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Dazzled by some country, company, or technology promising to burst forward, force change, dominate the next decade. this year the focus was not on the future but the past, people delved back into history to debate what caused russias invasion of ukraine. the swedish finance minister explained why his country, which hasnt been at war since the napoleonic wars was break its 200-year tradition of neutrality with its bit to join nato. the finnish foreign minister called the resistance to moscows agg...

Last weekend, russia turned off the tap, halting natural gas exports to finland. this came just days after finland and its nordic neighbor sweden officially applied for membership to nato. at the world economic forum in davos this week, i talked to finlands foreign minister and swedens finance minister about those paradigm-shifting decisions. sweden has been neutral for 200 years, maybe more. this is a big deal. give us a sense of, do swedes think of it in those historical terms, this is a break...

In russian grew and grew, until the invasion of ukraine brought an end to them. the last independent tv station, dozhd, finally closed down in march. now, russian television is absolutely relentless in its propaganda line, and its the job of francis scarr, of bbc monitoring, to watch it all, hour by hour and day by day. theres so much poison and vitriol in these programmes that the only way to manage this is to retreat into emotional neutrality. otherwise, its impossible to square what im hearin...

Non—government outlets writing and broadcasting in russian grew and grew, until the invasion of ukraine brought an end to them. the last independent tv station, dozhd, finally closed down in march. now russian television is absolutely relentless in its propaganda line. and its the job of francis scarr, of bbc monitoring, to watch it all — hour by hour and day by day. theres so much poison and vitriol in these programmes that the only way to manage this is to retreat into emotional neutrality...

Base their biggest fight. the survival of their nation under attack from putins russia. visiting ukrainian refugees taken in by swiss authorities, the mayor of keogh. an outside, vladimir trying to persuade the swiss to abandon the traditional neutrality and supply tank ammo. asking for hel and supply tank ammo. asking for help and support. _ supply tank ammo. asking for help and support. we - supply tank ammo. asking for help and support. we are - help and support. we are getting some of it but...

To australias status as a strategic partner to the pacific countries. so, no doubt, anthony albanese will be asking for support from his partners, but he has to choose his words very carefully because in addition to wanting to manage the chinese influence in the region, he also has to figure out how his government is going to heal a very fractured relationship with australias key trading partner. for india, the quad partnership is crucial to maintaining stability in the region. prime minister mo...

What one of his generals had to say. give a sense as to his sense whether ukraine wants to take some territory back. >> this is a really key question. previously, president zelenskyy has indicated -- he spoke to russian journalists in march, and he basically outlined what would potentially be the broad contours of a possible peace settlement with putin, which is, they retreat to the february 24 borders. ukraine declares neutrality, gives up on its nato membership aspirations, and then they start...

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