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Florida attorney pleads guilty to trying to detonate explosives near Chinese embassy in Washington

A Florida attorney has pleaded guilty to using a rifle to try to detonate explosives outside the Chinese embassy last year in Washington, D

The Independent UK

The Price Is Wrong by Brett Christophers review – why capitalism can’t save the planet

A clear-eyed look at the economics of energy, and why state power, not free enterprise, is the solution to the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

In Finland, the ‘existential threat’ of Russia looms – and US rescue is far from certain

As Finns elect a new president in the shadow of Putin’s hostility and a possible Trump return, all eyes are on national security, says author and commentator John Kampfner

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What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Accusations abound after Russian military plane carrying Ukrainian PoWs crashes; Lenin 100 years dead but a thorn in Putin’s side

The Guardian - AU

Behind Andhra anganwadi anger, funding gaps, unfulfilled promises, staff woes

Beneath a fading portrait of Vladimir Lenin, on Sunday, over a thousand anganwadi workers in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada went on strike against the government’s unwillingness to increase salaries. Behind the portrait, 15 women lay down on the dais, among whom 13 had been fasting for five days continuously. Two among…

Newslaundry

Russians Gather To Mark 100 Years Since Lenin's Death

Dozens of Russian communists gathered in Red Square on Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's death, in one of the few official events commemorating the Soviet founder.

International Business Times

Remembering Lenin—the First Great Communist Mass Murderer

On the 100th anniversary of his death, it's worth recalling that almost all the worst features of communist totalitarianism began under Lenin, not Stalin and other successors.

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‘Angel or antichrist’: Russia grapples with Lenin’s legacy 100 years after death

Vladimir Putin blames leader of 1917 revolution for his woes in Ukraine but remains unable to diminish his towering legacy

The Guardian - UK

100 Years After His Death, Russians Shrug At Lenin's Legacy

For almost a century after his death, Vladimir Lenin's carefully preserved body has lain in a purpose-built mausoleum on Red Square -- a glaring reminder of Russia's communist past.

International Business Times

Death of the Armenian dream in Nagorno-Karabakh was predictable but not inevitable

Thirty-five years ago, more than 100,000 Armenian protesters took to the streets to convince Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that Nagorno-Karabakh – an ethnically Armenian enclave stuck geographically in the neighboring republic of Soviet Azerbaijan – ought to be joined to Armenia.

The Conversation

Russia's disastrous decision to invade Poland in 1920 has parallels with Putin's rhetoric over Ukraine

From the beginning, Russia has framed its invasion of Ukraine as necessary for the defence of the country. According to Vladimir Putin, Nato’s deliberate and aggressive encroachment into a region once dominated by Moscow is to blame, as the west seeks to dismember Russia. By extension, Ukraine – a country,…

The Conversation

‘From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads’: my 2,700-mile bike ride into Bowie’s Life on Mars?

Sailors fighting, Lennon on sale, all those mice … the single released 50 years ago this week is David Bowie at his most enigmatic. Could a cycling odyssey unravel its mysteries?

The Guardian - UK

Communism explained in 60 seconds: ideas that changed the world

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world.

The Week

Hrot review

A shooter whose imaginative levels and grim looks belie an off-the-wall sense of humor.

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Victoria 3's first gameplay DLC lets you invite Marx and Lenin to your place for tea and revolution

Voice of the People is all about rousing the rabble.

Fortune

Harlan Crow discusses his friendship with Justice Clarence Thomas for the first time

“It blows my mind that people assume that because Clarence Thomas has friends, that those friends have an angle.”

Daily Mirror

Paranoid Vladimir Putin regularly sleeping in his office in Kremlin over war stress

Russian President Vladimir Putin is said to have abandoned his gymnast lover, Alina Kabaeva, to seek refuge in the well-guarded Kremlin after becoming paranoid and stressed after unleashing his war on Ukraine

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Ukraine needs continued Western support — and tough love — on its path to true nationhood

The day the Ukrainian Parliament declared independence on Aug. 24, 1991, I witnessed the historical moment from the gallery with my wife and a group of Western expatriates. Below us, amid rapturous applause, a huge Ukrainian flag was carried into the hall on the shoulders of many of Ukraine’s founding…

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The Independent UK

Fallen colossus: USSR's terror, triumphs began 100 years ago

With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Ukrainians are fighting for their existence. They know the history of the genocidal Holodomor

In Ukraine and in Canada, the fourth Saturday in November is the official day of remembrance for the Holodomor. The Holodomor, a Ukrainian portmanteau for “death by starvation” or “terror famine,” refers to the Russian-engineered famine and genocide that killed millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33.

Al Jazeera

Are Putin’s views fascist?

The Russian leader often evokes a philosopher who praised Mussolini, but analysts are divided on Putin’s own ideology.

The Independent UK

Finnish city removes last publicly displayed statue of Lenin

A city in southeastern Finland has removed the country’s last publicly displayed statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin

Reuters

Factbox-Honour or disgrace - how Russia has buried its past leaders

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, will be buried on Saturday in Moscow's Novodevichy cemetery but there is no official day of mourning and it will not be a state funeral.

The Independent UK

Gorbachev's funeral, burial will reflect his varied legacy

The funeral and burial plans for Mikhail Gorbachev will sum up the crosscurrents of his legacy

Al Jazeera

‘It took me decades to realise what Gorbachev gave me’

Mansur Mirovalev reflects on the Soviet leader, who has died at 91.

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