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What a cathedral and a massive military parade show about Putin's Russia

May 9, 2022, marks the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany. Victory Day has traditionally been a day to honor veterans and hold an enormous parade in Moscow to display the country’s military prowess.

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Civilians from Mariupol Flee Azovstal Bunkers in UN-Led Evacuation

Civilians were evacuated on Sunday from the bunkers of Mariupol's Azovstal steel works after the United Nations and the International Red Cross led a deal to ease the ordeal of the most destructive siege of the war in Ukraine. Russian forces pummeled the port city for nearly two months, turning…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Nicholas Goldberg: We weren't supposed to get anywhere near 1 million COVID deaths in the US. Then we did

At the start of the pandemic, in late March 2020, President Donald Trump held a White House briefing at which his top advisers presented their official COVID-19 death projections. In somber tones, they forecasted that between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans would die from the disease if we followed reasonable social-distancing…

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The case for a no-fly zone in Ukraine

As much as we may fear a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia, a no-fly zone, humanitarian airlifts, and even limited NATO airstrikes may be the only way to force the Russians to withdraw and for Putin’s insane war to end.

Chicago Sun-Times

More than 2,000 kids 'kidnapped and deported to Russia' in ‘violation’ of foreign law

Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that by “destroying homes and killing parents”, Russia deprives children of parental care and puts their lives in further danger

Daily Mirror

Russian special forces fighter dubbed Agent Stalin is killed in new blow to Putin

Documents found by Ukrainian forces in a captured armoured vehicle revealed the killed forces were Captain Konstantin Druzhkov, Islam Abduragimov and Shamil Aselderov

Daily Mirror

Putin’s war on history is another form of domestic repression

Vladimir Putin’s military aims, whether based on an attempt to restore the imperial grandeur of Russia or traditional Russian territorial paranoia, have resulted in the human tragedy of war unfolding before the world in Ukraine.

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Putin likens opponents to 'gnats,' signaling new repression

Facing stiff resistance in Ukraine and with crippling economic sanctions at home, Russian President Vladimir Putin is using language that recalls the rhetoric from Josef Stalin's show trials of the 1930s

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin’s tirade against Russian ‘traitors’ draws comparisons with Stalin

Kremlin watchers fear Putin’s remarks are a ‘prelude to ugly repression’

The Independent UK

Why Crimean Tatars are fearful as Russia invades Ukraine

As Vladimir Putin’s forces wage a brutal war against Ukraine, the Crimean Tatars living in Russian-occupied Crimea and on the Ukrainian mainland feel particularly threatened by their historic enemy’s latest invasion.

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John M. Crisp: Ukrainian patriots are fighting for what we believe in

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine last week happened to coincide with my reading of David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, our 33rd president. Clearly, Russia has been a problem for a long time.

Tribune News Service

Finland likens Russia's treatment of Ukraine to Soviet threats

Finland's president on Saturday compared Russia's current treatment of Ukraine to an attempt by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to threaten and divide Finland before invading in 1939.

Reuters

Ukraine and Russia: two countries whose memories of a 'shared' past could not be more different

With the recent build-up of Russian forces around Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s claim that Russians and Ukrainians occupy “the same historical and spiritual space” has taken on an ominous tone. In the eyes of large swaths of the Russian political elite, these countries share the same roots, some even dispute the…

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