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The crisis in Ukraine
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June 28, 2022
Finland and Sweden’s historic NATO bids, explained
Turkey dropped its opposition after striking a deal with the Nordic countries at the NATO summit, paving the way for the alliance to officially expand.
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May 17, 2022
The staggering amount of US military aid to Ukraine, explained in one chart
$9.8 billion — and that tranche for Ukraine is only part of the picture.
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April 12, 2022
When Russian troops arrived, their relatives disappeared
A local official and a journalist’s father were abducted. Their families’ stories are part of a pattern of disappearances in Russia-occupied Ukraine.
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March 11, 2022
“The alarmists were right all along”: A Moscow journalist on Putin and the new Russian reality
An independent journalist describes what life is like inside Russia’s parallel universe.
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March 10, 2022
How high can gas prices go?
The US ban on Russian imports has a modest effect, but what comes next matters more.
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March 9, 2022
How the left is reckoning with Russia’s war
Progressives are grappling with the US response — and America’s role in the world.
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March 5, 2022
How the war in Ukraine could change history
A political scientist on why the fate of the global political order hangs in the balance.
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March 3, 2022
Escaping Kyiv
One woman’s weekend in a bomb shelter and her solo journey out of the embattled capital city.
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March 1, 2022
Sanctions will have a “devastating” impact on Russia
What economic sanctions mean for Russia and the world, explained by an expert.
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March 1, 2022
Russia’s war with Ukraine — and reality
Peter Pomerantsev on whether Putin’s ability to manufacture reality may have reached its limits in Ukraine.
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March 1, 2022
The Ukraine war shows the limits of US power
America is still a superpower. But in the face of Russia, the US is not almighty.
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February 25, 2022
The Ukrainian refugee crisis has already begun
The time for the US and its European allies to act is now.
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April 19, 2019
Ukraine’s next president may be a comedian who played the president on TV
Meet Volodymyr Zelensky.
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September 2, 2014
Why Russia is invading Ukraine, in 2 minutes
Russian President Vladimir Putin crossed a major line for a reason.
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May 26, 2014
Is Putin losing control of Ukraine's rebels?
Today's battle in Donetsk suggests the insurgents may be moving away from Moscow's influence.
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May 23, 2014
Ukrainian vigilantes are shooting at separatists
Why it's very, very bad that a right-wing militia just attacked and killed some pro-Russia separatists.
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May 16, 2014
Obama's plan to let Putin hang himself is working
Putin may have been defeated in Ukraine by his own over-reach — with some assistance from the US.
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May 8, 2014
This chart is good news for Ukraine, bad for Putin
Even Russian-speaking eastern Ukrainians don't want to follow Crimea in seceding.
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May 5, 2014
Putin's stereotypes of Europe, mapped
"Union of Incestual Homosexuals" is probably not far-off from Putin's view of the European Union.
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May 2, 2014
The Simpsons predicted the Ukraine crisis in 1998
This 16-year-old clip from the show is surprisingly effective at explaining today's crisis.
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April 28, 2014
If Obama were brutally honest about Russia
Here's the speech the president might give if he popped a couple of truth pills and addressed the nation tonight.
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April 25, 2014
This chart shows why Ukraine won't have civil war
The simple truth is that eastern Ukrainians don't want to fight.
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April 24, 2014
A clear guide to the three risks of war in Ukraine
Russia is playing up the risk of a war with Ukraine or a Ukrainian civil war, but another sort of conflict is much likelier.
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April 21, 2014
Obama's tough new plan for dealing with Russia
The US's "new containment" Russia strategy is the toughest in 20 years, but at a price.