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Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.

Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.

For anyone passingly familiar with the turbulent events of 1968 in modern Czech history...

A direct road runs from Narovlya to Ivankiv near Kyiv.

Images show destruction in Ukraine after the Russian invasion

Photos from Russia's borders show a recent amassing of weapons, vehicles and personnel.

Satellite images taken on Monday show a Russian military convoy north of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv that stretches for about 64 kilometres, substantially longer than the 27 kms reported earlier in the day.

President Zelensky has already accused Putin of war crimes after his forces launched what were believed to be cluster and vacuum bomb attacks in a bid to turn the tide on a conflict they are losing.

Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) Beriev A-50 ‘Mainstay' airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft have been flying daily missions from an airbase in Belarus to co-ordinate Moscow's air offensive against Ukraine. A file photo of the A...

Taking control of the Chernobyl power station is a veiled threat to Western Europe that the Russian’s could uncap the concrete dome and trigger another environmental disaster