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What is NATO and what role does it play in the Russia-Ukraine crisis?

Formed in the aftermath of World War II to provide collective security against the Soviet Union, today NATO is the world's biggest and most powerful military alliance. This is what you need to know NATO and its role in the current Russia-Ukraine crisis.

ABC News · Jan 29, 2022

Commentary: Ukraine’s fate could renew a race for weapons of mass destruction

Regret is what Ukrainian leaders must be feeling these days, as Russia amasses troops along the border. There’s nothing that says “keep your hands off my territory” like fully armed, nuclear-tipped weaponry — the sort that Kyiv surrendered shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Now officials have no…

Los Angeles Times · Jan 29, 2022

Who could benefit from the crisis over Ukraine?

In recent months, the attention of the world's media has turned to the situation in Ukraine, where large groups of Russian troops have been deployed along the border. At the moment, this topic has become the top item for all news agencies. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union until…

Bangkok Post · Jan 28, 2022

Where Ukraine’s Sunflowers Once Sprouted, Fears Now Grow

On a warm spring day in Ukraine 26 years ago, three men smiled for cameras as they planted symbolic sunflower seedlings in freshly tilled earth where Soviet nuclear missiles had once stood ready. That placid scene was, briefly, a launchpad for hope that the demise of the Soviet Union would…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 23, 2022

Guterres: World More Unpredictable than during the Cold War

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday the current world is "much more chaotic, much less predictable" than during the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States, and it's dangerous because there are no "instruments" to deal with crises. He said in a wide-ranging press conference that…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 22, 2022

UN chief: World more unpredictable than during the Cold War

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the current world is “much more chaotic, much less predictable” than during the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States, and it’s dangerous because there are no “instruments” to deal with crises

The Independent UK · Jan 21, 2022

At the “Roof of the World,” solar power is a necessary evil

Since the fall of the Soviet Union and Tajikistan’s subsequent independence in 1991, neither state-supplied electricity nor state water has reached Alichur, a town of 2,000 people that sits 13,000 feet above sea level in the Pamir Mountains.

Inverse · Jan 20, 2022

Democracy activist who fought behind Iron Curtain ordained into Kirk

Rev Dr Urzula Glienecke lived in Latvia under Soviet Union rule when it was dangerous to be a Christian.

The Independent UK · Jan 20, 2022

What Vladimir Putin really wants

The West cannot ignore a determined Russian President any more as Moscow prepares for its next act — on Ukraine

The Hindu · Jan 19, 2022

Buran: The Soviet space shuttle that flew just once

The Buran spacecraft was the Soviet Union's response to NASA's space shuttle program.

Space · Apr 21, 2015