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US government says player is wrongfully detained in Russia for drug charges

Are we dealing with a freshly divided Europe, riven by the war in Ukraine, or with an ontological division between Europe and Russia?

Ukrainian communities fear midlands cavalcade a covert attempt to back Russian invasion

Threat of Russian invasion, attack and erratic leaders prompted construction of lair

Ukrainians in Ireland support group accuses Russia of distorting war history

US institure reviews satellite imagery showing two pens moved to base at start of invasion

West ramps up weapons supplies to Ukraine as fighting in east intensifies

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‘Most people are staying away from politics. This is a place . . . to be together and to help’

America Letter: First arrival of the popular bears in Washington came in the wake of Nixon’s groundbreaking visit to Beijing in 1972

‘We were told that Germans were always aggressors. Now we are going to be in that situation’

A new Irish Times investigation shows the MEPs’ outsized profile in regime-controlled media

The cruiser provided a bubble of long-range air defence for the rest of the Black Sea Fleet, as well as command and control systems

Wild Geese: Conor Doherty has embraced opportunities in Kazakhstan to further his academic career

Social media videos show cavalcade of cars flying Russian, Irish and Soviet Union flags

Opening their homes to Ukrainian refugees, Moldovans fear they may be next on Putin’s list

Moldova’s youth look to the West as population prepares for the worst from the East

Putin’s actions in Ukraine have put nuclear war back on the geopolitical agenda

Orwell Road embassy suspected of being a front for intelligence gathering since 1970s

Britain urges retention of sanctions as leverage over Putin in event of any ceasefire

Barbaric 20th-century anti-Semitism, genocide and relocation hang over Russian invasion

Russia’s vast natural resources are the envy of its neighbours and the engine of its instability

America Letter: Partnership between US and Russia at space station could be at risk

Invasion of Ukraine has sparked an exodus of young professionals to Armenia

Cape Town Letter: ANC-led government accused of fence-sitting to keep Vladimir Putin onside

Fleeing Russian liberals fear national disaster under increasingly isolated president

Four friends who meet The Irish Times in Dublin feel they cannot be silent on Putin and Ukraine

End of the Soviet Union opened the door for the biggest heist in modern financial history

The night before the war the author joked about cooking “the last borscht in Kyiv” but he didn’t believe Russia would actually invade.

US fast-food joint was a post-Soviet Union landmark in Russian capital for three decades

Ukrainian authorities in race against time to protect cultural heritage from destruction

Email on communications policy reminds worker of responsibility to ‘be impartial’

In the News : Is Putin seeking to recreate the Soviet Union or restore the Russian empire?

Pope pleads for peace as Putin says campaign in Ukraine will not end until Kyiv stops fighting

BBC World News taken off air in country as work of journalists and staff temporarily suspended

Derval O’Rourke won a rare non-Russian medal in discredited 2006 World Indoors

H&M, Nike, Volkswagen, Toyota and Apple among many brands curtailing services or operations

Soon the West will have to consider how the Russian president can be offered an off-ramp

Polish professor traces cause of current Russian invasion back to the 16th century

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