Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina won her fourth match at the Australian Open on Jan. 20, defeating Russian neutral Veronika Kudermentova.
Svitolina is the only Ukrainian to reach the quarterfinals in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to that, the…
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‘Altrincham Football Club has given me everything after fleeing Ukraine war’
Robin Grey & Gemma SherlockBBC News, Manchester
BBCVlad Shtyhilan moved to Altrincham with his family from Ukraine A budding footballer has said he had lost all hope of realising his sporting dream when war broke out in his home country, Ukraine.
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Why Did The Vikings Cease Their Expeditions To North America After Establishing Early Settlements? » ScienceABC
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The Vikings stopped sending expeditions due to the unsustainable settlements, hostile relations with indigenous peoples, and climate change.
The Vikings, legendary for their seafaring prowess and exploration, stand out in history for…
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Trump — More Like Gorbachev Than Deng? — Russia in Global Affairs
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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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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Senate begins to vet Trump’s key Ukraine-related picks
The US Senate has begun vetting President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for key governing positions.
The first one to face scrutiny from the Senators is Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for chief of the Pentagon. Lloyd Austin currently holds the position. Austin is one of the key figures in…
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Putin’s worst torture camp couldn’t break him. Now he exposes Assad’s
“I came to see him one day and started explaining my idea, emphasizing how important it was to make a report but that we needed security guarantees.”
It’s not every day that someone walks into the office of Ukraine’s spy chief with an unexpected request. But that’s exactly what Stanislav…
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Ukraine holds first soccer tournament for war-wounded amputees — and plans to go international
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The players were chosen from among the thousands of Ukrainians wounded in the war. With limbs lost to Russian attacks, they gathered at a stadium in Kyiv over the weekend, ready to…
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