East Ukraine City Faces Separatist Split
Russian-speaking but Ukrainian, only 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the border with Russia yet 500 kilometers from Kiev, Kharkiv is suffering an acute identity crisis.
As Ukraine plunged into political crisis, residents of the eastern city of Kharkiv began making a weekly pilgrimage to one of two iconic statues. At the feet of Ukrainian national hero and poet Taras Shevchenko one group waves the country’s blue and…
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TD Original
Taking the temperature of freedom of expression in wartime Russia.
Military
It's not enough for Washington to urge talks from behind the scenes, while insisting in public that only Kyiv can negotiate.
The Kremlin has made military modernization a top priority amid tensions with the West after annexing Crimea in 2014.
Trump's real sin is 'hijacking' the establishment's (failed) foreign policy.
The unclassified record of Trump’s April 21 exchange with Volodymyr Zelenskiy bears scant resemblance to the official summary of the talk.
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