The Veto
UN: Expert insiders reveal tensions and calls for reform at the UN, questioning its future amid great-power politics and veto abuse.
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Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare
CONFLICT: If truth is the first casualty of war, then Gregory Carleton argues that truth as an ideal in covering conflict was born during a war fought in Ukraine nearly two centuries ago.
A mother’s life and passion: Anna Politkovskaya
RUSSIA: Anna Politkovskaya’s daughter: “My greatest wish is to experience Russia as a thriving, free and developed country, not desolate, poor and militarised.”
In the desert landscape of speculation media
MEDIA: Surveys show that more than half of Germany’s population believe they receive fake news. In France, 80 percent believe the same.
A logical consequence of the Cold War?
RUSSIA: M.E. Sarotte demonstrates thorough knowledge of the Cold War – and today’s horrific continuation of it.
Leaders of the unfree world
BIOGRAPHY: One of the longest-serving German chancellors ever, Angela Merkel’s eventful tenure as a woman in a bastion of masculinity made her an anchor for Europe.
Knocking on heaven’s door
RUSSIA: Gorbachev’s twilight years captured by now exiled Russian director
Slovakia’s press freedom under fire
JOURNALISM: Uncovering a vast corruption network at the highest levels of Slovak society.
In the heart of demonstration
In The Case, Nina Guseva, a graduate of the workshop of acclaimed Russian documentary filmmaker #Marina Razbezhkina#, goes to the