She was arrested, Antonina says, for just being a cook. Living in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which Russia now occupies after one of the bloodiest battles of the war, Vladislava ...

FeatureOn December 9, in the Ukrainian city of Izium, our reporters found a hundred letters written by Russian children and teenagers to their countrymen on the frontlines of the invasion of Ukraine.

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But at least you are able to receive these letters, and most importantly share your experiences in real time. A Russian poet once urged—“Do not let your soul be lazy, to not pound water in ...

Sanctions succeed only against a hedonistic nation like the white minority in the former apartheid South Africa and never against a spartan one like North Koreans, Cubans, Iranians and now Russians.

The letters described the bleak existence in his ... In that time, a number of events influential to his case happened. In February 2022, Russian detained another American – WNBA superstar ...

From there, the schoolgirl wrote a letter to him, which has now been shared by Dmitry Zakhvatov, the family’s lawyer, at his client’s request. ‘I believe that things are going to be fine and ...

A Russian judge ordered Griner ... 2022 Griner noted in the letter that she voted for Mr. Biden in 2020, the first time she voted. "I believe in you. I still have so much good to do with my ...