In addition to destroyed buildings, there’s an entire underground world – filled with untold numbers of artifacts, bones and ruins – that are exposed and damaged by the digging of trenches.
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When links with the past are destroyed, there is a loss of opportunity to continue a way of life, to live in the place one’s parents and grandparents lived.
Putin’s worldview echoes Russian phrase, ‘Who is not with us, is against us.’
A new history examines the failure of the Russian polity and Russian society to wean themselves off their colonialist frame of mind.
Putin’s rhetoric over Ukraine has roots in the end of the second world war, attitudes explained by Paul Winterton, a British journalist at the time.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict over the past fortnight.
The US is giving record-high amounts of money to Ukraine, signaling it is invested in this war for the long run – a political science scholar explains 3 important things to know.
Schools are a key battleground in the Ukrainian resistance against Russia’s invasion.
People understand the world through the stories they are told and tell, a historian writes. In the case of the war in Ukraine, narratives can create problems.
Ukraine is marking its 31st year of independence on Aug. 24, 2022. A scholar of protest movements explains why Ukrainians have never taken its independence for granted.
Russia’s national history and origin story remain unclear.
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Emeritus Professor of Journalism, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Sociology, Newcastle University
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Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Harvard University
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Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University
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Emeritus Professor, Ukrainian Studies, Monash University
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
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Associate Professor of Dance, Environmental Studies and Education Studies, Wesleyan University
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Professor of the Practice in Filmmaking, University of Notre Dame
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Professor of Philosophy, The Open University
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv