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Photo: Cottonbro on PexelsRequiem for GlobalizationStarting with the pandemic and then with the sanctions imposed on Russia for its unjustified and brutal attack on Ukraine, the concept of a single global market without regard to borders and distances is...

the-defeat-of-putin

Image: Ong ad Nuseewor on iStockAntonio NavalónVladimir Putin began to lose the war in Ukraine when he ordered his troops to invade something that he already controlled and invaded and that it was only a matter of time to...

putin-got-it-wrong

Photo: Sergei Ilyin/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS on tass.comRicardo Pascoe PiercePutin made the mistake of thinking that he would get Ukraine to turn its gaze towards Russia and forget about the West by massing troops on the Ukrainian...

putin-the-great

Photo: Sergei Bobylev/TASS on tass.comAntonio NavalónI have had a weakness and intellectual curiosity for the Russian soul for many years now. To find people so sentimental and violent at the same time is a difficult task. The Tsar was...

vladimir-putin-answers-questions

https://youtu.be/m6pJd6O_NT0In an NBC News worldwide exclusive, senior international correspondent Keir Simmons sits down with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for a one-on-one interview, just days ahead of a critical summit with President Biden.

the-multitude-of-ghost-cities-in-china

Photo: bpr.orgPedro Ramírez CampuzanoThere are 50 new unoccupied cities in China. We are used to tracking the history of a city from a small coterie evolving over decades and centuries to become a metropolis, not the other way around. ...