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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Ukraine can play a key role in Europe’s future energy architecture
For the past three years, the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has served to highlight the impact of energy exports and…
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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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Canada-Ukraine Foundation joins Temerty Foundation and
TORONTO, Feb. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF) is proud to join the Temerty Foundation and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC), in supporting Team Ukraine’s training camp in advance of the upcoming Invictus…
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Interview: How Ukrainian women entrepreneurs are keeping businesses alive amid Russia’s war
“Because of the Russian full-scale invasion, we lost access to high-quality seeds from regions like Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia in the south,” Rosolovska said. “Some of our farming suppliers were displaced, others were killed,…
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A New Era of Strategic Uncertainty — Russia in Global Affairs
In a move that has sent ripples through the global economic landscape, President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose heavy tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China. The tariffs are aimed at addressing the failure of Canada and Mexico to stop illegal…
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Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages— Harvard Gazette
A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the Indo-European family of 400-plus languages, spoken today by more than 40 percent of the world’s population.
DNA evidence places them in current-day Russia during the…
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Russia’s Costly Conquest in Ukraine
Today, about 20 percent of southeastern Ukraine is under Russian occupation, including Crimea and large parts of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions. Russian President Vladimir Putin has painted the war in Ukraine as a…
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