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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
Beyond "Circus": Remembering James Patterson (1933-2025) as a Poet
Patterson wrote from inside Soviet internationalism, but his best poems also exceed it, asking what it means to belong to Russia, to Africa, to Black history, and to poetry—all at the same time.
Mali 2023: How Russia Made Its Way into Malian Life
Evgeny Prigozhin is dead, but Wagner’s mercenaries remain in Mali, and give no sign of leaving any time soon.
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