Back then, France punched above its weight when it came to tech. The EU needs it to rediscover its taste for the cutting edge
In the 1960s, France became the third country, after the US and Soviet Uni…
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US hockey was bathed in a golden Olympic glow. Then Donald Trump and Kash Patel stepped in | Beau Dure ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The US men’s and women’s teams claimed titles at the Winter Games this past week. The warm fuzzy feelings didn’t last long though
Keeping politics at arm’s length for the US men’s hockey team’s gold-m…
7 days ago
An Unknown Woman: how I discovered a hidden tragedy tied to Russia’s most famous painting ⊕
It caused a scandal in imperial Russia, then became a staple of popular art in the USSR. But when I spied a copy of Ivan Kramsky’s portrait in the film Sentimental Value, it opened a door to an untol…
11 days ago
Cuba suspends annual cigar festival as U.S. oil blockade deepens energy crisis ⊖
The postponement comes as the island nation's communist-run government endures its biggest test since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
‘A permanent civil war in the body’: how fighting cancer helped an artist understand his Soviet youth ⊖⊖⊖
A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology
In autumn 2022, G…
30 days ago
The last man left in a Moldovan village: Laetitia Vançon’s best photograph ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
‘Dobrușa once had a population of 200. Grisa now lived there alone with his 120 ducks and other animals. The two other remaining residents were murdered by a farmer from a neighbouring village’
This w…
37 days ago
What is Nato – explained in 30 seconds ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization began in 1949 as a bulwark against the Soviet Union, but has expanded in size in the decades since
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) was created at t…
42 days ago
To transform Iran, the west needs patience not over-reach ⊖
Playing a long game paid off with the Soviet Union and a similar trajectory of regime collapse could come in Tehran
51 days ago
Ex-CIA agent Aldrich Ames convicted of spying for Soviet Union dies in prison, US officials say ○
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Ames had been head of the Soviet branch in the CIA's counterintelligence group and gave the Kremlin the names of dozens of Russians who were spying for the United States.
52 days ago
Aldrich Ames, CIA agent who spied for Soviet Union and Russia, dies aged 84 ⊖
In damaging intelligence breach, Ames admitted to passing information to Moscow for nearly a decade
Aldrich Ames, the CIA agent who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging in…