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The Latest Breaking News from Joseph Stalin

The Power Struggle After Putin

Russia’s Inevitable Succession Crisis

Foreign Affairs

Sanctions won't stop Putin — this might

All along, Putin has counted on the fact that Europe needs Russian gas. But that's also his Achilles heel

Salon

How Russia's fixation on the Second World War helps explain its Ukraine invasion

Russian media references to the “de-Nazification” of Ukraine to justify its invasion have placed Russia'a fascination with the Second World War in the public eye.

The Conversation

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Ukraine and the psychology of genocide

To understand the massacre in Bucha, we need to stop off at Babi Yar, Katyn and Oradour-sur-Glane. It's a long trip

Salon

Why does Russia keep poisoning people? The wild history of Moscow's chemical assassination plots

Billionaire Roman Abramovich is just the latest in a long line of people who suspect they may be the target of a Kremlin poison plot. Russia is well-practised in the art of chemical assassinations, but carrying out a murder using poison is inherently risky.

ABC News

Korean Ukrainians refuse to become 'Russian prisoners' again

Fighting against Russia's invasion means more than independence for many Korean Ukrainians, whose ancestors were deported by Joseph Stalin to Central Asia.

ABC News

Putin calls them ‘gnats.’ But war back home strengthens ties of a South Florida community

MIAMI — Ukrainian Olena Doronina and Russian Alexandra Ignatkina huddled over their cellphones to watch videos sent by Doronina’s son and siblings, who are trapped in Kherson, a Black Sea port city in the south of Ukraine occupied by Russian soldiers.

Miami Herald

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Act or dissolve, Zelensky challenges UN, but Ukraine atrocities already pile pressure on Russia

In his first address to the UN Security Council since the Russian invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week called on the 15-member body to reform itself or face dissolution. That may be easier said than done. But the response to reports of Russian atrocities in Bucha, near Kyiv, highlights…

France 24

Elon Musk blows up Twitter — twice

The news comes a day after filings revealed the Tesla and SpaceX CEO is now Twitter's largest shareholder

Salon

Poland hits out at Macron after massacre in Bucha: ‘Nobody negotiated with Hitler’

‘Nobody negotiated with Hitler. You would negotiate with Hitler, with Stalin, with Pol Pot afterwards?’

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin sets up hotline to urge 'good' Russians to report 'traitors'

The Kremlin and Vladimir Putin have set up a hotline and website that enables everyday ordinary Russians to rat out their neighbours, family and friends and other citizens over anti-war sentiment

Daily Mirror

‘What would this Ukrainian like for her 100th birthday? That Putin will die’

Elderly citizens in Kyiv who have lived through Hitler’s Holocaust and Stalin’s Holodomor fear that history is repeating itself with Russia’s invasion

The Guardian - UK

As bombs fall, Muslims in Ukraine face difficult Ramadan

Preparations for fasting month both hard and emotional for Ukraine’s Muslim population following Russian invasion.

Al Jazeera

Putin exploits the lie machine but didn’t invent it. British history is also full of untruths

Our own crisis of truth is responsible for some of the world’s biggest problems, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

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Writers in bombed out Kharkiv seek inspiration in historical resistance

‘It feels like history is repeating itself,’ says local poet as Russian bombs fall

Salon

A Republican who wanted world government

It sounds like alternate history: A Republican who ran against FDR — from the left. Meet Wendell Willkie

Tribune News Service

Jay Ambrose: Evil wins when left alone

Evil, when it knocks on the door, when it walks in the room, when it surrounds us and smiles at its likely victory, is one of the worst things in life. Still, we are seeing it in Russian President Vladimir Putin just as in Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler and too…

Salon

Geopolitics and the Ukraine conflict

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

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Daily Record

Drunk claimed he is Jeremy Kyle and Joseph Stalin in foul-mouthed rant at cops

Robert Fraser admitted his guilt at Paisley Sheriff Court this week.

Daily Mirror

7 ominous warning signs to the world from Vladimir Putin before Ukraine invasion

Russian President Vladimir Putin, 69, rose to power in Russia in 2000 and is the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin

The Conversation

The Cold War, modern Ukraine and the spread of democracy in the former Soviet bloc countries

As Russia masses forces and equipment on Ukraine’s border, international tensions over a possible invasion intensify almost daily. Ukraine has emerged as ground zero of what some pundits have dubbed a new Cold War between Russia and the West.

Daily Mirror

Google Maps shows abandoned Russian labour camp dubbed 'most depressing place on earth'

Google Maps images at 69°24'19°N 87°38'57°E, show what appears to be the hallowed ground where deconstructed buildings are now grey rubble

The Conversation

Famine, subjugation and nuclear fallout: How Soviet experience helped sow resentment among Ukrainians toward Russia

Ukraine and Russia share a great deal in the way of history and culture – indeed for long periods in the past, the neighboring countries were part of larger empires encompassing both territories.

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