But Russia’s invasion has cast a shadow on the happy day. Now educational facilities across the country are racing to build bunkers and bomb shelters for returning students. As schools prepare to open their doors in September, many educators are grappling with the fact that they don’t have the ability to provide safety to pupils, […]
“The US Embassy urges US citizens to depart Ukraine now using privately available ground transportation options if it is safe to do so,” a security alert on the embassy’s website said. “The security situation throughout Ukraine is highly volatile and conditions may deteriorate without warning.” The renewed US warning comes as Russia’s unprovoked invasion of […]
Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters attend to a fire at an oil depot in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on August 2. Russian tanks near the settlement of Olenivka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on July 29. Students at a military school write letters to Ukrainian servicemen during a lesson in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 27. Firefighters rest […]
Dugin is a creature of the same decade. He emerged from fringe politics, most notably as founding member of the National Bolshevik party, political provocateurs who combined communist and fascist symbolism with a heaping dose of anti-Western sentiment. There are differing opinions on his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin now, though the ultranationalist’s teachings […]
“The murder of journalist Darya Dugina has been solved, it was prepared by the Ukrainian special services, by a citizen of Ukraine,” TASS reported, citing Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which named a woman as the perpetrator and said she had fled to Estonia after the attack. Ukraine has denied any involvement in Dugina’s killing, […]
The video clips, which appeared last week, showed the 36-year-old leader dancing with friends in a private setting. Some political opponents condemned Marin’s behavior in the videos as inappropriate for a Prime Minister. Women have been responding to this criticism by tweeting clips of themselves dancing, using the hashtag #solidaritywithsanna. “The sky is the limit […]
Zelensky said on Saturday that Russia might be planning “particularly ugly” attacks to coincide with the occasion, which will mark 31 years since Ukraine broke its ties with the Soviet Union and as the war nears its six-month milestone. “We must all be aware that this week Russia could try to do something particularly ugly, […]
A street lamp lights a resident outside partially lit block of apartments at dusk in Berlin on Tuesday, August 16. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg/Getty Images) Six months since Russia invaded Ukraine, the West’s response to the crisis has remained strong and largely united — to the surprise of many. Despite years of fractured relations during the era of […]
However, as the crisis reaches its half-year anniversary, officials across Europe are worried that the consensus could fall apart as the continent enters a bleak winter of rising food prices, limited energy to heat homes and the real possibility of recession. For the purposes of this article, CNN spoke with multiple Western officials and diplomats […]
At the age of 60, from a family of Russian military officers, his journey has been remarkable: from fringe ideologue to the leader of a prominent strand of thinking in Russia that sees it at the heart of a “Eurasian” empire defying Western decadence. He is the spiritual founder of the term “the Russian world.” […]
