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    Fifty years after Nixon’s cold war coup, the US is facing a new global realignment

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    Simon Schama: when history is weaponised for war

    As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world

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    Facing a political crackdown, austere Covid rules and an uncertain future, many Hong Kongers are fleeing into exile — and battling to preserve their identity

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    Macron, Le Pen and France’s long battle between order and dissent

    Charles de Gaulle said the French were ‘ingouvernables’. Do the country’s widening divisions prove him right?

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
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    Natalia Sindeyeva: Russia’s unlikely media revolutionary

    Once a socialite, she founded a TV channel that became a beacon of Russian dissent. Now, in exile, she’s plotting her next move

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    What war in Ukraine means for the age of the autocrat

    The world’s strongmen are watching Vladimir Putin’s gamble play out in Ukraine — and the consequences of his success or failure will be global

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    War in Ukraine: free to read
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    Generations of leaders have wrestled over a lasting settlement in Europe. What can today’s negotiators learn from centuries of statecraft?

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine: free to read
    Maria Stepanova: the war of Putin’s imagination

    An award-winning Russian writer on how fear as well as dictatorship led her homeland to launch its disastrous invasion of Ukraine

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    Inside Putin’s circle — the real Russian elite

    As the west focuses on oligarchs, a far smaller group has its grip on true power in Moscow. Who are the siloviki — and what motivates them?

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine: free to read
    Francis Fukuyama: Putin’s war on the liberal order

    Democratic values were already under threat around the world before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now we need to rekindle the spirit of 1989

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    War in Ukraine: free to read
    Russia, Ukraine and the 30-year quest for a post-Soviet order

    Historian Mary Elise Sarotte tells the inside story of the west’s efforts to secure a post-cold-war settlement — and how Putin seized on missteps and Russian grievances to destroy it

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
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    The Premier League at 30 — an English success story?

    Since the top clubs broke away from their peers in 1992, foreign players and money have flooded in

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    Tales from the Beijing Winter Olympics bubble

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    Venture capital’s new race for Europe

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    War in Ukraine
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    As the Kremlin attempts to reassert control over its neighbours, Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy uncovers the deep roots of the crisis

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    Fact and fiction: the lessons of Ryszard Kapuscinski

    As Poland reconsiders the legacy of its most famous journalist, the controversies over his writing feel more relevant than ever

  • Friday, 31 December, 2021
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    The resonance of Andrei Sakharov in Putin’s Russia

    Thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union the legacy and spirit of the late dissident remain grimly relevant

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    Life & Arts
    From the box to the bubble: what happened to festive TV?

    Henry Mance looks back at the golden age of Christmas event television — and considers what might take its place

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  • Friday, 3 December, 2021
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    A century on, how the Anglo-Irish Treaty was done

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    Life & Arts
    A fragile freedom — abortion and the American divide

    The landmark decision that legalised pregnancy termination in the US is under threat. How did it come to this?

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