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Russian rap has long held up a mirror to Russian society – and the current reflection isn't flattering

In retrospect, rap in 1990s Russia was truly free. How so? Look around: the bright post-Soviet future of which Russians caught a glimpse during the 1990s has collapsed, replaced with something much darker, with one of its victims being rap.

The Conversation

GOP's House paralysis is a crisis in a time of crises

House Republicans fired one leader, Kevin McCarthy, and have spent almost three weeks trying unsuccessfully to choose another to succeed him as speaker of the House. That’s left the U.S. House of Representatives unable to do its work, paralyzing the entire legislative branch of government, because the Senate can’t pass…

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Chicago: From Stacker of Wheat to Stacker of Wheat Thins!

Mayor Brandon Johnson should remember the sorry history of state-run supermarkets.

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How Russian history and the concept of 'smuta' (turmoil) sheds light on Putin and Prigozhin – and the dangers of dissent

In Russia, failed coups portend turmoil and collapse. They also herald greater repression, and a tightening of centralised control. This is because Russian history has swung back and forth between chaos and autocracy, which have become mutually reinforcing symptoms of the same historical condition.

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‘My Fears and Hatred’: Navalny lambasts the 1990s democrats of Russia

Jailed opposition leader slams those charged with rebuilding Russia’s politics and economy after the Soviet collapse.

Al Jazeera

More corrupt, fractured and ostracised: how Vladimir Putin has changed Russia in over two decades on top

Vladimir Putin’s own version of history casts himself as modern Russia’s bulwark and champion.

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Why does Russia want to block Ukraine from joining Nato?

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to Western military alliance

The Independent UK

Why does Russia want to block Ukraine from joining Nato?

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to Western military alliance

The Independent UK

Belarus role in Russia-Wagner feud ‘boosts Lukashenko’s clout’

President Alexander Lukashenko has trumpeted his ‘peacekeeping’ role in quelling the Wagner rebellion in Russia.

Al Jazeera

Editorial: Russian roulette: Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group rebellion sputters out but the Ukraine war continues

During the failed August 1991 putsch in Russia, the good guys were reformers Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. The bad guys were an incompetent claque of the military and KGB within the Politburo and the rebellion fizzled when Yeltsin climbed on that tank in Moscow. The Kremlin’s nukes were kept…

Tribune News Service

Musician Travis Leake spoke up about freedom of speech in Russia with Anthony Bourdain in 2014. Now he’s been detained

Russia has a history of arresting Americans to be used as political leverage against the US, Gustaf Kilander reports

The Independent UK

Patriots: What is the true story behind the hit Tom Hollander play?

The play sees Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Putin change from friends to enemies

Evening Standard

I got rich in Russia and got out in time, twice. Here’s what I learned about democracy and free markets

Most totalitarian regimes never prosper for more than a generation or two. The parasitic behaviors of such governments eventually drain the economy.

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The Independent UK

Zelensky needs Sunak to push Ukraine’s allies to go further and faster over weapons and jets

Britain’s willingness to step first unto the breach over military support has spurred wider Western action, writes Kim Sengupta. The Ukrainian president needs that now more than ever

The Guardian - UK

We knew in 2011 Putin would attack Ukraine, says Bill Clinton

Revelation raises questions about whether US and Europe should have been more prepared for 2014 invasion

The Independent UK

Bill Clinton reveals regret over Russia-Ukraine deal that saw Kyiv give up nuclear weapons

Former US president said he knew that Vladimir Putin ‘did not support’ the 1994 agreement for Russia to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty

Fortune

Bill Clinton feels ‘terrible’ about the role he played in denuclearizing Ukraine

The Ukraine war has cast a shadow over a 1994 denuclearization agreement between Ukraine and Russia brokered by the U.S.

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Al Jazeera

Russia, Belarus celebrate ‘unity’ as war grinds on in Ukraine

The ex-Soviet allies have grown closer and Lukashenko’s dalliances with the West appear to be over, say analysts.

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin: What is driving Russian leader’s relentless assault on Ukraine?

He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky

ABC News

The Soviet spy films that inspired a young Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin grew up in "brute, almost Darwinian conditions". But his skills as a master manipulator would take him far.

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin: What is driving Russian leader’s relentless assault on Ukraine?

He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky

The Independent UK

Kremlin image-maker turned critic Gleb Pavlovsky dies at 71

Gleb Pavlovsky, a Soviet-era dissident who served as a Kremlin political consultant helping burnish President Vladimir Putin’s image, has died

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin: What is driving Russian leader’s relentless assault on Ukraine?

Ukraine – a year of war: He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky

The Independent UK

Ruslan Khasbulatov, who led Russian parliament revolt, dies

Ruslan Khasbulatov, who led a rebellion against Russia’s first post-Soviet president, has died

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