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Individual freedom and human rights have declined sharply in Russiaover the past decade and at an accelerated pace under PresidentVladimir Putin. The United States should attempt to stem thisdecline by promoting a diverse freedom agenda, strengthening publicdiplomacy, expanding U.S.-Russia student exchanges, and bolsteringdemocracy-promotion efforts in Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, andAzerbaijan.

Graves of the Great and Famous by Alastair Horne offers a world tour of the resting places of leading artists, thinkers, scientists, sportspeople, revolutionaries, politicians and pioneers.

The pseudo-left’s response to the war in Ukraine expresses the interests of the affluent middle class—a social layer which has travelled far to the right in recent decades.

The war against Russia in Ukraine does not mark the negation of decades of crimes of American imperialism in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, but their continuation.

These are the remarks of Andrei Ritzky, a representative of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists in Russia, to the December 10 rally organized by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality.

A few days after the comedian Dave Chappelle appeared to justify the never-ending appeal of Jewish conspiracy theories, this sentence appeared in the New York Times: “Bankman-Fried is already drawing

These are the introductory remarks by Gregor Link, a member of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality in Germany, to the December 10 rally, “For a Mass Movement of Students and Youth to Stop the War in Ukraine!”

Jiang presided over the acceleration of capitalist restoration following the crushing of the Tiananmen Square protests in June 1989, with devastating consequences for the working class.

The following are the remarks by Barbara Slaughter, the longest active member of the Fourth International, to the December 10 rally, “For a Mass Movement of Students and Youth to Stop the War in Ukraine!” organized by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality.

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