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Paying the price of truth: Nobel peace laureate Dmitry Muratov won’t be silenced by Putin

The Russian newspaper editor speaks from Moscow in an exclusive interview as a new film biography charts his defiance of the Kremlin during the war in Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Why does Russia want to block Ukraine from joining Nato?

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to Western military alliance

The Independent UK

Why does Russia want to block Ukraine from joining Nato?

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to Western military alliance

The Independent UK

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The war pimps are still lying to us

Russia's invasion was a war crime. That's no excuse for the disastrous, destructive path of endless war

Salon

Editorial: Russian roulette: Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group rebellion sputters out but the Ukraine war continues

During the failed August 1991 putsch in Russia, the good guys were reformers Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. The bad guys were an incompetent claque of the military and KGB within the Politburo and the rebellion fizzled when Yeltsin climbed on that tank in Moscow. The Kremlin’s nukes were kept…

Tribune News Service

The Guardian view on the Arctic: threatened by Putin’s war

Editorial: Geopolitical fallout from the conflict in Ukraine is threatening an environmentally crucial region

The Guardian - UK

Timeline: China's Tiananmen Square demonstrations and crackdown

Sunday is the 34th anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in and around central Beijing's Tiananmen Square, when Chinese troops opened fire on their own people.

Reuters

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Communism explained in 60 seconds: ideas that changed the world

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world.

The Week

Zelensky needs Sunak to push Ukraine’s allies to go further and faster over weapons and jets

Britain’s willingness to step first unto the breach over military support has spurred wider Western action, writes Kim Sengupta. The Ukrainian president needs that now more than ever

The Independent UK

‘Excessive loyalty’: how Republican giant George Shultz fell for Nixon, Reagan … and Elizabeth Holmes

The great secretary of state’s biographer, Philip Taubman, balances cold war achievements with costly political failures

The Guardian - US

Is the Apple TV Plus Tetris movie true to life? Two things it gets wrong (and three things it gets right)

Apple TV Plus has a hit on its hands with the true-story movie about extracting Tetris from behind the Iron Curtain. But as almost always happens when real stories become films, some of the most dramatic bits never happened.

iMore

How George Shultz Helped End the Cold War

The official biography of Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state reveals startling lessons for U.S. engagement today.

Foreign Policy

Looking back: Werner Herzog on Putin and Russia - Roll Call

Werner Herzog had some interesting things to say about Russia and Vladimir Putin in this May 2019 Political Theater podcast.

Roll Call

Tetris Cast: Where You've Seen The Stars Of Apple TV+'s Movie About The Video Game

Check out who plays whom in Apple TV+'s Tetris cast, including Taron Egerton.

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The Guardian - US

Deals, drama and danger: the incredible true story behind Tetris

A new film shows how the addictive game found its way out of the Soviet Union and into the hands of millions

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin: What is driving Russian leader’s relentless assault on Ukraine?

He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin: What is driving Russian leader’s relentless assault on Ukraine?

He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin: What is driving Russian leader’s relentless assault on Ukraine?

Ukraine – a year of war: He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky

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The Guardian - UK

For years, Putin didn’t invade Ukraine. What made him finally snap in 2022?

This war is Russia’s fault. But European nations rebuffing Russia during the noughties did not help, says Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

The Conversation

Russia pulls out of New Start nuclear treaty – we've already seen how such agreements have limited aggression against Ukraine

Vladimir Putin’s decision to pull out of the New Start nuclear weapons treaty with the United States will have predictable responses.

The Guardian - UK

Hans Modrow obituary

Last communist prime minister of East Germany whose proposals for a slow process of reunification were pushed aside

The Guardian - UK

The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg: ‘The increasing aggression in Russia worries me – it could get bumpy’

The broadcaster’s Russia editor on Putin’s attitude to the BBC, the future of the war in Ukraine, and playing the piano with Mikhail Gorbachev

The Guardian - UK

Tear down these walls, or get used to a world of fear, separation and division

Europe was made whole in 1989. Now concern about migrant ‘invaders’ is turning the continent, and other global regions, into fortresses

The Conversation

Russia rekindles old friendship with South Africa, its ally against apartheid

The recent announcement that the South African, Russian and Chinese navies will conduct joint exercises off the east coast of South Africa between February 17 and 27, has alarmed the United States. Washington has condemned the decision as the exercises would appear to compromise South African neutrality in the diplomatic…

The New Daily

A president, a prime minister, the brilliant minds and business moguls: Leaders we lost in 2022

Their legacies live on in their chosen fields of expertise, having dedicated their lives to the pursuit of progress and development.

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