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7 days ago

The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism ⊖⊖

Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection

Kaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, asked…

32 days ago

There Was, There Was Not review – how four women’s dreams are destroyed by the shock of war

Emily Mkrtichian’s feature debut was shot in the now defunct republic of Artsakh, a tender, intimate meditation on the impermanence of life

With a title taken from the traditional opening phrase of Ar…

33 days ago

Orphans of history: the forgotten republic of Transnistria – photo essay

Photographer Didier Bizet has spent time documenting life in the self-proclaimed autonomous republic, which is not recognised by the international community. Its status raises complex questions about…

42 days ago

65 days ago

GoldenEye review – Pierce Brosnan’s ‘sexist, misogynist dinosaur’ makes his Bond movie debut

The 1995 spy adventure introduced Brosnan as 007 and Judi Dench as M – blending high-octane action with a cheeky post-Soviet self-awareness

This James Bond film from 1995, reissued for its 30th annive…

74 days ago

‘Families are dying’: an Ohio town suffering from fallout years after nuclear plant’s closure

As Trump calls for more nuclear power, Piketon, the site of an enrichment facility, knows first hand its ill effects

Three years after starting work as an electrician at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusi…

82 days ago

‘We were being watched by the KGB’: how Scorpions made Wind of Change

‘A guy from our record company told me to take out the whistling. I said no way. When the song went through the roof, he came to me, bent over and said, “Kick my ass!”’

Being a West German band made p…

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