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What was the Soviet Union? USSR and Gorbachev’s role explained, and why it collapsed

Everything you need to know about the Soviet Union

Evening Standard

Mikhail Gorbachev: The rise and fall of the last Soviet leader

Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died aged 91, was revered in West but criticised by many Russians for overseeing end of USSR.

Al Jazeera

Mikhail Gorbachev obituary

The last leader of the Soviet Union, he was ousted as his reforms pointing to the end of the USSR spiralled out of control

The Guardian - UK

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The Disturbing Return of the Fifth Column

How enemies within—real and imagined—are influencing geopolitics.

Foreign Affairs

‘They would have preferred hell’: The Battle of Stalingrad, 80 years on

The Second World War’s deadliest battle – and one of the most brutal of all time – started on August 23, 1942, when Adolf Hitler’s forces went all out to seize the city bearing Joseph Stalin’s name. If ever a battle was like an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object,…

France 24

Vladimir Putin offers £13,000 to Russian mums who give birth to 10 children

Russian President Vladimir Putin is attempting to address the sharp decline in the country's population with a prestigious medal and offer of a significant financial reward around £13,000

Daily Mirror

End protest crackdown: UN, rights groups tell Sri Lanka president

Human rights experts urge the newly appointed leader Ranil Wickremesinghe to end the crackdown against the protesters.

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Germany Has Confronted Its Past. Now It Must Confront the Present.

Accepting—or rejecting—historical guilt for past evils doesn’t absolve nations of present-day responsibility.

Foreign Policy

Sri Lankan government accused of draconian treatment of protesters

New president Ranil Wickremesinghe is attempting to crush mass protests that forced out predecessor

The Guardian - UK

Concerns as Sri Lanka arrests top protest leader Joseph Stalin

Arrest is part of an ongoing crackdown against people protesting against the government over island’s economic crisis.

Al Jazeera

Putin’s ‘food terrorism’ in Ukraine war leaves millions facing famine in Africa

Among those worst affected by the blockade are those in the Horn of Africa.

The Independent UK

Roosevelt and Ibn Saud built groundwork for current world order, on a boat

On Friday, Joe Biden will pay his first visit to Saudi Arabia as President of the US. The Biden trip is the latest twist in the saga of one of the most unlikely alliances in modern history.

Radio France Internationale

Putin’s propaganda is rooted in Russian history – and that's why it works

Russia’s war against Ukraine is pressing into its fifth month – despite several rounds of failed peace talks, and Western countries’ issuing severe economic sanctions against Russia.

The Conversation

Ukraine Recap: why a small Russian 'exclave' is suddenly so important

Well before Vladimir Putin sent his war machine over the border into Ukraine, the Russian president and his proxies were fulminating about Nato surrounding his country, establishing hostile military bases in its backyard and boxing it into a corner.

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Nottingham Post

Aiden Aslin now a pawn in Putin's total war strategy, says Ukrainian historian in Nottingham

Newark's Aslin was sentenced to death earlier in June

The Conversation

Why Putin's policy towards Ukraine has strong parallels to Stalin's post WWII plan for Germany

Almost four months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s policy is becoming clear. The war between Ukraine and Russia is likely to be a long one. It is becoming obvious that the western states, and particularly the countries of Europe, will have to provide assistance on an unprecedented scale,…

The Independent UK

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 Conversation

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.

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The Canberra Times

ANU project saves key Ukraine history

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

Salon

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

Foreign Policy

Chinese TikTok Users Are in Love With ‘Daddy Putin’

The Independent UK

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

Daily Mirror

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

Foreign Affairs

The Coup in the Kremlin

How Putin and the Security Services Captured the Russian State

Daily Mirror

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

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