Category: 1. Russia

Continuing a drive that Russian lawmakers have previously slammed as “de-russification,” Kyrgyzstan has taken down two more statues of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and removed his name from several streets and schools.

Officials in the southern…

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a telephone conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Ankara was ready to facilitate contacts between Moscow and Kiev. This was reported in the office of the Turkish…

Russia launched air strikes on Ukraine in the early hours of August 28, hitting Kyiv with drones and missiles, causing multiple deaths. Survivors of the attacks on the Ukrainian capital dug through debris and looked for missing loved ones as…

In a recent Meet the Press interview, the vice-president of the US, J.D. Vance, argued in relation to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine: “This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to world war two, if you go back to…