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On August 1st a journalist who writes for an American celebrity-gossip site woke up to a nasty shock. The site had been cloned, and she appeared as the author of a fake story claiming that Maia Sandu, the president of Moldova—a country that…
BBC Monitoring Russia editor
The war in Ukraine, sparked by Russia’s full-scale invasion in February…
Democrat Abigail Spanberger is launching her first major negative TV ad of the Virginia governor’s race, taking aim at Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears’ recent comments about federal government layoffs.
The 30-second spot, first shared…
In 2023, Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke with the historians Stephen Kotkin and Orville Schell about what drives Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin and how they are (and are not) like Mao and Stalin.
Xi and Putin loom over…
Vladimir Putin has said he is not ready to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy, even as the Kremlin said preparations were under way for a set-piece bilateral summit with Donald Trump next week.
“I have nothing against it in general, it is possible, but…