Can Moldova – population 2.4m – show the world how to stand up to Putin?

found 2025 › Feb › 23 (Sun) @ 09:09 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The tiny former Soviet republic’s determination not to be cowed by the Kremlin could provide a template for the west on how to hold back the tide of subversion and corruption

How can a democracy defen…

Russia asked US for Nato withdrawal from eastern Europe, says Romania

found 2025 › Feb › 20 (Thu) @ 19:35 UTC

a story from Financial Times › Financial Times

Moscow’s demand during Riyadh talks rejected but allies fear Donald Trump could yet allow restoration of former Soviet bloc

Authoritarian leaders in former Soviet bloc seize on Musk’s USAid crackdown

found 2025 › Feb › 12 (Wed) @ 18:18 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Region’s autocrats join in persecution of agency that provided aid and helped to build up civil society in 1990s

Across the former Soviet bloc, rightwing and autocratic governments have their knives o…

Baltic Nations Switch Off Russian Power Grid

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 13:57 UTC

a story from The Moscow Times › The Moscow Times

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — all former Soviet republics now in the EU and NATO — are leaving Russia's grid to prevent Moscow from weaponizing it against them.

Baltic states sever last power links to Russia

found 2025 › Feb › 07 (Fri) @ 06:20 UTC

a story from Financial Times › Financial Times

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania switch to EU network after 80 years with former Soviet ruler

Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’

found 2025 › Jan › 30 (Thu) @ 06:47 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past?

After the second world war, Germany’s contrition and radical self-cleansing, und…

Revisited: Life after Auschwitz – podcast

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 16:49 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Revisited: Ivor Perl and Susan Pollack were 12 and 13 when they were transported to Auschwitz. On the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation, we revisit a podcast we published markin…

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025 – in pictures

found 2025 › Jan › 27 (Mon) @ 20:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Eighty years on from the day Soviet troops arrived at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, survivors, international heads of state and dignitaries gathered at the site in Poland where more than…

Life after Auschwitz – podcast

found 2025 › Jan › 27 (Mon) @ 20:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Revisited: Ivor Perl and Susan Pollack were 12 and 13 when they were transported to Auschwitz. On the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation, we revisit a podcast we published markin…

The horror of Auschwitz in pictures: Images taken during death camp's liberation 80 years ago show skeletal survivors, mountains of possessions and the Nazis' attempts to cover up mass murder

found 2025 › Jan › 27 (Mon) @ 14:26 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

These were the horrific scenes that met the Soviet 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front as they opened the gates of Auschwitz in what had been Nazi-occupied Poland