Politics (Page 523)

UK government/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Following her release from detention in Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, held hostage since 2016, said: “what happened now should have happened six years ago”. She was referring to the fact that her release had been secured at the same time as the British government paid Iran aContinue Reading

Vladimir Putin invoked history to justify his country’s invasion of Ukraine. To cement that message at home, his regime is feeding domestic audiences propaganda insisting that the Russian army fights “against Nazism” across the globe. In a bid to ensure this message takes root among the country’s youth, Russia’s MinistryContinue Reading

Concerns are mounting that Russian invading forces are seeking to push into western Ukraine, after the region of Lviv was subjected to missile strikes fired from the Black Sea on March 18. Lviv lies 550km west of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv and its residents have been preparing for war forContinue Reading

Painted on the side of tanks and emblazoned on the shirt of Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak, the letter Z has come to represent support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It has even been incorporated into the spelling of place names such as КуZбасс in south central Russia. In some countries,Continue Reading

US president Joe Biden has labelled Russian president Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” for the way the war in Ukraine is being carried out. Experts collating the numbers of casualties in Ukraine report that Russia is failing to acknowledge it has killed civilians in its military action, just as itContinue Reading

Ireland logged almost 64,000 new cases of Covid-19 over the extended bank holiday weekend. Figures covering the period from Thursday of last week to this Monday show a total of 63,954 cases registered through both PCR and antigen tests. The latest figures for Monday show 4,024 cases confirmed by PCRContinue Reading

No one knows what is going to happen to all the animals at Ukraine's zoos. Shutterstock Details are starting to emerge on how Ukraine’s zoos are coping with the war. Some of the animals including lions, tigers and wild cats have been rehomed to zoos in Poland but this isContinue Reading

Map of the Soviet Union and its republics (1939) Alexander S. Grigorovich In Ukraine’s ongoing negotiations with Russia over its invasion, Vladimir Putin seems to be aiming at the very least to retain Crimea for Russia and ensure recognition for the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics. These breakaway states claimContinue Reading