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Russia’s multi-tentacled Wagner Group is not just sending mercenaries to Ukrainian. It’s also fighting the West with making slick propaganda films.
Peace is finally in sight in Afghanistan as the U.S.-Taliban deal was signed and intra-Afghan peace talks are slated to begin Tuesday in Oslo, Norway. Afghanistan is the only country in modern history that has been at war for almost half a century; it has been haunted...
As long as there have been governments to rebel against, there have been violent attempts to repress the rebels. Military dictatorships often prove useful examples of this. Augusto Pinochet's rule in Chile, for example, was marked by the repression of leftist politics. Allegations of human ...
Over the course of world history, groups of citizens have torn down public monuments in times of political upheaval, without the official blessing of any city council or state legislature. Next, we'll look at the long history of tearing down public monuments. ...
Another much-shared footage is about a mysterious Ukrainian fighter pilot dubbed "the Ghost of Kiev" shooting down a Russian aircraft. However, the video was also fake, originating from a digital combat simulator game. On Feb. 5, 2003, in a UN Security Council meeting on Iraq, then U.S....
It was unclear what was burning. In the streets of Hmeimim, a bucolic town dotted with orange groves, many of the shops bear signs in Russian, a nod to the significance of the Russian military presence in the area. But whether and how long that presence will last after the fall of ...
It was unclear what was burning. In the streets of Hmeimim, a town dotted with orange groves, many of the shops bear signs in Russian, a nod to the significance of the Russian military presence. But whether and how long that presence will last after the fall of former Syr...
marking the beginning of a new era. It was during this time that the idea of an inclusive Russian national identity had formed, laying the foundation for the self-perception of the diversified Russian society. The war also became a source of great literary masterpieces, ‘War and Peace...