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Vladimir Putin’s imperial ambitions in Ukraine, dressed up for domestic consumption as a “military operation” to “de-Nazify” the country, have sent a shiver of apprehension through the rest of the region. In Moldova, particularly, where the small breakaway enclave of Transnistria gives Russia a foothold, many fear their country couldContinue Reading

Sarina Wiegman will miss England’s final Group A game after testing positive for Covid-19. The FA says the Lionesses’ head coach will undergo a period of recovery at the squad’s base for the Euros. Sarina Wiegman will miss her team’s clash with Northern Ireland tonight after testing positive for CovidGettyContinue Reading

A map of the former USSR.

Russian president Vladimir Putin’s increasingly explicit imperial ambitions to reconstitute a Russian empire from the ashes of the Soviet Union has raised considerable fears among former members. The only former USSR state that has fully endorsed and supported the Russian campaign against Ukraine is Belarus, where President Alexander Lukashenko remainsContinue Reading