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One week since Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine, Russia has failed to control the narrative at home and abroad.

By Ignacio Ortega Kyiv, Feb 26 (EFE).- Kyiv, a bustling European capital of 4 million people, has been turned into a ghost town. Amid air raid sirens and a curfew, the city’s residents are either fleeing or sheltering from the shelling as Russian forces close in. The eerie silence is only broken by sirens, church …

By Ignacio Ortega Moscow, Feb 13 (EFE).- As Russia continues to mount military pressure on its border with Ukraine, pacifists blame the Kremlin for bringing the Eurasian country to the brink of war. “We cannot allow a great war in the European Theater of Operations. Casualty rates among young soldiers and the civilian population would …

By Ignacio Ortega Moscow, Dec 21 (EFE).- Ultra-modern fish farming techniques could spell the end of the practice of slaughtering the prehistoric and protected sturgeon fish for its much-prized caviar, once the food of the tsars. “Sturgeons survived dinosaurs, but not man. Now, we produce both pure and hybrid species,” says Svetlana Kasaeva, deputy director …

By Ignacio Ortega Tiraspol, Moldova, Dec 4 (EFE).- No place preserves the essence of the USSR as the obscure enclave of Transnistria in Moldova, which thirty years on, still proudly displays the Soviet hammer and sickle symbol and figure of former Soviet president, Vladimir Lenin, on many state buildings. “No past, no future,” reads a …