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Talk of a new Cold War is overheated – but NZ faces complex challenges in the era of ‘strategic competition’

As the general election nears, the campaign focus so far has been almost exclusively on domestic issues. And yet, over the past two months, no fewer than five government documents have been released outlining the significant defence and security challenges the country now faces.

The Conversation

Ukrainians express fear and hope as Russia’s war rages on Independence Day

Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union on August 24, 1991.

Al Jazeera

Fifteen years after the war in Georgia, the dilemmas of the European Union in the South Caucasus

Fifteen years ago this month, while all eyes were set on Beijing for the opening of the 29th Olympic Games of the modern era, war broke out between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia. Officially part of Georgia since the country gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, it…

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China is too big for a Soviet Union-style collapse, but it’s on shaky ground

With its growth slowing, China’s future is uncertain. We should be grateful if the change is not sudden

The Guardian - UK

Melbourne 1956: The Suez Crisis, the Hungarian Uprising and Olympic boycotts

1956 was one of the most turbulent years in the post-war era. Over a period of 12 months, the world witnessed the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Budapest uprising, the Poznan revolt, the Suez affair and the Algerian war among other events. The Melbourne…

Radio France Internationale

Russia launches first mission to the moon in nearly 50 years

Launch of the Luna-25 craft to the moon on Friday was conducted without assistance the European Space Agency.

Al Jazeera

Russia hopes to pull ahead in the space race with the launch of the Luna-25 moon lander

Russia is taking a big gamble as it prepares to launch its first spacecraft to the Moon since 1976 on Friday. After decades of failed space missions, and with the war in Ukraine making it a pariah on the international stage, Russia is hoping to re-emerge as a major player…

France 24

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The grammar of commerce in a new age of geopolitics

The prevalent geo-economic scene has also led to further settlements in local currencies

The Hindu

Hiroshima attack marks its 78th anniversary – its lessons of unnecessary mass destruction could help guide future nuclear arms talks

It was 8:15 on a Monday morning, Aug. 6, 1945. World War II was raging in Japan and across Europe.

The Conversation

How the Soviets stole nuclear secrets and targeted Oppenheimer, the 'father of the atomic bomb'

“Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind and moral decisions of J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the team of brilliant scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, who built the world’s first atomic bomb. It’s not a documentary, but it gets the big historical…

The Conversation

From Khrushchev’s KGB to Putin: the deep roots of Russian influence in Africa

When Russian President Vladimir Putin develops his network of influence in Africa, he isn’t doing so at random. He is drawing on the rich history of Soviet relations with African countries that dates back to the 1960s and the efforts made by Russian spies during the Cold War to counter…

France 24

Sixty two of 111 lunar missions in last seven decades were successful: NASA database

India on July 14 launched its third mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-3, with an aim to soft land on the surface of Earth’s only natural satellite. A successful landing would make India the fourth country to achieve the rare feat after the United States, China and the Soviet Union.

The Hindu

India launches a lander and rover to explore the moon's south pole

A successful landing by the spacecraft would make India the fourth country — after the U.S., the Soviet Union, and China — to achieve the feat.

WEKU

Metal detectorists find buried WWII aircraft in Ukraine while disarming wartime bomb

The aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union in 1941 to help the Allied war effort, but they were dumped to avoid payment.

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Kallas calls for tribunal to hold Russia accountable

TALLINN -- Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas continues to emphasize the need to hold the current Russian leadership accountable for the invasion of Ukraine. Her conviction is rooted in her personal experience growing up under the control of the Soviet Union, as the northernmost Baltic state had been in the…

Daily Mirror

British WW2 fighter planes discovered buried in Ukrainian forest

The discovery has been hailed "very rare" and the craft are believed to be some of those sent from the UK to the Soviet Union to help fight Nazi Germany when they invaded in 1941

The Independent UK

What to know about India's ties with Russia

India considers Russia a time-tested ally from the Cold War era with key cooperation in defense, oil, nuclear energy and space exploration

The Conversation

The destroyed Kakhovka dam once symbolized Russian-Ukrainian harmony

Whoever destroyed it, the fall of the 67-year-old Kakhovka Dam stands as a symbol of the final death of the Soviet dream of inter-ethnic and constructive co-operation.

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Famine: the award-winning documentary banned by Russia for its reminder of a cruel past

In October last year, Russia banned a documentary depicting the famine that hit parts of the Soviet Union including Ukraine between 1921 and 1923 and revoked the film’s screening licence. Now the film is to have its UK premiere (with English subtitles) on June 22 in east London.

The Guardian - UK

Why did it take a murderous war on Ukraine for Germany to wake up to the threat from Russia?

The invasion has plunged Germany into an agonised debate about its history – this process is only just beginning, writes historian Helene von Bismarck

Tribune News Service

China’s spying in Cuba picks up where the Soviet Union left off

For a half century, America’s top geopolitical rival used a spy base in nearby Cuba to steal U.S. military secrets by listening in on phone and data communications.

Salon

Clinging bitterly to guns and religion

An iron curtain has descended on America

Al Jazeera

Ex-FBI agent Robert Hanssen who spied for Russia dies in US jail

Robert Hanssen had pleaded guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and then Russia for more than 20 years in major breach.

The Guardian - UK

Ilya Kabakov obituary

Artist whose installations drew on the everyday aesthetics of his first 50 years in the Soviet Union

The Guardian - AU

The radical rise of No Fixed Address, ‘the most controversial band in Australia’

The Indigenous rock-reggae band soundtracked protests, went behind the iron curtain and opened doors. Four decades later, frontman Bart Willoughby calls it a dream come true

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