An 84-year-old artist, defying Moscow’s crackdown on dissent, wants his country to acknowledge misdeeds both past and present.
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Ukraine’s 15,000-Mile Lifeline
How the country’s vast rail system has helped it withstand an invasion.
With Ukraine War, Europe’s Democratic Project Takes on New Urgency
Panelists at the Athens Democracy Forum said Putin’s invasion has provided a striking example of the importance and power of the democratic idea.
Ukraine’s Top Diplomat Tries to Counter Russia’s Narrative on Africa Tour
“I arrived here and I hear, ‘Russia and Ukraine are one people,’” Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said in Senegal on the first stop of his 10-day trip across Africa.
Clashes Erupt Between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh
The simmering conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region last flared in 2020, when Russia brokered a cease-fire.
Clashes Erupt Between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh
The simmering conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region last flared in 2020, when Russia brokered a cease-fire.
At Mikhail Gorbachev’s Funeral, Russians Mourn in Silent Protest
At the funeral of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, the size of the crowds signaled the depth of the regret about the undoing of the freedoms that his tenure initiated.
For China’s Xi and Other Strongmen, Gorbachev Showed Exactly What Not to Do
Though Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms were praised in the West, the collapse of the Soviet Union schooled a generation of authoritarian rulers in the dangers of tolerating any signs of dissent or democratic yearnings.
Your Thursday Briefing
Vladimir Putin reacts to Mikhail Gorbachev’s death.
The West’s Illusions About Gorbachev and the Victory of Liberalism
As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach.