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Earlier this month, hundreds of people gathered as a Russian Orthodox priest blessed a massive monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the town of Velikiye Luki. Former police officer and historian Andrei Ivanov, whose own relatives were repressed under Stalin, was one of the few to object.
Village by village, Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive is grinding forward -- but the pace is slow, and Russia is already counterattacking in some places. Worries are growing in the West about whether Kyiv can pull off a repeat of last year’s sweeping battlefield successes.
The number of high-profile Russians who have died under unusual circumstances over the years has led the world to speculate that Russian President Vladimir Putin might have been involved in at least some of them. The Russian president has turned multiple allies into enemies, including Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was reportedly killed on Wednesday as a passenger on a private jet that crashed north of Moscow.
Belarusian opposition politician Palina Sharenda-Panasyuk was at home in the western city of Brest in January 2021 when ...
Understaffed and undersupplied sappers have not yet cleared 1 percent of the beleaguered Kharkiv region’s estimated 12,400 square kilometers of mined territory. And as Russia increases its barrage on the region, more mines could be coming.