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“It’s Disrespectful for People Abroad to Call Us Mercenaries When Here We’re Considered Heroes”: Colombian Fighters in Russia’s Full-Scale War Against Ukraine, Part II
“It’s Disrespectful for People Abroad to Call Us Mercenaries When Here We’re Considered Heroes”: Colombian Fighters in Russia’s Full-Scale War Against Ukraine, Part I
Red Fingerprints: The Soviet Legacy in the Horn of Africa
It is symbolic that the most enduring legacy of the Soviet Union on the African continent is the Kalashnikov pattern rifle.
Putin: Fascist or "Merely" Soviet? Part II
Putin’s worldview owes less to apocalyptic fascisms like Nazism than to his experiences as a young man working in the Soviet intelligence service. At base, he is a conservative whose...
Putin: Fascist or "Merely" Soviet? Part I
In many ways, Putin's regime meets the expanded definition of fascism. In recent years, Russian public discourse has become increasingly nationalistic, with Putin positioning Russia as a singular civilization locked...
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