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Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control
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a collection about Russia and the World Cup, 2018
a look at the history, geography, politics, business and more. Travel boost: A curated list from Summit Global Education, with recommended resources to watch (read or listen to) before, during, or after your upcoming trip to Europe
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NATO and European defense: Europe is caught between Putin and Trump

Russian aggression and American wavering reveal how ill-equipped Europe is | Leaders (2024)


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Turkey Plays New Role as Business Travel Hub for Russia's Displaced Corporations

Turkey is becoming a critical business travel hub for Russia as growing numbers of corporations relocate there. (2023)


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Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race | The Economist

Never mind the moon; look to low-Earth orbit | Leaders (2023)


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The hidden costs of cutting Russia off from SWIFT | The Economist

America’s foes would rush to alternatives, hastening its financial decline | Finance & economics (2022)


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EXPLAINER: What's behind unrest rocking oil-rich Kazakhstan | AP News

MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakhstan is experiencing the worst street protests the country has seen since gaining independence three decades ago. The outburst... (2022)


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Arctic shipper shows off a historical icebreaking voyage | The Independent Barents Observer

Watch two super-powerful vessels break their way through the Northern Sea Route in mid-winter. (2021)


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JetBrains: Czech Startup Founders Turn Billionaires Without VC Help - Bloomberg

Google picked JetBrains for key coding language for Android. Founders shunned VCs, bootstrapped to billion-dollar fortunes While investment fun... (2020)


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Charlemagne - Scrapping vetoes won’t help European foreign policy

The EU should heed the lesson of “The Princess and the Pea” (2020)


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Could the Soviet Union Have Survived? | History Today

We ask four historians whether the demise of one of the 20th century’s superpowers was as inevitable as it now seems. Rodric Braithwaite, Britis... (2020)


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10 of the best novels set in Russia – that will take you there | Travel

This list of novels and novellas will help you explore Russia’s vast landscapes and complex history I spent several years wandering round Russia... (2020)


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3 books reviewed - The Chernobyl Syndrome

On the night of April 25, 1986, during a planned maintenance shutdown at the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine, one of the four reactors ov... (2020)


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The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan … Stalin Did

Have 70 years of nuclear policy been based on a lie? The U.S. use of nuclear weapons against Japan during World War II has long been a subject o... (2020)


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The Surprising Story of Moscow’s Food Revolution

The capital of Russia is experiencing a culinary counter revolution. Start with a bubbling locavore scene, add a dash of Soviet nostalgia, and y... (2020)


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Melting Russian permafrost could speed up global warming and have a devastating impact on the planet

Rising temperatures are causing the frozen ground that covers large parts of the Earth to break up, adding to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (2019)


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What HBO’s “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong | The New Yorker

Masha Gessen writes about the truths and fictions of the HBO series “Chernobyl,” starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Jessie Buckley, and Emil... (2019)


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All the Nuclear Missile Submarines in the World in One Chart

Only seven countries in the entire world deploy nuclear weapons at sea, an exclusive and deadly club. (2018)


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Russia's new soccer hooligans take to the woods to fight each other - ESPN

They battle in the forest, soccer gang against soccer gang. They are the underground fighters the World Cup host doesn't want you to see... (2018)


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Russia Bans 1.8 Million Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram

Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog, banned today over 1.8 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google's cloud infrastructur... (2018)


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The Uncertain Future of the INF Treaty | Council on Foreign Relations

Backgrounder examines the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which may now be imperiled by mutual suspicion between Russia and the Uni... (2018)


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Russian athletes and the Olympics - The Economist explains

ON AUGUST 5th, during the ceremony to mark the opening of the Rio Olympics, each of the national teams will take the customary walk around the stad... (2018)


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Russia Won't Boycott Olympics Over Ban For Doping, Putin Says : The Two-Way : NPR

"Without any doubt, we will not declare any blockade, we will not prevent our Olympians from taking part," Russian President Vladimir Putin said on... (2018)


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Why Japan and Russia never formally ended the second world war - The Economist explains

VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russia's president, will make his first official visit to Japan on December 15th, where he will join Shinzo Abe in the hot springs ... (2018)



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Russian tech investors set up shop in Silicon Valley | CNBC

Drokova's new fund comes as relations between the United States and Russia remain fraught and foreign investments of all types into U.S. technology... (2018)


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Russian Money in Silicon Valley - The Atlantic

The Paradise Papers tell a story about the Kremlin’s evolving methods of manipulating the internet—and how it exported them. (2018)


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Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments - The New York Times

Leaked files show that a state-controlled bank in Moscow helped to fuel Yuri Milner’s ascent in Silicon Valley, where the Russia investigation has ... (2018)


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Building smart transport in Moscow

Moscow addressed its road and public transit congestion problems and developed one of the world’s smartest and most-used public transportatio... (2018)


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The Lure of a Better Life, Amid Cold and Darkness - The New York Times

Norilsk, once a slave labor camp, now prospers as a source of palladium. Not bad, except for the two months of darkness and temperatures of minus 8... (2018)


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Why India and Russia Were Racing to the Moon’s South Pole | WSJ

India became the first country to successfully land on the moon's south pole with its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, just days after Russia’s Luna-25 cr... (2023)


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France plans for hegemony. France and the EU, relations with Russia, China and the USA

Macron wants to give the #EU a military face and gather the con... (2023)


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NATO - Summary on a Map

The history of NATO on maps, from the end of World War II, until the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.--------Support the channel on Patreon: https://... (2023)


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Why did Russia sell Alaska to America? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Russia sell Alaska to America? (Short Animated Documentary) (2023)


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Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia

Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia (2022)


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Russia's Catastrophic Oil & Gas Problem

Russia's Catastrophic Oil & Gas Problem (2022)


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Geopolitics of the Black Sea

Turkey and Russia spent most of their histories in a bitter rivalry, fighting no less than twelve wars. Each conflict was driven by the prizes in a... (2022)


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Why Ukraine is trapped in endless conflict - Vox

The ceasefire is completely ignored. Correction: In a previous version, the Russian Empire at 2:31 did not include Finland and northern Kazakhstan ... (2018)


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The Story of Tetris

In 1984, during the Cold War, a Russian programmer named Alexey Pajitnov created something special: A puzzle ga... (2018)


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This City in Siberia Could Become the Next Silicon Valley | Bloomberg

Hello World’s host Ashlee Vance traveled to Akademgorodok to see what this science city looks like in 2016. Where the labs of yesteryear have star... (2018)


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Russia's Geography Problem

This video was based on a chapter of the book “Prisoners of Geography” by Tim Marshall. It’s the best book I’ve read so far in 2017 so I highly enc... (2017)


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Russia's Geographic Challenge

Stratfor explains the geographic impetus behind Russia's need for regional dominance and its implications for global politics. About Stratfor: Stra... (2017)


Podcast

The Vault -Seed food bank - 99% Invisible

Svalbard is a remote Norwegian archipelago with reindeer, Arctic foxes and only around 2,500 humans — but it is also home to a vault containing see... (2018)


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The Daughters of Yalta

"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young wom... (2023)


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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenits... (2021)


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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin - Kindle

Description: From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in Wor... (2018)