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Is international law powerless against Russian aggression in Ukraine? No, but it's complicated

The world was treated to a grotesque spectacle this week. Russia, the current president of the UN Security Council, launched an invasion of Ukraine while the Security Council was holding an urgent meeting to try to resolve the crisis.

The Conversation

A historian corrects misunderstandings about Ukrainian and Russian history

The first casualty of war, says historian Ronald Suny, is not just the truth. Often, he says, “it is what is left out.”

The Conversation

Ukraine invasion: should Russia lose its seat on the UN Security Council?

It’s ironic that Russia holds the presidency of the Security Council, the UN’s body delegated to make peace, just as Russia is perceived by many to be the greatest threat to that peace. Ukraine’s ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, has even suggested that Russia should be removed from the Security Council. But…

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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

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine attacks its distinct history and reveals his imperial instincts

Vladimir Putin has long insisted Ukraine is part of the country he rules. This was painted more starkly than ever as he announced that Russian troops were undertaking a “special military operation” in its western neighbour. But to the rest of the world, what Russia is undertaking is simply an…

The Conversation

This 1946 telegram predicts much of Russia’s 21st-century foreign policy

Somehow, an American diplomat foresaw thoroughly contemporary innovations like troll farms

Financial Times

55-years-ago, the world wrote the "prime directives" for outer space

You can't own the Moon. Almost six decades ago, the world sat down and wrote the rule book for solving potential conflicts in outer space.

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Bacon in Moscow by James Birch review – darkly funny account of art behind the iron curtain

Spats, KGB threats, dodgy Soviet plumbing… a London gallerist’s vivid memoir of organising a Francis Bacon show in the USSR really brings the artist to life

The Guardian - UK

How real is Russia’s threat to deploy missiles to Latin America?

Dismissed by some as propaganda ‘nonsense’, Moscow’s warning evokes memories of the Cuban missile crisis.

Al Jazeera

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