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Ukraine’s Iron Curtain call
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Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
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Ambitious plans to remember WWI could strain a troubled European Union
Michael Preston/Demotix/Corbis Next December, a team of Britons and a team of Germans will play soccer on a historic field in Flanders. The game will mark 100 years since the First World War’s...
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Rounding up the Nazi minions
Sean Gallup/Getty Images The Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes—set up in Germany in 1958 to investigate Nazi war criminals—is located in the small city of Ludwigsburg,...
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Behind the lines in Ukraine
(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Sviatoslav Yurash, a second-year university student with side-swept blond hair and a white cable-knit sweater, cuts a figure quite different from those who dominate the...
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Russia tightens border control on Ukrainian imports as protests continue
Gleb Garanich/Reuters KYIV – Reports indicate that the Russian Federation is once again tightening custom controls along its border with Ukraine. On Wednesday, the Association of International...
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KYIV — His nickname is “The Bear,” and he looks the part. Past several layers of security, on the second floor of the protester-occupied Trade Union Building in central Kyiv, he’s in his den napping....
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The Ping-Pong Fanatic who Changed History
By Nicholas Griffin The year was 1971. The war was Cold. The U.S. table tennis team was in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championships when the players received an unexpected invitation: to...
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KYIV – On Wednesday morning, at 4 a.m., several dozen helmet-clad men were fanned out around the northern perimeter of Kyiv’s Independence Square. Some were bent over a roaring fire, their faces caked...
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Ukraine activist tells story of ambush and captivity
KYIV — Dmytro Bulatov, 35, went missing in Kyiv on January 22. A week and a day later, the anti-government protester was found. Badly beaten, his face is marbled with bruises. He has deep wounds in...
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In the heart of Kyiv, truce gives way to more bloodshed
Vlad Sodel/Reuters On Tuesday morning, a Ukrainian-Canadian named Olena found herself running from gun-wielding security forces on the streets of central Kyiv. Olena (who asked that her last name be...
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France’s far right keeps it in the family
Matthieu Alexandre/Demotix/Corbis Carpentras—a town of 30,000 in southeastern France—is known for its quiet stateliness and its Friday morning black truffle market, but it was once a place of import: a...
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Inside Queen Elizabeth’s bedroom
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Ukraine’s day of reckoning
Konstantin Chernichkin/Reuters On March 16, citizens in the autonomous Republic of Crimea will vote to secede from Ukraine. Indeed, they will have no choice. The Crimean referendum (“so-called...
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How the West can win Ukraine
JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images Twenty-five years ago, in 1989, the Iron Curtain fell, and all was not well in central Europe. Things were grim in the Soviet republics, like Ukraine—but grimmer still...
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Nina Khrushcheva on what her grandfather would think of Putin
Photographs by Stephanie Noritz Nina Khrushcheva is the granddaughter of the former leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev. An associate professor of international affairs at the New School in...
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The hell of a perfect, cubicle-filled office
Howard Berman/Getty Images In 1958, an art professor named Robert Propst set out to design the perfect office. As head of research for the Herman Miller furniture company, Propst began to study the...
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Some protesters in Donetsk rally behind Queen Elizabeth II
A masked man holds Russian national flag above a barricade at the regional administration building in in Donetsk, Ukraine, on April 7, 2014. (Alexander Ermochenko/AP) “God Save the Queen!” As...
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Why such slow response to the Nigerian kidnapping?
AP Photo/ Gbemiga Olamikan On Sunday, in a live television broadcast, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan appealed for international help to find the 276 young girls who remain missing after being...
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Russia objects to Austrian drag queen Eurovision contestant
Sander Koning/AFP/Getty Images The Eurovision Song Contest was launched in 1954 as an effort to promote unity after the Second World War. Almost 60 years later, the kitschy pop music extravaganza—a...
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