This is the full speech at he ceremony of EL MUNDO ‘Freedom of the Press’ award 2024: At dawn on… Leer más Power is always more vicious than its checks and balances
This is the full speech at he ceremony of EL MUNDO ‘Freedom of the Press’ award 2024: At dawn on… Leer más Power is always more vicious than its checks and balances
Thirty-nine years ago, the Chernobyl accident occurred, a day as terrible as any Ukraine has endured since 2022 under the… Leer más Memories of Chernobyl: Pripyat, life without us
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Serguei Karaganov is an informal adviser of Vladimir Putin, but never paid by the Kremlin: ”Nearly free as a bird,… Leer más SERGUEI KARAGANOV: “We will win. And then Ukrainians will become prorrusians, like Eastern Germans did in our external empire”
In the center of Kharkov, a forest recalls the past. They say that the trunks are full of bullets from… Leer más Kharkov, not looking back
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya couldn’t imagine a few years ago, when she was working as an English teacher, that she would end… Leer más Svetlana Tikhanovskaya: «Putin did not support the Belarusian opposition because he feared contagion in Russia»
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The Cossacks in the sunny Kuban region don’t want to be the ‘bad cop’. They were one of the resistance forces against the Bolsheviks during the civil war of a century ago. Since they were rehabilitated by Boris Yeltsin, they have tried to recover their traditions and preserve their identity.
Inside the apartment block on the central Lesnaya Street there is a strange atmosphere. On several floors there are pots… Leer más Anna Politkovskaya, killed twice: 15 years later her case is closed
30 years ago, the Warsaw Pact, Moscow’s armed response to NATO, and a way to channel Soviet military activity into… Leer más 30 years since the end of the Warsaw Pact: Moscow has to overcome the ‘shock’ of the shift from Central Europe to the West