalin to Central Asia.

Miami Herald

Putin calls them ‘gnats.’ But war back home strengthens ties of a South Florida community

MIAMI — Ukrainian Olena Doronina and Russian Alexandra Ignatkina huddled over their cellphones to watch videos sent by Doronina’s son and siblings, who are trapped in Kherson, a Black Sea port city in the south of Ukraine occupied by Russian soldiers.

France 24

Act or dissolve, Zelensky challenges UN, but Ukraine atrocities already pile pressure on Russia

In his first address to the UN Security Council since the Russian invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week called on the 15-member body to reform itself or face dissolution. That may be easier said than done. But the response to reports of Russian atrocities in Bucha, near Kyiv, highlights…

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Salon

Elon Musk blows up Twitter — twice

The news comes a day after filings revealed the Tesla and SpaceX CEO is now Twitter's largest shareholder

The Independent UK

Poland hits out at Macron after massacre in Bucha: ‘Nobody negotiated with Hitler’

‘Nobody negotiated with Hitler. You would negotiate with Hitler, with Stalin, with Pol Pot afterwards?’

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin sets up hotline to urge 'good' Russians to report 'traitors'

The Kremlin and Vladimir Putin have set up a hotline and website that enables everyday ordinary Russians to rat out their neighbours, family and friends and other citizens over anti-war sentiment

The Guardian - UK

‘What would this Ukrainian like for her 100th birthday? That Putin will die’

Elderly citizens in Kyiv who have lived through Hitler’s Holocaust and Stalin’s Holodomor fear that history is repeating itself with Russia’s invasion

Al Jazeera

As bombs fall, Muslims in Ukraine face difficult Ramadan

Preparations for fasting month both hard and emotional for Ukraine’s Muslim population following Russian invasion.

The Guardian - UK

Putin exploits the lie machine but didn’t invent it. British history is also full of untruths

Our own crisis of truth is responsible for some of the world’s biggest problems, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Writers in bombed out Kharkiv seek inspiration in historical resistance

‘It feels like history is repeating itself,’ says local poet as Russian bombs fall

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