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In Bakhmut
Hugh Barnes watches a funeral on TV It was a Monday in September and all eyes were glued to a televised funeral. But the ceremony was taking place a thousand miles away from Westminster Abbey, at the National Opera House in Kyiv, mourning the loss of a 47-year-old Ukrainian ballet dancer. Oleksandr Shapoval, its principalContinue reading “In Bakhmut”
In Chuhuiv
Green Socialist editor Hugh Barnes on Putin’s threats
Digital Army
He didn’t look a lot like Che Guevara but he drove a diesel van from Warsaw to Lviv to pick up guns. Now it was a question of getting them out of quiet seclusion.
Homage to Ukraina
In Kharkiv Drawing by John-Paul Flintoff
Putin’s savvy genius
James Bond Scotland Yard Special Report from Bucha
George Blake (1922-2020)
The Last Man
Nenets nightmare
Ada Wordsworth looks at what the climate crisis means for Russia’s reindeer herders THE indigenous Nenets people are nomads living in the icy tundra of Russia’s far north. For a thousand years Nenets reindeer herders have migrated to summer pastures on the Yamal Peninsula above the Arctic Circle, returning south in winter. This 800-mile journeyContinue reading “Nenets nightmare”
Inside the siege of Ukraine’s cities