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This Week in History: Blizzards, hijackings and the loss of a princess

From power struggles to global crises, explore how major events between 22 and 28 December were captured on The Independent’s front pages

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Putin Promises No More Wars If Russia is 'Treated With Respect'

During a Kremlin-organized broadcast, where he answered questions from international journalists, the Russian president promised that there would be no more "special military operations" if the West treated Russia with "respect."

International Business Times

This Week in History: Soviet collapse, Clinton’s impeachment, and the death of Pinochet

From power struggles to global crises, explore how major events between 8 and 14 December were captured on The Independent’s front pages

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Nancy Reagan’s rehearsal dinners and Bush Sr’s overfed dog: chief usher’s White House memories

Gary Walters managed the president’s official residence for 37 years – now he’s sharing his most vivid recollections

The Guardian - US

This Week in History: 3-9 November

From elections and scandals to the moments that made history, dive into The Independent’s front pages and see how this week’s stories unfolded through the years

The Independent UK

Mutual inconvenience: why Alaska for the Trump-Putin summit on Ukraine?

Remote US state is not an easy destination for either leader, but the choice of venue reflects the many factors at play

The Guardian - UK

The troubled legacy of Ion Iliescu, who rebuilt Romania but left it torn in two

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after Communism, helped bring down the country’s dictatorship and led its transition to democracy and a market economy. A central figure in the 1989 revolution, he went on to serve three terms as head of state – but was later charged with crimes…

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Trump poised to meet Putin to discuss Ukraine – but Zelensky set to be left on the sidelines

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The Conversation

Where Trump and Putin could meet as presidents expected to reunite for Ukraine ceasefire summit

With the summit venue yet to be announced, all eyes are on where the two presidents could meet

The Independent UK

'I Hope You're Losing Tons of Money': Jeff Daniels Blasts Trump Supporters Over Economic Fallout

Jeff Daniels may be known for his wide-ranging film roles — from the slapstick Harry in "Dumb and Dumber" to a serious Atticus Finch on Broadway — but his latest comments about politics and the economy have drawn attention for a very different reason.

Benzinga

Vladimir Putin: After 25 years in power, what next for Russia’s president?

From chasing rats as a child to the KGB, how 72-year-old Putin came to power – and what drives him now.

Al Jazeera

Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB spy who defected to the UK in the Cold War, dies at 86

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has died at home in England.

Euronews

Oleg Gordievsky: the spy who helped avert a nuclear war

The ex-KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end the Cold War.

Evening Standard

Republican Russophilia: how Trump Putin-ised a party of cold war hawks

The idea of Moscow as a paragon of Christian nationalism has penetrated the party of Reagan – and the lurch in US policy has huge implications for the global order

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The Conversation

Will the U.S. collapse like the Soviet Union did?

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

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Trump Shakes Global Order While Keir Starmer Walks a Political Tightrope—Disaster Looms!

But rather than the Russian leader, it’s the supposed leader of the Free World who Sir Keir is negotiating with. Donald Trump’s “shock and awe” start to his

The Conversation

Ukraine war: why negotiations depend on trust

Donald Trump may have begun discussions with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, over a possible end to the war in Ukraine, but there currently appears to be something of a stalemate.

The Guardian - US

Reagan-era Republicans aghast as Trump turns Russia policy on its head

Officials who served under Republican president in 1980s say Trump is opposing friends and supporting enemies: ‘It makes me sick what’s going on’

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin's Russia-Ukraine deal risks making a bad war even worse

Pretty much everyone wants the war in Ukraine to end. A conflict unleashed on its neighbour by Russia which has led to an estimated death toll of over 100,000 on the Ukrainian side and beyond 150,000 on the Russian one is a tragedy of the age and a symptom of…

Al Jazeera

Doomsday Clock is now 89 seconds to midnight, what does that mean?

For the first time in three years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock forward by one second.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on arms control: essential to prevent the total devastation of nuclear war

Editorial: Over the holidays, this column will explore next year’s urgent issues. Today we look at why an unqualified belief in nuclear deterrence can’t keep us safe

The Guardian - UK

Malta summit ends the cold war – archive, 1989

On 3 December 1989, the US and the USSR declared an end to the cold war. A few days later, European Community leaders met to shape a single European market for the 1990s. See how the Guardian reported events

The Conversation

Fall of Khrushchev: 60 years since the ‘most democratic coup’ in Soviet history, how Comrade Nikita was toppled

The overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev from the posts of first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and the leader of the Soviet state in October 1964 was an unprecedented event in the history of the Soviet Union.

Reason

Looking at Reagan Through the Lens of Trump

Max Boot's biography of Ronald Reagan is deeply researched and informative, but it sometimes stumbles when it tries to use the past to make sense of the present.

The Independent UK

Steven Hurst, who covered world events for The Associated Press, NBC and CNN, has died at 77

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