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For Ukraine’s refugees, Europe opens doors that were shut to others

Putin has declared that history is destiny, and that Ukraine will never get away from Russia.

Moscows large-scale attack launched on Ukraine erases any lingering doubts about where Russia’s president wants to go. Vladimir Putin is taking back part of the Soviet empire and attacking the European post-War order. Europe and NATO must respond, by arming the eastern flank.

“Servants,” written by Marek Lescak, Rebecca Lenkiewicx, and Ivan Ostrochovsky and directed by Ostrochovsky, is a throwback to the golden age of the Czech New…

So here we go: Putin has rolled the dice. On February 21, he issued a decree recognizing the breakaway People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk (DNR

The Russian president has checked off every box he needs to launch an invasion—except for sending in the tanks.

“Time is on Russia’s side,” wrote one Ukrainian observer in 1993. “It [Russia] will probably not soften its position, and it will probably take advantage of circumstances to encourage Crimean separatist aspirations.”

By recognising DNR and LNR, Putin is pushing for war. But he will not emerge victorious.

Forget Dalí and Magritte. This sprawling survey captures the extraordinary scope of a global artistic explosion, from fantastical feminists to black power activists to Vodou painter priests

Do you remember when western Europe hoped that one day Russia would join it, so that Europe would stretch from the Atlantic coast to the Urals? (...)