August 3, 2022

Ukraine News Live: Russia “Creates Army Strike Force in Zelenskyy’s Hometown”; Europe’s largest nuclear power plant “completely out of control”; Putin’s friend raises hopes for ceasefire

Ukraine is the newest, as the former German chancellor, who visited Vladimir Putin last week, said Russia was seeking a negotiated solution to the war; The Ukrainian attack means it is “very likely” that the rail link with Crimea will be rendered unusable.

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Guest column: What Putin’s war in Ukraine and LGBTQ rights mean for Russian culture

Russian filmmakers had done their best to identify new foreign cultural relations and integrate our country into a global art world. Vladimir Putin dug up the axe and buried all the efforts of our national talents. On February 24, President Putin declared war on Ukraine in every name. But the war [. . . ]

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Italy does rule out poisoning in case of former best friend of Putin who rescued Russia

Mikhail Svetlov/Getty The Italian government has not yet ruled out poisoning in the case of a self-exiled senior Kremlin official who suddenly fell ill over the weekend and had to be hospitalized. The sudden departure of Anatoly Chubais from Russia in March, early in Vladimir Putin’s so-called “army special operation” against Ukraine was widely noted as a sign of opposition to the war through the influential Kremlin member. He has never publicly explained the reasons for his departure, but Bloomberg ci

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The miscalculations and missed opportunities that brought Putin to Ukraine

Clinton was equally optimistic. Putin, he said, “has had a very smart start. “Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called him a “Russian patriot” and Clinton’s successor, George W. Bush found that his help after September 11 was simply “incredible. . . Russian generals even told their American counterparts their reports on the invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s. . . I appreciated his willingness to go beyond the suspicions of the past.

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