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Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children has been called a war crime.
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Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children has been called a war crime.

27 June 2025
According to experts from Yale University and Ukrainian groups, Russia’s forced removal of Ukrainian children during the war constitutes the largest abduction of children in a conflict since World War II. Such a violation has been described as a clear war crime.
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Opinion: Re-evaluating the idea of ‘Putinism’
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Opinion: Re-evaluating the idea of ‘Putinism’

28 May 2019
The pillars of Putinism can be routed back to a Soviet-era understanding of international relations and contested world order and see the 'westernisation' of the domestic or regional environment in the vicinity of Russia's 'sphere of key interests' as a source of concern., writes Edward Abrahamyan
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A feeling of deja vue in the Caucasus as US beats war drums on Iran
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A feeling of deja vue in the Caucasus as US beats war drums on Iran

16 May 2019
The governments in the South Caucasus are looking at developments with a sense of trepidation. All three have important trade and commercial relations with Iran, and the prospect of an all-out confrontation between the Islamic Republic and the US puts all three in a difficult position.
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Russia marks Victory Day
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Russia marks Victory Day

10 May 2019
Over 13,000 troops and more than 130 items of advanced weapon systems were involved in the Victory Day Parade in Moscow, but an aviation fly past was cancelled due to bad weather
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Zelensky: The only thing Russia and Ukraine have left in common is their state border
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Zelensky: The only thing Russia and Ukraine have left in common is their state border

3 May 2019
The Ukrainian president-elect stressed that the ban on the exports of petroleum products, the opening of passport offices for fast-track naturalisation of residents of the occupied territories, and the holding of Ukrainians in captivity do not bring the settlement of relations between the two countries any closer.
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