But Alexandra Prokopenko, a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center and former Russian central bank advisor, said economic challenges aren’t yet severe enough to force a quick end to the war. To be sure,
Around 295,000 people live in Murmansk, a port city founded in 1916 at the height of World War I. One of its Soviet-era landmarks, the 236-foot (72-meter) Arktika Hotel, is the tallest building north of the Arctic Circle. The region's second-largest city is Russian, too. Norilsk...
The footage, released by the 92nd Separate Mechanised Brigade, shows the Ukrainians drop a note to the Russian, telling him to follow the drone to their trenches. Bakhmut has been the site of intense fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops....
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Zelenskyy has previously presented a 10-point peace formula that, among other things, demands the expulsion of all Russian forces from Ukraine and accountability for war crimes. Those proposals are rejected out of hand by Moscow. The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank...
While the story appears to be about farm animals, it symbolizes Orwell’s disillusionment with the Bolshevik Revolution and critiques the Russian government. Unlike typical symbolism, which writers can integrate into a story, an allegory is meant to be understood symbolically from beginning to end. ...
Ukraine's president appears to be fighting a war on two fronts - against Russian forces on the ground and against American assaults over the airwaves. View from Ukraine byDeborah Haynes, security and defence editor WithDonald Trumpopenly atta...
To make a real postseason run, the team needs to use the trading deadline to find more pitching. And so Theo takes over a small space in the ticket sales office for the last week of July, turning it into a war room. The first trade brings reliever Mike Montgomery from the Mariners, ...
(many of its members were drug addicts or criminals). The patrol enters the Russian trench system and begins to clear it with the intent of later booby-trapping it. They carry an assortment of weapons, to include antitank rockets. This suggests that they were expecting to encounter Russian ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A deal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia “is still very, very far away,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that he expects to keep receiving American support despite his recent fraught relations with U.S