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Fifty years after Nixon’s cold war coup, the US is facing a new global realignment
As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world
Facing a political crackdown, austere Covid rules and an uncertain future, many Hong Kongers are fleeing into exile — and battling to preserve their identity
Charles de Gaulle said the French were ‘ingouvernables’. Do the country’s widening divisions prove him right?
Once a socialite, she founded a TV channel that became a beacon of Russian dissent. Now, in exile, she’s plotting her next move
After three decades writing about business, the FT’s innovation editor decided to get his hands dirty . . .
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
Polina Ivanova, Gillian Tett, Henry Foy, Courtney Weaver, and professor and former USSR-based journalist Anatol Lieven will take your questions at 4pm GMT/12pm EST
Generations of leaders have wrestled over a lasting settlement in Europe. What can today’s negotiators learn from centuries of statecraft?
An award-winning Russian writer on how fear as well as dictatorship led her homeland to launch its disastrous invasion of Ukraine
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?
Democratic values were already under threat around the world before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now we need to rekindle the spirit of 1989
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
Since the top clubs broke away from their peers in 1992, foreign players and money have flooded in
Inside the ‘closed loop’: the Games are showing just how far China will go to keep Covid at bay
The continent has been slow to develop tech unicorns. Can Silicon Valley’s creativity and cash spark a winning streak?
As the Kremlin attempts to reassert control over its neighbours, Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy uncovers the deep roots of the crisis
Investors may be cooling on the at-home exercise business, but it has changed the way millions work out
Lucy Kellaway on an unspoken prejudice — and a puzzling discrimination against our future selves
As Poland reconsiders the legacy of its most famous journalist, the controversies over his writing feel more relevant than ever
Thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union the legacy and spirit of the late dissident remain grimly relevant
Henry Mance looks back at the golden age of Christmas event television — and considers what might take its place
How creative minds at London’s Royal College of Art and beyond are finding ways to bypass the binary
The inside story of the knife-edge talks that established a new state — but also planted the seeds of future conflicts
The landmark decision that legalised pregnancy termination in the US is under threat. How did it come to this?
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