The Ukrainian director of Two Prosecutors, who studied maths and AI, says although a film may be about something tragic, ‘it is still a work of art, and its form has to be harmonious’
Beijing doubles down on ambitious plans built around long‑term strategic power, while delegates question a derisory pension hike
Mark B Smith ends on a poignant note and makes a rare confession for a historian
Is the economic order under which we live even capable of providing us with basic necessities?
Donald Trump is rupturing the world order and replacing it with something else but what that may be, we do not yet know
Mikhail Zygar’s latest book revisits the figures who defined the USSR’s last years and the turbulent decades that followed
A beautifully crafted tribute to remarkable women and a howl of condemnation at a country that ‘failed them’
A garda arrived immediately to cordon off a crater in the field, then the Army was called in
We’ve inherited a strange cultural hangover from better times: the idea that the thing you do to survive should also double as your identity and source of pride
Watching The Glass Booth, we discover the subtle, complex and fascinating interplay of power and trust that mediating language orally involves
Government’s new apartment standards are so low they resemble the old Soviet blocks. And while more units may result, they won’t house more people
The young couple at the centre of this compelling film are quiet idealists given to neither grand pontification nor cinematic heroism
With the Ukraine war, Putin might have backed himself into an economic cul-de-sac
Journalist Edward Luce on his biography of ‘cold war prophet’ Zbigniew Brzezinski, the fearful state of the US today, and ‘Lilliputian’ post-Brexit UK
At a gathering in Co Meath, John Connolly addressed those whose ancestors from the Soviet Union helped defeat Nazi Germany
Unsparing depiction of life under the brutal purges of Josef Stalin’s totalitarian rule
The End, starring Bronagh Gallagher, was shot in Wicklow and seems about as far as you can get from the director’s disturbing documentaries
Dutch journalist Michel Krielaars infuses a bleak subject with verve
Soviet history specialist covers the repatriation and resettlement of millions after second World War
In 1974, ballet star Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. He talks about his cloak-and-dagger escape, war in Ukraine and Russian oppression
Making extensive use of archives, the author gives fresh details of what was going on behind the scenes during pivotal moments in 20th-century history
Malevich, Kandinksy, Tatlin, Popova and others threw themselves into the revolution with the commitment of a Lenin or Trotsky
Reviewing works by Diego Marani, François-Marie Luzel, María Bastarós, Sasha Salzmann and Anna Stern
European Union’s approach to an issue such as Gaza has been characterised more by member state division than unity
Young migrants from the former Soviet republic were accused of an attack on a concert hall in Moscow that killed 145 people
Fintan O’Toole: The centenarian embodies, perhaps more than anyone else, the failure of the United States to learn the moral lessons of the 20th century’s most catastrophic depravities
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the remarks were ‘unacceptable’
‘China has sided with Russia, politically’ says Lithuanian foreign minister
Dan Stone tracks across history and geography to unsettle easy, congratulatory cliches about anti-Semitism. He mines the shameful mass complexity of a humanity that actively permitted the Holocaust to happen
Lisa McGee’s show paid homage to a time when the music was better, the politics were more hopeful and the clothes were, well, different
Legation critical of extremism personified by fascist collaborators during second World War
Critics point to commercial links as one reason for silence on Putin’s war in Ukraine
Shock over Ukraine has seen decades-old Swedish scepticism about Nato melt away
Erdogan has said it is not yet possible for Turkey to back Finnish and Swedish entry to alliance
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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