US President Donald Trump has placed new conditions on further financial and military aid to Ukraine.
On Monday, he told reporters that Washington would only continue aiding Ukraine in warding off Russian aggression in exchange for access to the…
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Team Ukraine to compete in 2025 Invictus Games with largest-ever delegation
Team Ukraine is set to compete in the 2025 Invictus Games, which officially began on Feb. 8 in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada. The team, consisting of 35 injured Ukrainian soldiers—the largest Ukrainian delegation yet —…
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Looking at Trump, Europe’s far right vows to ‘reconquer’ the continent – POLITICO
“Our friend Trump, the Trump tornado, has changed the world in just a couple of weeks. An era has ended. Today, everyone sees that we are the future,” crowed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the most senior of the leaders at the…
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How War Has Wreaked Havoc on Ukraine’s Classrooms
The students meet a day a week for lessons in a tiny underground classroom that teachers call the beehive, for the buzzing of all the children packed inside.
Holding classes above ground in this part of Ukraine, in the city of Balakliya near the…
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Fyodor Lukyanov on the USA, Current Conflicts and the Future of Europe — Russia in Global Affairs
“Trump Doesn’t Care About Russia”: Fyodor Lukyanov on the New US President, Putin and the Ukraine Conflict
Fyodor A. Lukyanov
In Russia, there are people who see Trump’s ‘resurrection’ as a very important…
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Even Bill Gates thinks AI is a little scary — Harvard Gazette
Bill Gates remembers being “a tough kid.”
“Some teachers wanted to put me ahead in school; some wanted to put me behind,” said the tech pioneer, who has noted in the past that he would likely be diagnosed on the autism spectrum if growing up today. “I exercised my IQ to give my…
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How Daily Mail amplified Russian propaganda and even managed to lie more
Imagine you author an article about a hot topic like the Russo-Ukraine war and US President Donald Trump’s potential peace push that is based on another 10 days-old article that has no author and no source, twist some parts of the already disinformative article, and present it as fact to your…
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Georgia’s ruling party is building a Russian-style dictatorship — and it’s working
Nearly three months into a determined protest movement demanding snap elections, Georgia’s ruling party is resorting to increasingly heavy-handed tactics to quash resistance — and its latest moves have the country on edge as observers warn of a dangerous authoritarian turn.
The outcome will…
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What prompts genetic adaptation? Ask a finch. — Harvard Gazette
Could a novel approach to genetic studies give us a clearer picture of how evolutionary adaptations occur? That’s what the findings of new research on a common backyard bird, the house finch, imply. A groundbreaking pangenomic study has revealed a major DNA flip that appears to have made the…
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Nearly three years after the invasion of Ukraine, a retrospective
I hesitate to speak of lessons learned because we humans seem to learn little from history, or we only learn the lesson we like; nevertheless, we can draw some conclusions. Europe, with all its wealth and European Union institutions, is not ready…
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