The armed conflict in South-East Ukraine has brought a massive increase in refugees in the Russian Federation. This article examines the meaning-making process surrounding the sudden presence of these refugees, through analysis of narratives in three major national newspapers – Izvestiya, Novaya ...
Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001 census) Religions: Ukrainian Orthodox - Kiev Patriarchate 19%, Orthodox (no particular jurisdiction) 16%, Ukrainian...
Fresh audio product: Trump, Israeli public opinion, the meaning of Ukraine Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 7, 2024 DH comments on the Trump victory, especially the role of inflation • Dahlia Scheindlin on Israeli public opinion • James Foley and Vladimi...
Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Friday that it had deployed “Kinzhal” (meaning “Dagger” in Russian) hypersonic aeroballistic missiles to destroy a large underground warehouse of Ukrainian missiles and aviation ammunition in Delyatin, in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of western Ukraine. Read more...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday evening that the U.S. took “every possible effort to deter” Russian President Vladimir Putin from advancing into Ukraine. In an interview with NBC Nightly News, Blinken said Putin’s goal all along was to “get Ukraine back into hi...
In ancient Greek myths, the sea—then on the fringe of the Mediterranean world—was named Pontus Axeinus, meaning “Inhospitable Sea.” Later explorations made the region more familiar, and, as colonies were established along the shores of a sea the Greeks came to know as more hospitable and...
Over at the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been chairing a meeting of the Pobeda organising committee via videoconference. The Pobeda (meaning "victory") is the Russian annual parade in which Soviet success again Nazi Germany in the Second World War is celebrated. ...
His campaign said the signatures were carefully chosen to avoid the possibility that the CEC would reject a significant proportion of them, meaning that he would be barred from running in the March vote. But according to Nadezhdin's campaign, the CEC concluded in a meeting held Monday that ...
The British government still has to approve the takeover, the Premier League said in a statement. Russian oligarch Roman Abramovichput Chelsea up for sale in early Marchfollowing outrage over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. Days later,the U.K. sanctioned Abramovich— meaning a sale of the elite...
a costly war in Ukraine, and while its forces have generally performed better recently than they did two years ago when they first invaded, the outcome of this war remains unclear. The Russian economy isn’t strong; an enduring war in Ukraine isn’t beneficial to Putin or the Russian ...