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How Russia Recovered

What the Kremlin Is Learning From the War in Ukraine The story of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been one of upset expectations and wild swings in performance. At the start of the war, most of NATO saw Russia as an unstoppable behemoth, poised to quickly defeat Ukraine. Instead, Russia’s …

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Conference Of Islamic Clerics In Istanbul Sponsored By Qatar And Turkey Expresses Resolute Support For Hamas, Opposition To Disarming It; Calls To Mobilize All Muslims For Jihad

In August 22- 29, 2025, a high-level Islamic conference was held in Istanbul under the title “Gaza: An Islamic and Humanitarian Responsibility.” Sponsored by Turkey and Qatar and attended by 150 senior Muslim clerics from 50 countries, the conference was aimed at expressing unequivocal support for the Hamas terrorist organization …

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Bulgarians Recall Communist Dictator Zhivkov with a Smile

But it had a dark side to it, nevertheless. Some 300,000 ethnic Turks were forced to leave their homes in the 1980s, after the regime attempted to Bulgarian-ise them by force. Information about the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in the Ukraine of 1986 was concealed from the population, while debris …

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