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Talks held in the final days of the USSR have shaped President Vladimir Putin?s views on the current European crisis After weeks of talk

A handful of British soldiers fighting against Russia-backed separatists say they are motivated by a sense of duty.

Today’s Ukraine is the Poland of 1939, expendable for the interest of major powers.

Strong Overall Performance with 2021 Preliminary Revenues Exceeding Plan1 Group to Raise Expectation for Full-Year 2021 Adjusted EBIT Margin2 2022 Outlook Signals Continued Sales Growth Further

Trying to pull some signal out of the considerable propaganda, um, noise, on Russia and Ukraine.

Residents in New York City's 'Little Odessa' neighborhood share their thoughts on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine

“There is no need to grieve, you’ll make yourself ill. After us, the deluge.” Madame de Pompadour… - Jan. 26, 2022. By George Woloshyn

Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Vladimir Putin in the 1990s, military and economic relations between Iran and Russia have improved, as their tensions with the West have intensified. One aspect of the relationship that has received little attention is their growing economic and trade cooperation involving the production, export, and import of halal meat and other products since 2015.

Thirty years after the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, tremors from that socio-political earthquake continue to reverberate through the vast terrain it once covered. An uprising in Kazakhstan earlier this month. Political strife in Belarus around its 2020 presidential election. Ongoing conflict at the Ukrainian-Russian border, more ominous by the day.

By ordering preparations to send 5,000 more U.S. troops to countries near the Russian border Jan. 23, President Joe Biden stepped up the risk of a war between the world’s two most powerful nuclear-armed states. Once again, U.S. imperialism has threatened a new military adventure in pursuit of domination, this…