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Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Beijing on Tuesday where he is scheduled to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The meeting is taking place on the sidelines of China’s Belt and Road Forum as the country marks 10 years since it launched its global development project. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Daniel Ofman who joins him from Riga, Latvia.
The impact of the war between Hamas and Israel is already reverberating around the globe. In Eastern Europe, some are asking whether the conflict will affect the war in Ukraine. Moscow’s and Kyiv’s responses to the fighting in the Middle East have been starkly different as The World’s Daniel Ofman has been finding out.
Crimean Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group, predominantly Muslim, and they have called Crimea their homeland for centuries. Large numbers of Tatars were forcibly relocated to Central Asia by the Soviet Union after World War II. And many returned to Crimea decades later. Now, Tatars who fled after Russia's 2014 invasion and illegal annexation of Crimea, say they will one day
After the former commander of the mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, staged a failed coup and later died in a plane crash, the fate of the group became a huge question mark. But last week Vladimir Putin held a well-publicized meeting with Andrei Troshev, one of Prigozhin's top deputies, and put him in charge of volunteer fighting groups in Ukraine. The World's Daniel
At colleges and universities, Eastern European, Slavic and Central Asian humanities and political science departments have long centered their scholarship on Russia. And in order to get a job in these departments, you had to have studied Russian and Russian history. That left out scholars who focus on Ukraine. Daniel Ofman reports that with the war in Ukraine, academic