What USAID does, and why Trump and Musk want to get rid of it
Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in ...
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Lukashenko: ‘A hostage of the system that he himself created’
Officially, there are five candidates, but 70-year-old Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country for more ... “He lived in the Soviet Union for more than 30 years and ...
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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.
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Soviet-era cinema transformed into culture centre in Kazakhstan
The largest Soviet-era cinema ... that the growth of the country’s cultural sector is a sign of its progress since achieving independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. “Both institutions ...
From Cuba to Brazil: How USAID became a political interference tool in various countries
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), established by former President John F. Kennedy in 1961, has ...