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Category: 8. Opinion
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‘Find Joy in Everything’: Election Monitor Grigory Melkonyants’ Last Word in Court
Grigory Melkonyants, the co-chair of the leading independent election monitor Golos, is set to be sentenced on charges of running an “undesirable” organization on Wednesday.
Since its founding, Golos has denounced alleged voting…
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Press Freedom in Russia Is at an All-Time Low. So Is Its Journalism Education.
My peers and I graduated from journalism school after the war in Ukraine had already begun. Out of the 30 people in my class, only one other graduate besides myself works in the field we studied. Even…
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Russia’s State Nuclear Giant Is Now Inseparable From Its War on Ukraine
If Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom is to be believed, 2024 was a banner year.
It is expanding its footprint in new markets in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, as well as in Central Asian post-Soviet states. It is…
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Letting the Dead March Again: How the Immortal Regiment Occupies the Present
On Sunday, in cities as geopolitically disparate as Washington, Calcutta, Frankfurt, Caracas, Rome and Paris, hundreds of members of the Russian diaspora and migrant community gathered to perform the…
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Why an Indo-Russian Newcomer to the Forbes List Matters to Putin
Forbes Magazine’s latest annual billionaires list includes 15 new entrants from Russia. A notable standout was the Indian-born pharmaceuticals businessman Vikram Punia, who boasts a net worth of $2.1 billion and is currently ranked…
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Foreign Policy Of New German Government Is Anti-Russian, But At What Cost? – CDM
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In a historic first, conservative leader Friedrich Merz ’s bid to become Germany’s 10th chancellor since World War II failed by six votes in…
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Putin’s Unilateral Easter Truce Was Never Intended to Last
U.S. President Donald Trump stands at a crossroads. With his push for peace in Ukraine faltering, he must either go against his instincts and put pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin (a…
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Would You Send Asylum Seekers at Risk of Torture Home? That’s What Europe Does to Chechens.
The rights of pro-Ukrainian Chechen refugees and asylum seekers in Europe — including those of pro-Ukrainian Chechen activists — are under attack. European authorities have largely failed to…
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Former CIA Operations Chief For Europe, Eurasia Says US Gave Ukraine Enough To Bleed But Not To Win – CDM
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Former CIA Operations Chief for Europe and Eurasia said in an interview with The Times in the United Kingdom that the U.S….
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