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Ukraine's president says 1991 borders must be recognised - adviser

Ukraine's president has not altered his position that the international borders in place when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 must continue to be recognised, a presidential adviser said on Thursday.

Reuters · Mar 17, 2022

Russia's actions in post-Soviet wars provide clues to its brutal Ukraine invasion

In the midst of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it’s worth examining the evolution of Russia’s official rhetoric and military actions in former Soviet states since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The Conversation · Mar 16, 2022

Russia playing ‘smoke and mirrors game’, says Liz Truss

UK foreign secretary also says Kremlin could extend ambitions to other east European countries in effort ‘recreate the Soviet Union’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2022

Why Russian attacks on innocent Ukrainian citizens will probably intensify

In 1942, a citizen of the southern Soviet Union city of Rostov-on-Don recalled its bombardment, documented in the book Rostov Under the Shadow of the Swastika by Vladislav Vyacheslavovich Smirnov:

The Conversation · Mar 14, 2022

Once a powerful symbol in Russia, McDonald's withdraws

Two months after the Berlin Wall fell, another powerful symbol opened its doors in the middle of Moscow: a gleaming new McDonald’s

The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2022

Commentary: President Biden says don’t worry about nuclear war. Maybe we should

I was in middle school the last time I contemplated dying in a nuclear fireball. It was 1983, and I had just seen “The Day After,” a TV movie that depicted a fictional but horrifying U.S.-Soviet war.

Chicago Tribune · Mar 14, 2022

Ukrainian-born Walter Polovchak — the Cold War’s ‘littlest defector’ — lives happily in a Chicago suburb but is devastated by events in his homeland

A black-and-white photograph from August 1980 shows 12-year-old Walter Polovchak, small and skinny with hair falling onto his forehead, flanked by adults as he walked into a courthouse for a custody hearing.

Chicago Tribune · Mar 14, 2022

India unsure of Russian arms to meet China, Pakistan threats

India is bracing for a disruption in Russian arms supplies following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tightrope walk between Moscow and Washington could become more difficult due to a border standoff with China

The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2022

Geopolitics and the Ukraine conflict

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have forged a new partnership in Eurasia. How will that shape the global future?

Salon · Mar 13, 2022

In Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cold War echoes reverberate

A rivalry with Russia

The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2022