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What really happened at Chernobyl? How the world’s worst nuclear accident happened

Decades after the catastrophe, now a byword for state secrecy, crucial elements remain a mystery, Andy Gregory writes

The Independent UK

Xi Jinping gambled on a new era with Vladimir Putin. Is Beijing about to pay?

Vladimir Putin set out to restore a cross between the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire. In fact, his botched invasion of Ukraine has revived the West, sprung the EU and Britain into action and unsettled Xi Jinping in China. The only thing that now looks “brain dead”, which is…

Evening Standard

Commentary: Russia can’t — and shouldn’t — be kicked off the United Nations Security Council

Over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the removal of the Russian Federation from its seat on the Security Council of the United Nations. According to Ukrainian diplomats, Russia was never formally recognized as a successor state to the Soviet Union, so it now should be deprived of…

Chicago Tribune

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Why did Russia invade Ukraine?

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Vladimir Putin points to history to justify his Ukraine invasion, regardless of reality

Vladimir Putin’s interest in history is well known. He has accused Poland of starting the Second World War. He maintains that the Soviet Union liberated the western world from Nazism and any discussion over that view is “historical revisionism.”

The Conversation

How Russia went from dominating chess for half a century to world tournament ban after invasion

The International Chess Federation on Sunday pulled tournaments from Russia and Belarus, a move that experts described as historic

The Independent UK

Criminal Record: Vladimir Putin's relationship with the Russian mafia

While the criminal underworld is thriving in Europe nobody really paid much attention as the “Bratva” – various organised crime groups who originated in the former Soviet Union – rose to become the largest in the world.

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Russia’s Syria intervention provided hints for Ukraine war

Russian President Vladimir Putin's first military campaign outside former Soviet Union areas was in Syria, where in 2015 he threw his country's firepower behind President Bashar Assad

The Independent UK

What really happened at Chernobyl? How the world’s worst nuclear accident happened

Decades after the catastrophe, now a byword for state secrecy, crucial elements remain a mystery, Andy Gregory writes

The Independent UK

Chelsea’s Kante Calls for Focus after Surprise of Abramovich Sale

Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante said the Premier League team's players were caught off guard by Roman Abramovich's decision to sell the club following Russia's invasion of Ukraine but urged them to stay focused on their quest to finish in the top four. Russian Abramovich said on Wednesday he would sell…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine as a 'borderland': a brief history of Ukraine's place between Europe and Russia

One interpretation of the name “Ukraine” is borderland. This needs to be taken seriously.

The Conversation

Deep-rooted Russian fear of the West has fuelled Putin's invasion of Ukraine

If Russia were a human being, then it would have an almost pathological fear of threats to its person. As is often the case with fear, it has a kernel of grounding in reality, but has grown completely out of proportion under President Vladimir Putin.

The Conversation

'A blitzkrieg': Ukraine's volunteer fighters brace for more

A 68-year-old retiree recalls serving alongside Russian soldiers when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and calling them brothers

The Independent UK

‘It will be bloody’: The ex-Russian soldier who made a life in the UK now standing up to Putin’s forces

Arkadi fought for the Soviet Union during the Afghan war and later moved to London to start a new life. Now, as a proud resident of Kyiv, he is doing what he can to support his adopted country of Ukraine

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Holy wars: How a cathedral of guns and glory symbolizes Putin’s Russia

A curious new church was dedicated on the outskirts of Moscow in June 2020: The Main Church of the Russian Armed Forces. The massive, khaki-colored cathedral in a military theme park celebrates Russian might. It was originally planned to open on the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over…

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Read the words as they appear — Russia is not a member of the United Nations Security Council

With a Russian invasion looming, the Ukrainian ambassador sat across from his Russian counterpart, his first chance to unload the frustrations and anxieties of a nation directly to its aggressor. He opened not with a complaint about shelling or a defense of sovereignty but with a request that the United…

Daily Mirror

Who are the Russian oligarchs in the UK and what are their ties to Putin?

Russian oligarchs have put down deep roots in the UK since acquiring vast fortunes after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Some are reported to own luxury penthouses only steps away from Parliament

The Conversation

Putin is on a quest for historical significance by invading Ukraine and gambling on his own and Russia's glory

When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, most Russian officials in St. Petersburg’s mayor’s office were quick to replace the portraits of the Communist revolutionary heroes Vladimir Lenin and Sergei Kirov with the portrait of Boris Yeltsin, the new Russian president.

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Russia scholar: Putin's neo-Eurasianism keys invasion

What is behind Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Prominent Russian literature scholar Ikuo Kameyama, the president of Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, who once interviewed former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 2014, believes Russian President Vladimir Putin might still be smarting from events of that year. The following is excerpted from…

Salon

GOP calls Putin "Soviet dictator"

Former football coach Tommy Tuberville isn't the only Republican who needs a refresher on Russian history

Reuters

No military bases in ex-Soviet countries, Russia tells West

The West must not build military facilities in any countries of the former Soviet Union, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The world stands with Ukraine

Not since 9/11 has an unprovoked hostility been so clearly defined as good versus evil. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has, if nothing else, sidestepped the usual vagaries of who started what or who is the victim and who is the aggressor. On the one side is Ukraine, a sovereign…

The Independent UK

Russia’s Syria intervention provided hints for Ukraine war

Russian President Vladimir Putin's first military campaign outside former Soviet Union areas was in Syria, where in 2015 he threw his country's firepower behind President Bashar Assad

Tribune News Service

The list of foreign companies pulling out of Russia keeps growing

The invasion of Ukraine is causing a mass exodus of companies from Russia, reversing three decades of investment by Western and other foreign businesses there following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.The list of those cutting ties or reviewing their operations is growing by the hour as foreign…

Radio France Internationale

50 years on - the nuclear 'triangle' resurrected with Russia on high alert

Fifty years ago, the US and China signed the "Shanghai Communiqué" leading to the normalisation of ties between Washington and Beijing. Its main purpose was to counter the Soviet Union which had threatened to "take out" China's nuclear arsenal. RFI looks at how this historical 'triangle' is being reformed against…

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