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Yuri Maltsev / Reuters Putin Will Win, But the Show Must Go On
The Russian president is poised for another term—and conflict with the West has done wonders for his popularity.
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Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters Why Venezuela's Opposition Has Stalled Out
Years of failure have planted a deep sense of malaise among those seeking an end to the Maduro regime.
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Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters Gentrification, Post-Soviet Style
Moscow seeks to finally leave behind an architectural vestige of its communist past, but at a high cost to its residents.
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Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters The Time Is Ripe for Détente 2.0, Cont'd
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Time Is Ripe for Détente, 2.0
When it comes to the dangers of unchecked NATO expansion, Trump was right.
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Maxim Smeyev / Reuters The World According to Russia
A documentary on state television gives a glimpse of Vladimir Putin’s philosophy.
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Toby Melville / Reuters Can Religion and Science Coexist?
A new book by the evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne tackles arguments that the two institutions are compatible.
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Jorge Silva / Reuters The Accidental Face of Venezuela's Opposition
President Nicolas Maduro's strategy of jailing political opponents has empowered a former kite-surfing champion.
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Fabio Sabatin/Getty Fyodor’s Guide
Revisiting Dostoyevsky’s St. Petersburg haunts in the Putin era
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Joshua Lott/Reuters The Seething Anger of Putin's Russia
How U.S.-Russian relations became so dysfunctional—and dangerous
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David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters Is Femen Dying?
The radical feminist movement struggles to survive in France.
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White House/Reuters The Way Out of the Ukraine Crisis
U.S. leaders need to talk to the Russians, not threaten them.
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Dmitry Neymyrok/Reuters 10 Tough Questions Obama Needs to Answer on Ukraine
The president should spell out what he is ready to do if Putin strikes again.
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Reuters Topless Jihadis: Inside the World's Most Radical Feminist Movement
“They all had masks on. One guy was waving around a huge knife. They took us into the woods and made us strip topless, and gave us a swastika poster to hold. Now they will kill us for sure, I thought.”
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Really Listening to Atheists: Taking Nonbelief Seriously
When Larry Alex Taunton talked to young atheists about why they left Christianity, he interpreted their objections as matters of style, not substance. That's not accurate or fair.
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Topless Jihad: Why Femen Is Right
The radical feminist group has ignited human-rights debates we need to have.
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Subject of Femen's Topless Jihad Questions the Group's Tactics
The Tunisian woman who sparked the feminist group's nude protest last week says it was the wrong approach. But was she speaking freely?
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Tunisian Woman Sent to a Psychiatric Hospital for Posting Topless Photos on Facebook
Amina, a 19-year-old who hoped to join the radical protest group Femen, is also threatened with death by stoning.
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The Woman Behind Femen's Topless Protest Movement
Whether she's railing against the Catholic hierarchy or battling social conservatives, Ukrainian activist Inna Shevchenko's feminism is a contact sport.
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Femen in Paris: Ukraine's Topless Warriors Move West
In France, members of the protest group have been beaten and detained, but they're using the experience to train for a bigger challenge.
