In my previous articles I wrote about two revolutionary processes—one affecting mostly Western liberal democracies and the other taking place in the domain of geopolitics, namely the decline of Western dominance and the end of the unipolar phase that began after…
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Wave III Report — Russia in Global Affairs
With participation of: Bogdan A. Barabash, Evgeniia S. Komarova, Khusravkhon Kh. Nabiev, Dylan P. Royce
Presenting IHES
Since 2021, a research team comprising faculty members and graduate students from MGIMO and HSE has been conducting an annual international…
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These People Will Shape the Politics of 2025 — Russia in Global Affairs
Predicting the future has become increasingly difficult. The pace of global change is so rapid that events which once unfolded over decades now take place within a single year. While the equidistance of these shifts is hard to pinpoint, there are key people, trends,…
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Gymnast Ilya Kovtun will change his sports citizenship — sports news
Ukrainian gymnast Ilya Kovtun has decided to change his sports citizenship — he will represent Croatia.
This was told to Jutarnji List by the coach of the Croatian national team Vladimir Madžarević.
At the beginning of the…
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Wish you had a better memory? — Harvard Gazette
Have you ever struggled to remember somebody’s name at a party or crammed for an exam only to blank during the test? In their 2023 book “Why We Forget and How to Remember Better,” brain scientists Andrew Budson and Elizabeth Kensinger, both Harvard alums, explain how memory works and…
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UN stands with Ukrainians for the long-term, insists UN aid chief
In a joint appeal from Kyiv, the UN’s emergency relief chief Tom Fletcher and Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said that millions of civilians inside Ukraine and abroad depend on the international community’s support,…
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Ukraine Hosts Its First-Ever Amputee Football Tournament Promoting Inclusivity — UNITED24 Media
On January 11–12, the Ukrainian Association of Football (UAF) organized the country’s first-ever amputee football tournament for amateur teams, titled the ‘Winter Cup of the League of the Mighty.’
The League of the Mighty is a social…
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Russia tries to use California fires to discredit Ukraine : NPR
An aerial view of beachfront homes that burned in the Palisades Fire in Malibu, Calif. on Jan. 15, 2025. Pro-Kremlin social…
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Venezuela restricts diplomats from ‘hostile’ European countries
Venezuela on Tuesday announced restrictions on French, Italian and Dutch diplomats on its soil, citing their governments’ “hostile” response to Nicolás Maduro’s presidential inauguration, widely rejected as a power grab.
In a move branded an…
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What the End of Ukraine Gas Transit Means for Kyiv, Moscow, and Europe
At 8 a.m. on January 1, 2025, the supply of Russian gas crossing the Ukrainian border on its way to Europe was turned off, ending a sixty-year era.
The response to the shutoff was notably calm considering that in 2009, a two-week halt in Russian…
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