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Who could benefit from the crisis over Ukraine?

In recent months, the attention of the world's media has turned to the situation in Ukraine, where large groups of Russian troops have been deployed along the border. At the moment, this topic has become the top item for all news agencies. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union until…

Bangkok Post

Famine, subjugation and nuclear fallout: How Soviet experience helped sow resentment among Ukrainians toward Russia

Ukraine and Russia share a great deal in the way of history and culture – indeed for long periods in the past, the neighboring countries were part of larger empires encompassing both territories.

The Conversation

The Putin Doctrine

A Move on Ukraine Has Always Been Part of the Plan

Foreign Affairs

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Explainer-Why is Russia's Putin drawing "red lines" over Ukraine?

Ukraine has become the main flashpoint in Moscow's relations with the West, with Russian troops massed near its border and NATO's forces on standby in case Russia attacks its neighbour.

Reuters

Biden scrambles to defuse Ukraine crisis in first foreign policy test since Afghanistan debacle

Some experts believe Putin views US as being as vulnerable as Russia was after break-up of Soviet Union, writes Andrew Buncombe

The Independent UK

Where Ukraine’s Sunflowers Once Sprouted, Fears Now Grow

On a warm spring day in Ukraine 26 years ago, three men smiled for cameras as they planted symbolic sunflower seedlings in freshly tilled earth where Soviet nuclear missiles had once stood ready. That placid scene was, briefly, a launchpad for hope that the demise of the Soviet Union would…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Guterres: World More Unpredictable than during the Cold War

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday the current world is "much more chaotic, much less predictable" than during the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States, and it's dangerous because there are no "instruments" to deal with crises. He said in a wide-ranging press conference that…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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UN chief: World more unpredictable than during the Cold War

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the current world is “much more chaotic, much less predictable” than during the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States, and it’s dangerous because there are no “instruments” to deal with crises

The Independent UK

At the “Roof of the World,” solar power is a necessary evil

Since the fall of the Soviet Union and Tajikistan’s subsequent independence in 1991, neither state-supplied electricity nor state water has reached Alichur, a town of 2,000 people that sits 13,000 feet above sea level in the Pamir Mountains.

Inverse

Democracy activist who fought behind Iron Curtain ordained into Kirk

Rev Dr Urzula Glienecke lived in Latvia under Soviet Union rule when it was dangerous to be a Christian.

The Independent UK

What Vladimir Putin really wants

The West cannot ignore a determined Russian President any more as Moscow prepares for its next act — on Ukraine

The Hindu

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