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Four years ago, the world expected Ukraine to be crushed, but it has stood firm. So what now for Putin? | Rajan Menon ⊖⊖

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A quick landgrab has distorted into a complex geopolitical conflict – and even Trump’s fulminations can’t seem to make Ukrainians give in

Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine entered its fifth year on…

39 days ago

The Trump-Kennedy Center is another front in the battle for the soul of America | Charlotte Higgins ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Under Trump, the world-class centre for performing arts is one of many US cultural institutions changing beyond recognition. Will others buckle?

A year ago – just a year ago – the Kennedy Center in Wa…

74 days ago

Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center should serve as a warning to UK arts institutions | Charlotte Higgins ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Culture is not immune from the advances of the hard right – but it isn’t too late for resistance

Into the pale stone wall of the Kennedy Center, above its elegant terrace on the edge of the Potomac ri…

4 months ago

Ukraine war briefing: Snag for EU’s support of Kyiv after aid opponent wins Czech election ⊖

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Andrej Babis’s pledge to halt military aid aligns him with PMs of Hungary and Slovakia; Cubans fight in their thousands for Russia, says US. What we know on day 1,321

The prospect loomed of the EU’s s…

9 months ago

The artist Jeremy Deller can’t really draw or paint. Instead of making things, he makes things happen. And later this year, he is planning to unleash a bacchanalian festival that will be his most dar…

‘Music is never fixed in me’ … cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on surviving a ‘volcano of racism’ ○

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A remark about Rule, Britannia! led to uproar but the star musician is concentrating on the joy and power of classical music. As his first book is published, he talks to Charlotte Higgins

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11 months ago

Beset by colonial controversy, difficult finances and the discovery of a thief on the inside, Britain’s No 1 museum is in deep trouble. Can it restore its reputation?

By Charlotte Higgins. Read by Div…

12 months ago

Jokes about the president’s power grab at the Kennedy Center in Washington soon pale. This is a nakedly authoritarian move

Donald Trump’s announcement that he was installing himself as the chair of th…

So many pre-election promises: but still a cultural malaise spreads from our schools to museums, galleries and theatres

If a former director of the National Theatre says that “more harm has been done …

14 months ago

As the Long Read turns 10 we are raiding the archives to bring you a favourite piece from each year since 2014, with new introductions from the authors.

This week from 2024: When Putin invaded, a hist…

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