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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

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 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…

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

With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus

From Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II to France’s iconic fashion designer Thierry Mugler and the Soviet Union’s last leader Mikhail Gorbachev, many notable public figures left us in 2022. FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the lives and legacies behind some of the year’s most high-profile deaths.

From Queen Elizabeth II to the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, here are some of 2022's most notable deaths in the fields of politics, sport, science and culture.

The West must avoid the mistakes of World War I.

The former Soviet leader’s longtime translator remembers an optimist who wanted to achieve his goals by persuasion, not force, and understood that he was a man of history