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Royal Navy Official Photographer / Imperial War Museums … Radio Atlantic: This Is Not Your Parents’ Cold War
It’s been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the war continues. How should we be thinking about what comes next?
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Getty; The Atlantic Sudden Russian Death Syndrome
It’s not a great time to be an oligarch who’s unenthusiastic about Putin’s war in Ukraine.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty How China Is Using Vladimir Putin
Xi Jinping said his country and Putin’s Russia are friends with “no limits.” The reality is more complicated.
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Maxim Dondyuk The End of the New Peace
Vladimir Putin is pushing humanity toward an era of war that might be worse than anything we have seen before. It could threaten the very survival of our species.
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Mladen Antonov / AFP / Getty How Politics Compounded a Hostage Family’s Grief
This week, Paul Whelan’s sister watched as politicians and pundits weaponized the imprisoned American’s plight.
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Barneo AG Arctic Adventurers Have a Russia Problem
The war has made it very hard to build a floating-ice camp.
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Metin Aktas / Anadolu Agency / Getty Russia’s Vindictive Rage
Ukraine is winning, but at a high cost in reprisals on civilians.
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters What Really Caused the Missile Explosion in Poland
The disturbing incident was the direct consequence of Russian aggression.
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Danielle Del Plato The Russian Empire Must Die
A better future requires Putin’s defeat—and the end to imperial aspirations.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The New Stalin Era
For the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the Kremlin today is taking the country back to the authoritarian nightmare of the past.
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Wojtek Laski / Getty When the Soviets Voted
Americans could learn something from the care that people of the U.S.S.R. took with a privilege they would hold only briefly.
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NASA The Russian Space Program Is Falling Back to Earth
The storied space superpower was already stalling. Then came the Ukraine war.
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Getty / The Atlantic Biden’s Loose Lips Make the Nuclear Threat Worse
The president’s rhetoric will encourage Putin to test American resolve.
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Serhii Mykhalchuk / AFP / Getty Russia Just Showed Why It’s Floundering in Ukraine
Indiscriminate violence reveals Putin’s powerlessness to overcome Ukrainian resistance.
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AFP / Getty Putin’s Regime Faces the Fate of His Kerch Strait Bridge
The attack on the crucial link between Russia and Crimea matters less for its tactical significance and more for what it says about the course of the war.
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Samuel Corum / Getty Should Oleksandra Matviychuk Share the Nobel Peace Prize With Russians?
Human-rights champions from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus will share the prize, given not to countries but to people working to change them.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty The President and the Bomb
Joe Biden warns Russia about the existential risk of using nuclear weapons.
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illustration by Vartika Sharma. Sources: Universal History Archive … Why Putin Made Peace With the Soviets’ Archenemies
Revisiting Russia’s brutal civil war
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María Jesús Contreras No One Wants a Pizzaburger
What Russian trolls can teach us about American voters
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The Atlantic We Must Reject Russia’s Nuclear Blackmail
And stop Putin before other dictators follow his lead.
